History Cafe

De: Jon Rosebank Penelope Middelboe
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  • True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...

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  • #59 The crimes of the rector George Wilson Bridges - Ep 5 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

    #59 The crimes of the rector George Wilson Bridges - Ep 5 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
    Mar 12 2025
    By 1832 it was clear to both the House of Lords and the Commons that the British planters in the Caribbean were dragging the British economy into a credit crash. It looks to us very like the crash of 2008. The Jamaican Rebellion of 1831 and the vicious retaliation by rector George Wilson Bridges and his white supremacist Colonial Church Union in 1832 was the final nail in the coffin of British enslavement. The CCU showed beyond doubt that the Jamaican planters, who had always dominated the West Indian planters lobby in London, were a breed of racist thug who flatly refused to make conditions tolerable on their plantations. But the result was that they would never be commercially viable. Abolition became the obvious solution. (R)

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    41 m
  • #58 The ship that sank and took the slave trade down with it - Ep 4 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

    #58 The ship that sank and took the slave trade down with it - Ep 4 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
    Mar 5 2025
    When the HMS Lutine went down, 9 October 1799 off the Dutch coast, carrying a million pounds of gold and silver, it led to the collapse of the Hamburg sugar market and within a few years the banning of the slave trade. (R)

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    37 m
  • #56 The Empire strikes back - Ep 3 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

    #56 The Empire strikes back - Ep 3 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
    Feb 26 2025
    We look at a map of the British Caribbean to understand why losing the British north American colonies after 1783 mattered to British enslavement. We explore how the trade winds had helped create the four-cornered ‘triangle’ of the British slave trade involving North America, Africa, England and the British Caribbean – and how this doesn't work once this section of the 'Empire' - the North American States - strikes back and becomes 'out of bounds' for British trade. And we begin to see why the British government, having fought at great expense to protect the British Caribbean in the American War of Independence, began to isolate the British planters in the Caribbean and favour the East India Company instead. (R)

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