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The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Atlantic slave trade was not a single enterprise but a centuries-long, globe-spanning system that transformed economies, cultures, and human lives across Africa, the Americas, and Europe. This show examines the trade from its 15th-century origins under Portuguese and Spanish colonization through its peak in the 18th century and its eventual abolition in the 19th century. Lucas and Luna guide listeners through the brutal Middle Passage, the rise of plantation economies in Brazil, the…
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The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo HistoryThe 1820 Slave Trade Act: How the US Made Slave Trading Piracy
The 1820 Slave Trade Act classified the international slave trade as piracy, punishable by death. This episode follows the legislative battle led by figures…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1837 Tortola Slave Conspiracy: A Plot That Never Was
In 1837, just three years after the British Empire abolished slavery in its colonies, the small island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands was shaken by…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1830s Cuban Plantation Expansion: How Sugar Fueled the Slave Trade
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the explosive growth of Cuba's sugar industry in the 1830s and how it reshaped the Atlantic slave trade. They dive…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1739 Stono Rebellion: South Carolina's Bloodiest Slave Revolt
In September 1739, about twenty enslaved Kongolese people near the Stono River in South Carolina gathered under a banner and marched south toward Spanish…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1843 Mutiny on the Creole: US Slaves Who Freed Themselves in the Bahamas
In November 1841, the American slave brig Creole left Richmond, Virginia, bound for New Orleans with 135 enslaved people in its hold. Madison Washington, a man…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
Ouidah: The Slave Coast's Most Feared Fort
In Episode 92 of The Atlantic Slave Trade, Lucas and Luna explore the rise of Ouidah, the Dahomean port that became the epicenter of the Slave Coast. They…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1674 Capture of the Golden Galley: A Pirate Slave Ship
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the story of the Golden Galley, a pirate ship that was captured off the coast of West Africa in 1674 with a cargo of…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1694 Capture of the Henrietta Marie: Slave Ship Wreck
In 1700, the slave ship Henrietta Marie sank off the Florida Keys, carrying a cargo of iron shackles, beads, and elephant tusks. Discovered in 1972, the wreck…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1756 Trial of Captain Kimber: A Slave Ship Captain Convicted of Murder
In January 1756, Captain John Kimber of the slave ship Recovery was tried at the Old Bailey for the murder of a 15-year-old enslaved girl. Kimber had ordered…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1752 Massacre at Calabar: Old Calabar and the Slave Trade
This episode of The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering explores the 1752 massacre at Old Calabar, a devastating event that exposed the…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Saltwater Middle Passage: Akan Captives on the Danish Coast
Lucas and Luna trace the forgotten Danish slave trade from the Gold Coast to the Caribbean. They explore the Christiansborg Castle in present-day Ghana, where…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1781 Zong Massacre: Insurance Fraud and the Slave Trade
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the 1781 Zong massacre, one of the most infamous events in the history of the Atlantic slave trade. When the slave ship…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1831 Mutiny on the Prince of Orange: A Slave Revolt in the Atlantic
In 1831, the slave ship Prince of Orange set sail from Havana with over 200 enslaved Africans bound for the sugar plantations of Cuba. But before the ship…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1817 Fort Blount Massacre: Apalachee Resistance in Spanish Florida
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the 1817 Fort Blount Massacre, a brutal but little-known episode in the history of the Atlantic slave trade. They trace…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1863 New York City Draft Riots: Race and Rage
In July 1863, the largest civil insurrection in American history erupted not in the South but in New York City. The Enrollment Act of 1863, which allowed…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Middle Passage: Life and Death in the Slave Ship Hold
This episode of Fexingo History takes you inside the brutal reality of the Middle Passage—the journey that carried millions of enslaved Africans across the…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1693 Cartagena Slave Revolt: Palenque Liberty in New Granada
In 1693, a carefully planned uprising by enslaved Africans in Cartagena de Indias shook the Spanish colonial port and led to the creation of one of the most…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1832 Mutiny of the Robert and the Slave Trade in Cuba
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the 1832 slave ship mutiny aboard the Robert, a Spanish schooner carrying over 200 enslaved Africans from the Congo to…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1811 German Coast Uprising: Louisiana's Largest Slave Revolt
