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NBN Episodes hosted by Tyler:

Ruma Chopra, "Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone" (Yale UP, 2018)

November 21, 2018

Almost Home

Ruma Chopra
Hosted by Tyler Yank

After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In Almost Home: Maro…

Miranda Kaufmann, "Black Tudors: The Untold Story" (Oneworld, 2017)

November 2, 2018

Black Tudors

Miranda Kaufmann
Hosted by Tyler Yank

A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptized in a London church. Henry …

Robert G. Ingram, "Reformation Without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England" (Manchester UP, 2018)

October 24, 2018

Reformation Without End

Robert G. Ingram
Hosted by Tyler Yank

Robert G. Ingram's Reformation Without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England (Manchester University Press, 2018) radicall…

Lisa Ze Winters, "The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic" (U Georgia Press, 2016)

April 20, 2018

The Mulatta Concubine

Lisa Ze Winters
Hosted by Tyler Yank

Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined …

Karen Teoh, "Schooling Diaspora: Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s to 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2018)

April 17, 2018

Schooling Diaspora

Karen Teoh
Hosted by Tyler Yank

In Schooling Diaspora: Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s to 1960s (Oxford University Press, 2018), Kar…

John Broich, "Squadron: Ending the African Slave Trade" (Overlook Duckworth Press, 2017)

March 1, 2018

Squadron

John Broich
Hosted by Tyler Yank

Despite the British being early abolitionists, a significant slave trade remained in the western Indian Ocean through the mid-1800s, even after the ce…

Sasha Turner, "Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Child-Rearing, and Slavery in Jamaica" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2017)

February 8, 2018

Contested Bodies

Sasha Turner
Hosted by Tyler Yank

Sasha Turner's Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Child-Rearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) reveals enslaved women's co…

Monica Mattfeld, "Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2017)

January 19, 2018

Becoming Centaur

Monica Mattfeld
Hosted by Tyler Yank

Monica Mattfeld's Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship (Penn State University Press, 2017) explores the complex r…