Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jan
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That's what I'm really trying to, it's the texture of life.
It's the everydayness of something that we, you know, rightly look back on as horrific.
That I'm really trying to understand what, for the people who are doing this work, what is their experience?
What is their outlook?
How do they understand themselves?
How do they understand the people that they're dealing with?
How do they understand the people they're trading?
Yeah, I mean, it's a movement that's been going on for some time now.
You know, it's sort of, you know, in the profession, we talk about social history, which is really trying to get at the lives of, you know, of people who don't leave papers, who are not famous, to try to get at the...
as I was saying, for the texture of life in particular communities.
But it's very challenging to do that because the records are not preserved in the same way.
You can understand people in a mass rather than as individual biographies typically.
And for the Atlantic slave trade, it's even harder because most of the folks who went out there
left very few traces of their lives.
And so you have to be very creative and very determined to try to recover some aspects of that experience.
And obviously, it's even more difficult to get at the experience of enslaved men and women themselves.
And scholars, many colleagues and friends of mine have been doing that work
I have a kind of perverse interest in the slave traders themselves.
And, you know, when they're in West Africa, they were both very powerful and they were also very weak.
And so that tension between being in a position of economic power, but also in position of, you might say, military, political, even biological weakness is something that I find very interesting.
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