This time; our eager non-historians Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell discuss the amazing story of the enslaved people of Haiti, who rose up and defeated a major world power and established the New World’s first independent black state. Episode includes violence, voodoo and a zombie.

Recommended reading:Avengers of the New World by Laurent DuboisYou are all free : the Haitian revolution and the abolition of slavery by Jeremy PopkinThe Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James

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Angela Barnes is on tour with her critically acclaimed, sold out Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Hot Mess’. Tickets are available here https://www.angelabarnescomedy.co.uk 

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