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The Enslaved Architects of the British Empire
We often imagine the Atlantic Slave Trade as a series of brutal transactions between European merchants and African kings, but this episode shifts the lens to the people who actually built the infrastructure of empire: the enslaved Africans themselves. We explore how figures like Olaudah Equiano used their forced labor and hard-won freedom to dismantle the very system that bound them, while also examining the lesser-known role of skilled enslaved artisans in constructing London’s docks and Caribbean sugar mills. Through the story of James Somerset and the legal battles that followed his…
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