Marc Fennell
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1,887 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Marc Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And indeed for Britain, it was one of the jewels of the Empire, one of the richest sugar-producing islands on Earth.
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But that wealth came at an unimaginable human cost.
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Around a million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to Jamaica to work on the plantations that made Britain rich.
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Like the largest amount of sugar for the British Empire.
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That is, until of course, slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire and Jamaica.
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But the thing about that is it slavery didn't just end at once.
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It was abolished in sort of stages.
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Marcus Garvey, like the vast majority of Jamaicans at the time, grew up in a rural area.
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I've got this picture of him.
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In front of me, he's sitting in a I mean, it feels like a throne.
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He's wearing a three piece suit.
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He's looking off camera.
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Every picture I see of Marcus Garvey, he looks incredibly
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I guess Regal.
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When Garvey was in his late twenties, he he creates an organization.
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It's called the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
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Now, that word Negro is not one that we use comfortably these days, but it is a term that's essential for this story, and particularly his organization, the UNIA.
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By nineteen nineteen, Marcus Garvey's is in America.
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It's the dawn of what is known as the New Negro era, this moment when black pride, self-determination, political activism, they're surging.
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A lot of it's fueled by frustration and inequality, particularly in the wake of the First World War.
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