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Barbados – Stability Built on Enslavement
This episode examines how Barbados became one of the most stable societies in the Caribbean by perfecting systems of control during slavery and preserving...
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Puerto Rico – Colony Without End
Puerto Rico – Colony Without End examines more than a century of unresolved power. Beginning with the transfer of the island in eighteen ninety...
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Dominican Republic. Identity, Borders, and Control
This episode examines how the Dominican Republic built national identity through division, beginning with independence in eighteen forty four and continuing into the present....
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Trinidad and Tobago – Oil, Music, and Power
This episode examines the modern history of Trinidad and Tobago through the collision of oil wealth, cultural power, and political control. From the rise...
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Cuba – Revolution Before the Revolution
This episode traces the long build of pressure that shaped modern Cuba before the moment the world remembers. From the end of Spanish rule...
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Haiti – The Only Successful Slave Revolution
This episode examines Haiti’s revolution from uprising to aftermath, and the price imposed for winning it. It traces how the world’s richest slave colony...