Explore every episode of the podcast The Anansi Chronicles
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| 1805 Black Caesar | 05 Apr 2023 | 00:20:20 | |
The story of the infamous pirate known as Black Caesar.
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| 1789 Haitian Revolution | 24 Mar 2023 | 00:33:06 | |
Dutty Boukman and Cecile Fatiman lead the Boise Caiman ceremony to trigger the start of the Haitian revolution.
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| Trailer | 01 Dec 2021 | 00:02:40 | |
The new season of the Anansi Chronicles begins January 2022. This season will tell stories about real figures and events from global black history. | |||
| 1765 Cato Howe | 01 Aug 2022 | 00:33:06 | |
The story of Cato Howe, a black man and a spy in the American Revolutionary War.
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| 1700s Nanny | 05 Jul 2022 | 00:33:06 | |
The story of Nanny of the Maroons. The mysterious and powerful runaway African queen who would form a maroon community in the hills of Jamaica. Nanny is also a Jamaican National Hero.
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| 1579 Yasuke | 02 May 2022 | 00:21:40 | |
The story of the first foreigner and the only black man in Japan to ever achieve the title of Samurai.
https://time.com/6039381/yasuke-black-samurai-true-story/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48542673 https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/02/the-real-yasuke-is-far-more-interesting-than-his-netflix-show/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oda-Nobunaga https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/19/asia/black-samurai-yasuke-africa-japan-intl/index.html https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/yasuke-1555/ https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-bushido-195302 https://www.pbs.org/empires/japan/enteredo_8.html
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| 1500s Capoeira | 04 Apr 2022 | 00:17:32 | |
The origins of the Black Brazilian martial art, Capoeira Sources https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/slavery-brazil https://library.brown.edu/create/fivecenturiesofchange/chapters/chapter-2/african-slavery/ https://honestmediablog.com/2018/01/01/african-combat/ http://atacxgymcapoeira.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-true-history-of-kipuracapoeira-pt-2.html https://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/national-traditions/brazilian-tradition3.htm https://www.historyoffighting.com/the-roots-of-the-capoeira-fighter.php
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| 1528 Estevanico the Moor | 07 Mar 2022 | 00:24:13 | |
A black man explores North America in the 1500s and becomes a medicine man. His life gives birth to a strange legend surrounding supernatural figures from the culture of some Native American tribe. Sources https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-african-slave-ship-arrives-jamestown-colony accessed on June 27, 2021. https://www.aaihs.org/the-fallacy-of-1619-rethinking-the-history-of-africans-in-early-america/ https://www.southwestcrossroads.org/record.php?num=34 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakwaina https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/seven-cities-of-cibola https://www.psi.edu/about/staff/hartmann/coronado/journeyofmarcosdeniza.html
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| 1841- Madison and Susan Washington (Bonus episode) | 14 Feb 2022 | 00:33:06 | |
In 1841 Madison Washington escaped from the bloody plantations of Virginia into the relative freedom of Canada. A few months later, he returned to Virginia in attempt to free his wife Susan. The resulting story is one love, passion, and the power of the human spirit. Sources
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| 1492 Pedro Alonso Nino | 07 Feb 2022 | 00:18:48 | |
In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed out of the ocean blue- bringing death and disease with him. Legend has it that one of his ships was sailed by a black man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Marzollo https://aaregistry.org/story/pedro-nino-navagator-born/ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/oct12/columbus-makes-landfall-caribbean/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/columbus-reaches-the-new-world | |||
| 1312- Mansa Abu Bakr II | 03 Jan 2022 | 00:19:38 | |
Over 100 years before Columbus invaded the Americas, the leader of a wealthy African Kingdom set in search of a new world. Sources https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/mali-empire/ https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/mansa-abubakari-ii http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1068950.stm https://www.history.com/news/who-was-the-richest-man-in-history-mansa-musa https://www.ontheshoulders1.com/the-giants/mansa-abu-bakr-ii-9th-ruler-of-mali#/ | |||