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Today we’ll hear four clips from four shows that weave together ideas of slavery, imperialism, and ideological and environmental pollution. Each clip is about ten minutes long. Those shows are: Slavery’s Imperial Skein: Knitting Together the Capitalist Empire with guest Zach Sell Spreading Global Freedom, or the Divine Right to Traffic Drugs, Guns, and People, with guest Mark Driscoll Revolutionary …

While today’s conversation centers on slavery’s influence during the forty years from the 1830s to the 1870s, we’re going to begin a bit prior to that with a journal entry by Benjamin Banneker who lived from 1731 to 1806 near Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland (now known as Ellicott City). In that entry Banneker recalled a “great locust year” in 1749, a …