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 the thing is, Garvey doesn't just join that movement.
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He is one of its loudest voices, because the guy's a phenomenal speaker.
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And he fused Jamaican ideas about independence and self-reliance with this American belief that success wasn't just possible, it was something you could build.
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And the year nineteen nineteen.
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It's about to become an incredibly important year for Marcus Garvey.
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The Black Star line was sort of born out of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which by then it was a movement of more than four million members.
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Without the
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There were sort of two reasons behind the company.
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One, foster black trade, but also transport passengers between America, the Caribbean, and Africa.
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And if that name, Black Star Line, sounds familiar, that is no accident.
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So Garvey was borrowing from the White Star Line, which is the shipping company who owned arguably the most famous ship in history.
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The Titanic.
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He's like,
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Remember, Garvey had watched Britain become unimaginably wealthy by extracting resources from its colonies like Jamaica.
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So just take sugar, for example.
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For centuries, sugarcane plantations across the Caribbean were, of course, worked by enslaved Africans, and those plantations produced the vast majority of the sugar consumed in Europe and generated enormous fortunes for Britain.
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Garvey looked at that system and he asked,
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simple question.
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Why should everyone else get rich from black labor and black resources?
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His answer was economic independence.
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