Part One: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade
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What historical context is provided about the Atlantic Slave Trade?
What's enslaving my like 10 million people over the course of 300 or so years? Welcome to Behind the Bastards. Sophie, people have missed the old kind of introduction where I did like a what's axing my wise sort of thing. Is there something inappropriate about how I did this intro?
It was very inappropriate. Also, I liked my intro where I said, welcome to Behind the Bastards. I'm not Robert Evans.
Yeah, you didn't do a British accent last time, Sophie, which was a weird choice for the second one.
But I was doing that not because of our guests, but because of our topic.
Oh, I thought you were doing that because of our guest.
No, I would never mock James.
Sir James Stout.
Sir James Stout.
There it is. Yeah, absolutely not. I don't think that's happening any time in the near future. And if anyone touched me with a sword, period, I'd have a back at them if they tried. Well, Margaret told me the other day that I would make a great Queen of England. You did, Robert, when we fenced. Oh, yeah, we did. I was pretty drunk, I think. Yeah, I was drunk, too, and we were using those crucifixes. Yeah, we were using crucifixes to fence in Thailand. This is a podcast about the worst people in all of history. But before we get to that, Robert, I want to take a moment for our dear friend James Stout to plug his new book that's available for pre-order. Yeah, I was trying to introduce him before we did that, Sophie.
We said his name. What else do you want? I was going to put a little bit more, like, you know, spin on it, some oil, you know, on the vinegar. By all means.
Uh-huh. Go ahead.
Go ahead. This is James Stout, podcaster and author. And journalist and our friend. And our buddy. Yeah. Yeah. You want to tell people about your book? I do. I would like that. And then I'm excited to hear about Peter Fowler, whatever we're going to do. Yeah. This is my book, it's called Against the State, a story of anarchists and comrades at war in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava, uh, includes some places I've been with Robert, uh, and places I've been on my own.
It's a beautiful cover.
It's a really, yeah. So, um, a friend of Robert's and mine, uh, took this photograph, uh, and I was really happy to be able to like share it with people. And I really like having it in, this is Burmese Kurdish. This is English and Spanish for those who aren't familiar with those languages. Yeah, it comes out on the 26th of January with AK Press. We'll give you a pre-order link if you'd like to buy it.
In the episode description, friends.
Yep. You can also just search my name and the words Against the State and you'll find it almost everywhere good books are sold. You can buy it from Jeff Bezos if you want, but I'd rather that you didn't. And yeah, I hope I've captured some of the beautiful elements of these revolutions that I've been lucky enough to spend some time with. And obviously the Spanish revolution is something I studied for my PhD. I didn't spend time in that one. I'm not that old. Buy the book. Read the book. Overthrow the government, you know? Nothing would make me happier than you pre-ordering James Stout's book. Mm-hmm. One thing would make me happier, and it's the government, the thing I said a little bit ago that I probably should only say once.
Sure, sure, sure. Yeah, anyway. To be clear, my book is not a guide to how to do that. No. These are jokes, comedy, bits. You know what's not funny, James? I'm trying to think what you're about to say. Slavery. It's not. But today, this is our Christmas episode. Every year around Christmas, we do a reverse bastards episode, right? Where, I mean, we've used that term also to mean when someone else reads an episode to me. But in this context, it means we're talking about a hero, right? Or a group of heroes, right? This is an episode about a good thing that happened. Now, because it's still behind the bastards, we will largely be talking about terrible things. But I did bring you an episode for the end of the year because we both needed a little bit of a break, James, that this is going to be a little bit of a play against type.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What historical context is provided about the Atlantic Slave Trade?
0:05–15:34
2
Who were the key figures involved in ending the slave trade?
15:34–26:51
3
What role did the British Empire play in the slave trade?
26:51–40:58
4
How did the abolitionist movement gain momentum?
40:58–53:05
5
What was the significance of the Zong slave ship incident?
53:05–1:05:05
6
What were the conditions like for enslaved people during the Middle Passage?
1:05:05–1:20:38
7
How did insurance companies factor into the slave trade?
1:20:38–1:32:07