In January 1811, along the Mississippi River in the Territory of Orleans, dozens of enslaved men rose up in what would become the largest slave revolt in…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1723 Elizabeth Mutiny: An Atlantic Slave Revolt Aborted
In 1723, the slave ship Elizabeth left the Gold Coast for Barbados with a cargo of over 200 captives, mostly Coromantee from the Akan region. Twenty-three men…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1839 Amistad Rebellion: Captives Who Won Their Freedom in Court
The 1839 Amistad rebellion was a watershed moment in the Atlantic slave trade. Fifty-three Mende captives, led by Sengbe Pieh (known as Joseph Cinqué), seized…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1816 Barbados Slave Revolt: Bussa's Rebellion in the British Caribbean
This episode of The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering turns to the 1816 Barbadian slave revolt known as Bussa's Rebellion. Lucas and…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1787 Dolben Act: Britain's First Anti-Slave Trade Law
Long before Wilberforce, a forgotten bill limited the number of enslaved people per ship. In 1787, MP Sir William Dolben pushed through the Slave Carrying Bill…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1723 Slave Mutiny on the Elizabeth: A Caribbean Revolt Aborted
In 1723, the slave ship Elizabeth left the Gold Coast for Barbados with 143 captives. Three days out, the Africans broke their shackles, seized weapons, and…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Slave Trade in the Gambia River Region
This episode of The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering takes listeners deep into the Gambia River region, a major but often overlooked…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1713 Asiento: Britain's Slave Trade License to Print Money
In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht ended the War of Spanish Succession and granted Britain a thirty-year monopoly—the asiento—to supply enslaved Africans to…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Slave Trade in the Bight of Benin: Dahomey's Warriors and the Slave Coast
Lucas and Luna dive into the Slave Coast of West Africa, focusing on the Kingdom of Dahomey and its unique role in the Atlantic slave trade. They explore…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1739 Stono Rebellion: South Carolina's Bloodiest Slave Uprising
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the 1739 Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in colonial British America. They trace the revolt's origins…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1807 Abolition Act: Britain's Double Game
In 1807, Britain outlawed the slave trade—but enforcement was another story. This episode follows the parliamentary battle led by William Wilberforce and…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1704 Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: Slave Ship Archaeology
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of the Henrietta Marie, a slave ship that sank off the Florida Keys in 1704 after delivering its human…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Slave Trade in the Bight of Biafra: Akan and Igbo Diaspora
In this episode of The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering, Lucas and Luna explore the often-overlooked region of the Bight of Biafra, which…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Congolese Origins of Atlantic Slave Trade Warfare
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the role of African political structures in the Atlantic slave trade, focusing on the Kingdom of Kongo and its complex…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Maroons of Jamaica: Guerrilla Wars for Freedom
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the untold story of Jamaica's Maroons — escaped Africans who forged independent communities in the island's…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1814 Treaty of Ghent and the Illegal Slave Trade
In this episode of The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering, Lucas and Luna explore the overlooked connection between the War of 1812 and the…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act and the North's Complicity
In Episode 63 of The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering, Lucas and Luna explore the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 — a federal law that forced…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1820s Anglo-Brazilian Anti-Slave Trade Patrols and Their Legacy
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the little-known story of the British Royal Navy's anti-slave trade patrols off the coast of West Africa and…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1843 Creole Revolt: Slave Ship Rebellion on the US Coast
In 1841, the brig Creole was transporting 135 enslaved people from Virginia to New Orleans when the captives rose up, seized the ship, and sailed it to freedom…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean: Zanzibar and the Clove Islands
This episode turns from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean world, exploring the East African slave trade that ran through Zanzibar and the Swahili Coast. Lucas…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
Cuba's 1833 Slave Conspiracy: La Escalera Revealed
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the 1843-44 La Escalera conspiracy in Cuba, a brutal episode of repression that crushed a suspected slave uprising…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1760 Tacky's War: Jamaica's Largest Slave Revolt Before Haiti
