The Grand Model - Older Than Writing

American Political History · Oct 16, 2021 · 31m

Before we can understand what Carolina became, we have to understand the thing the Barbadians carried onto its shore — and it is far older and far stranger than the story usually told. This episode steps back from the colony to look at slavery itself: an institution practiced on nearly every inhabited continent, by nearly every civilization in recorded history, and experienced by almost none of them as wrong. It was the order of things. And the key to why it looked so different from place to place — a Roman galley at one extreme, a half-absorbed captive at the other — turns out to be a single…