Slavery
Who Do You Think You Are? Series 16, Naomie Harris. Video, 59 minutes
Naomie Harris’s dramatic discoveries inspire her to anger, sadness and tears of joy.
- AttributionBBC One
- Available for 3 months
Who Do You Think You Are? Series 15, Marvin Humes. Video, 58 minutes
Marvin Humes looks at his Jamaican and his English heritage.
- AttributionBBC One
- Available for 3 months
Who Do You Think You Are? Series 15, Shirley Ballas. Video, 58 minutes
Shirley pursues a rumour that she has black ancestors.
- AttributionBBC One
- Available for 3 months
- Attribution
- Posted17 May 2021
Groundbreakers. Rebel Heart - The Life of Mary Ann McCracken. Video, 29 minutes
The life and legacy of social revolutionary Mary Ann McCracken.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for over a year
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- Posted28 April 2021
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- Posted15 April 2021
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- Posted14 April 2021
What is Blackbirding? | Lucy Small. The Social. Video, 00:03:03
While in Australia Lucy learnt about the legacy left in the Pacific by Benjamin Boyd.
- AttributionBBC
- Posted25 March 2021
Witness History. The fight against slavery in Mauritania. Audio, 9 minutes
Brahim Bilal Ramdhane was born into slavery in the 1960s, now he fights against it.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted18 March 2021
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- Posted3 March 2021
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- Posted25 February 2021
Witness History. Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part one. Audio, 9 minutes
How researchers in London uncovered the story of Britain's forgotten slave owners
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part two. Audio, 9 minutes
The story of Britain's forgotten slave owners and the people they enslaved
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted18 February 2021
Witness History. General Robert E Lee: US Civil War rebel. Audio, 9 minutes
Lee was charged with treason, so why did Congress reinstate his citizenship in 1975?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted2 February 2021
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- Posted2 February 2021