An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

316: The First Abolitionist

March 27, 2023

Description

It's 1718, an English Quaker lands in Barbados. He is soon horrified to discover the treatment of people working the plantations there. Treatment the Marquis de Sade saw as the only cruelty that...
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Books Referenced

Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World

Author: Alec Ryrie

Context:

Described as 'a brilliant historian of Protestantism' who 'wrote a wonderful book about it' - referring to a book about Protestantism. The host references a story from this book about a servant girl named Elizabeth Andrews refusing to curtsy.

In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica

Author: Thomas Thistlewood

Context:

Referenced as a journal written by the notorious slave owner Thomas Thistlewood documenting his treatment of slaves in Jamaica. The host notes 'he wrote this journal and you can read it' and quotes specific entries from it.

All Slave Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage Apostates

Author: Benjamin Lay

Context:

Explicitly mentioned as a book/tract printed in 1737 in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin. The hosts read passages from it and discuss it as the primary source about Benjamin Lay's anti-slavery views.