ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Women made up 40% of slaveowners across the Caribbean – and although historians have had to dig even harder to pull together a picture of their lives, it’s out there.
Featuring Assistant Professor of Atlantic World History at Yale and US College in Singapore and author of Jamaica Ladies, Christine Walker
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