Greg Jenner is joined by Professor Marlene Daut and comedian Athena Kugblenu to examine the events and aftermath of the 18th century revolution in Haiti, the first nation to abolish slavery. We look at the life of revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture, confront the atrocities committed against the people of Haiti and the literal price they were forced to pay for their freedom. A Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4.
My name's Joe Wilkinson, and I've managed to force Patrick Bamford to come on a podcast with me, and he's gonna slowly fall in love with me.
Do you go to the tip?
Believe it or not, yeah, I do.
Do you go to the supermarket?
No.
You know when all the shirts started getting tight on the players and they started selling them like that to the general public?
Yeah, yeah.
And everyone looked like sausages.
My mate's a footballer with me, Patrick Bamford and Joe Wilkinson.
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Hello and welcome to you're dead to me, a history podcast for everyone.
For people who don't like history, people who do like history, and people who forgot to learn any at school.
My name is Greg Jenner.
I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster.
I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.
And I do another podcast called Homeschool History, but that one's mostly for kids.
This podcast is a bit different.
Here we bring together historical hotshots and clever comedians so we can chat and you can learn some stuff.
And today we are jumping back over 200 years and jetting off to the Caribbean, not for a luxury holiday, but to learn all about the haitian revolution and how Haiti was the first modern nation to abolish slavery.