"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 — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
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.
What Alex said
“All I know about mine is that they were living in horror and misery and they knew the same would happen to their children as it had been for their parents. That's all I know. I don't even know their names.”
— A descendant of the enslaved, speaking to Alex Renton in the Caribbean.
“Did you do anything good with the money?”
— A question asked of Alex Renton on a former plantation, which he describes as making him want to weep because his ancestors built a stupid palace and did nothing that justified the horror.
“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.
Episode appearances
2 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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