Tacky's War, also known as the 1760 Easter Rebellion, was the largest and most coordinated slave uprising in the British Caribbean before the Haitian…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
Brazil's Stepping Stone: The Slave Trade from Angola to Rio de Janeiro
The transatlantic slave trade didn't just connect Africa to the Caribbean and North America. By the 18th century, the Portuguese colony of Brazil had…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1791 Haitian Revolution: The Only Successful Slave Revolt
In this episode of The Atlantic Slave Trade, Lucas and Luna explore the Haitian Revolution—the only successful slave revolt in history. They focus on the…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1831 Baptist War: Jamaica's Christmas Rebellion
In this episode, Lucas and Luna delve into the 1831 Baptist War, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, which was the largest slave uprising in Jamaican…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Middle Passage: Hell on the Slave Deck
Lucas and Luna dive into the most notorious leg of the transatlantic slave trade: the Middle Passage. They trace the journey from African coast to Caribbean…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1839 Amistad Rebellion: Mende Captives in the Atlantic
In 1839, fifty-three Africans led by Sengbe Pieh (known as Joseph Cinqué) seized the schooner La Amistad off the coast of Cuba, sparking a legal and political…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1823 Demerara Slave Rebellion: Betrayal on the Eve of Emancipation
In 1823, a carefully planned slave rebellion in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana) was betrayed from within. This episode explores the uprising led by…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Slave Trade in Angola: Queen Nzinga and the Imbangala
In this episode of The Atlantic Slave Trade, Lucas and Luna explore the often-overlooked role of Angola—the single largest source of enslaved Africans for the…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Zong Massacre: Insurance, Murder, and the Law
In November 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 132 enslaved Africans thrown overboard to their deaths—not in a storm, not in a revolt…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1839 Lemba Slave Revolt: Angolan Resistance in Cuba
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the 1839 Lemba slave revolt in Cuba, a largely overlooked uprising led by a Congo-born slave named Lemba. They discuss…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1823 Demerara Slave Rebellion: Betrayal on the Eve of Emancipation
In August 1823, over 10,000 enslaved Africans on the sugar plantations of Demerara (modern-day Guyana) rose up in what became the largest slave rebellion in…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1794 Polish Uprising: Kosciuszko's Fight for Freedom
In this episode, Lucas and Luna delve into the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising, a pivotal but often overlooked chapter in the struggle for Polish independence. They…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1763 Cuffy Rebellion in Berbice
In February 1763, a slave revolt unlike any before erupted in the Dutch colony of Berbice, on the Caribbean coast of modern Guyana. Led by a Coromantee man…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Hidden Toll: African Women in the Slave Trade
The transatlantic slave trade is often told through the experiences of men, but women were subjected to unique horrors and forms of resistance. In this…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Slave Trade in Senegambia: French, Wolof, and the Forts of Goree
This episode shifts focus to the Senegambia region, a major source of enslaved Africans for the Atlantic trade, yet often overshadowed by the Bights of Benin…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1739 Stono Rebellion: South Carolina's Bloody Uprising
In September 1739, about 20 enslaved people from Kongo, many of them Catholic, gathered near the Stono River in South Carolina. They seized firearms, killed…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1812 Aponte Rebellion: Cuba's Secret Slave Conspiracy
In 1812, Cuba came closer than ever to a full-scale slave rebellion, orchestrated by a free black carpenter named José Antonio Aponte. This episode explores…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The Sacking of Havana 1762: British Cuba and 1000 Slaves
In 1762, during the Seven Years' War, a British expedition force of over 12,000 men descended on Havana, the pearl of the Spanish Caribbean. After a…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1811 German Coast Uprising: Louisiana's Largest Slave Revolt
In January 1811, the largest slave uprising in American history erupted just 36 miles upriver from New Orleans. Led by Charles Deslondes, a free mixed-race…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
Britain's 1807 Abolition Act: Impact on the Transatlantic Slave Trade
This episode explores the aftermath of Britain's 1807 Abolition Act, examining how the world's most powerful slave-trading nation attempted to…
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History
The 1835 Abolition of Slavery in the British Cape Colony
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the end of slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, a story often overshadowed by events in the Caribbean. They discuss the…