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The Taking: Toubob - White Men Who Chose Greed
Last episode we stood in the home they took us from. Now meet the men who came to take it. West Africans had a word for them: toubob. This episode asks one question — did they stumble into evil, or did they choose it? We follow the record: twelve people seized in 1441, then 235 sold in the open at Lagos in 1444; the Pope's 1452 order granting permission "to reduce their persons into perpetual servitude" — slavery with no end date; Elmina Castle, built in 1482 for gold, not people; São Tomé, the island rehearsal where the plantation machine was invented; John Hawkins sailing with the Queen of…
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