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US Civil War: how Europe aided the Confederacy

Tony McMahon7 months ago7 months ago013 mins

How Europe helped the Confederacy during the American Civil War while professing its abhorrence of slavery is an interesting tale of hypocrisy and mendacity in equal measure.

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Did the Founding Fathers oppose democracy?

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago210 mins

The Founding Fathers never conceived of the United States as a democracy and let’s not get started on women, slaves and the poor as Tony McMahon discovers

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Lobotomised and sold into slavery

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago07 mins

A court case from 1700 reveals a horrific story of young men lobotomised and sold into slavery in Maryland

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The Abolitionist who owned a thousand slaves

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago05 mins

John Coakley Lettsom was a doctor and noted abolitionist – or opponent of slavery – who accidentally ended up owning about a thousand slaves

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Toppling statues and renaming streets – nothing new

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago26 mins

There is a long history of toppling statues and renaming streets and cities and historian Tony McMahon thinks we should vex a lot less about this

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Corporate racism in the 1920s

Tony McMahon4 years ago3 years ago04 mins

A shocking example of vintage corporate racism with a 1923 Christmas card where African employees were treated as design accessories as Tony McMahon reports

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Lewis Powell – the handsome assassin of Abraham Lincoln

Tony McMahon5 years ago3 years ago44 mins

Abraham Lincoln killer Lewis Powell is more famous today because of the celebrity he attained on account of his rugged good looks – but he was still hanged

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Roman slavery and American slavery – how were they different?

Tony McMahon6 years ago3 years ago814 mins

What was the difference between Roman and American slavery in practice?

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