🎧 Slavery with Professor Christer Petley
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧
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Dan chats to Christer Petley about slavery, focusing on one particularly virulent slave-owner called Simon Taylor, one of the most powerful men in Jamaica in the 18th century.
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