Podcast: Human Resources (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Woolly Morals part 1
Pub date: 2021-06-08

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Welsh cloth, a tough fabric that had been manufactured in central Wales since the 16C, played a little-known but vital part in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. European demand for the cloth diminished in the early 1800s, so merchants began selling it to Caribbean plantation owners instead, for use by their slaves. At the peak, Welsh cottage weavers were exporting almost eight million yards a year (29m 58s)

The picturesque County of Powys in Wales, had an abstruse but vital role in the Slave trade. We uncover how everyday families got swept up in the business and production of Welsh Cloth, a cloth used to not only clothe enslaved people but also trade them.

⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of brutality, listener discretion advised.

Featuring Dr. Marian Gwynn (https://www.mariangwyn.com/)

Full episode transcript (shorturl.at/cBDNW)

CREDITS

Produced by Renay Richardson

Researchers Dr Alison Bennett and Arisa Loomba

Sound design by Ben Yellowitz

The original song you heard was Tudor Gwynn Suganami Jones which is about Sir Henry Morgan

Steel pan and flute by Sian Herbert

Extra sound recordings - Sandra Dobrozemsky

J Hope on Violin

James Collins - Choral vocals.

Production Assistant is Rory Boyle.

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