Slavery podcast episodes

Suzanne Schwarz answers your key questions about the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Hannah Durkin tells the story of the survivors of Clotilda, the last ship to transport enslaved people from Africa to America

Mary Wills shares the exploits and issues of the West African Squadron, a British naval taskforce charged with hunting down slave ships

Ilyon Woo shares the extraordinary story of Ellen and William Craft, an enslaved couple who launched a dramatic escape

Nicholas Radburn examines the ruthless practices of the men who made the 18th-century trans-Atlantic slave trade possible

Scott Shane shares the tale of Thomas Smallwood, a formerly enslaved man and shoemaker who helped hundreds of people to flee from southern slavery in the 1840s

Thomas Harding discusses a little-known uprising by enslaved people in the British colony of Demerara in 1823

Kristen Green delves into the story of Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who became a founder of one of the first historically black colleges and universities in the US

Alex Renton shares the story of his own family’s involvement in the slave trade, and considers how best to deal with this unwanted inheritance

Vincent Brown discusses an uprising in Jamaica that was the largest slave revolt in the 18th-century British Atlantic world

Marjoleine Kars discusses a little-known 1763 rebellion by enslaved people in Berbice, in present-day Guyana

Teachers Richard Kennett and Tom Allen discuss a new textbook on the transatlantic slave trade and its impact on the city of Bristol