Slavery
File on 4 Investigates. Domestic servitude. Audio, 40 minutes
Investigating the plight of foreign workers in the UK working in domestic servitude.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Monday Documentary. Freedom from Slavery in Mauritania. Audio, 22 minutes
Mauritania has a tradition of slavery going back centuries
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Thoreau and the American Idyll. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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America, Empire of Liberty. Southern Planters and Black Slaves. Audio, 15 minutes
The English settled in Virginia and Maryland. Slaves from Africa were introduced.
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In Our Time. Wilberforce. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg examines the life of anti-slavery campaigner, William Wilberforce.
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In Our Time. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th century anti-slavery novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
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The Body Trade. Trafficking for Labour. Audio, 28 minutes
Millions of people worldwide are traded for their labour and shackled to employers by debt
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Agenda. How Best to Make Slavery Reparations? Audio, 26 minutes
How can governments and individual companies best make reparations for slavery?
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Slavery. Audio, 29 minutes
How slavery began in Africa
- AttributionBBC World Service
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The Radio History of The World. The Slave Trade. Audio, 13 minutes
Europeans in Ghana began the slave trade more than 500 years ago
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Chill Out. Race in America. Audio, 30 minutes
Why does America have the jitters? The United States is nervous about race debate
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Essential Guide. History of Race - Part Two. Audio, 28 minutes
Slavery's role in the history of race
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Essential Guide. History of Race - Part One. Audio, 28 minutes
How ideas of the notion of race and colour developed from the 7th Century onwards
- AttributionBBC World Service
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The Story of Africa. The Transatlantic Slave Trade. Audio, 29 minutes
The history, practise, and legacy of the transatlantic slave trade.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Story of Africa. The Roots of Slavery. Audio, 29 minutes
The history of Africans as both the enslaved and the enslavers
- AttributionBBC World Service
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African Perspective. Tippu Tip. Audio, 28 minutes
An exploration into the life of Tippu Tip, a Swahili-Zanzibari trader, notorious slaver, plantation owner and governor.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Omnibus. Tobago. Audio, 28 minutes
The history of the people of Tobago and their lives in slavery
- AttributionBBC World Service
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African Perspective. Trokosi Women of Ghana. Audio, 28 minutes
The girls given in slavery to religious shrines to atone for offences committed by others
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. Across the Ocean - Part One - Tales of Slavery. Audio, 30 minutes
The story of slavery - and the journey from Africa to the plantations of the Americas
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Omnibus. Orlando Equiano. Audio, 27 minutes
The Adventures of Orlando Equiano and its part in the abolition of slavery
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year