"My Family Owned Slaves" On the Rosel Sugar Plantation in Jamaica, between 1769 and 1811, nearly three hundred enslaved people died. Their names were recorded in plantation ledgers: Agnes, "first…
Alex Renton has appeared on 2 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Trapped History. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
“I couldn't honestly say I wouldn't [have done the same thing] unless... that seems to me really important because making the white slavers into monsters... is othering and it's not really useful. It's better to understand them as humans.”
— Alex Renton on why we must see the enslavers as ordinary people, not demons.
"My Family Owned Slaves" On the Rosel Sugar Plantation in Jamaica, between 1769 and 1811, nearly three hundred enslaved people died. Their names were recorded in plantation ledgers: Agnes, "first…
The Season 7 teaser for Trapped History presents a range of episodes that center on individual lives shaped by migration, war, scientific inquiry, and inherited family histories. The hosts note…
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