EP041 ROOTS OF BLOOD
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An empire lives on the backs of people; its own or those it conquers. For the British, South Africa needed colonists to clear the forests, build the farms, and man the armies. But getting them from Britain to South Africa was no easy task. Learn about the hard start to a colonists voyage from the frozen Thames to the heat of the tropics to the far south, and for the unlucky, the horrors of being lost at sea.
This episode covers
Intro & reviews.
An insatiable need for manpower.
The horror of slavery in early South Africa.
The 1820 settlement scheme organisation and planning
The colonists; almost honest and upstanding.
The ships; HMS Weymouth.
What was the voyage like.
The horror of the Abeona.
Life aboard, and the people.
A glympse of the future.
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The story of the British Empire in South Africa continues. The first battles were being won, but the cost was blood on the soil, spilt by the British and shed by the native peoples as well as the soldiers in red. This episode covers
Intro & reviews.
Col Graham and the imperial mindset.
Warfare is a continuation of culture by other means.
The clash between British and Xhosa mindsets.
The problems perspectives on history can cause.
War, brutality, and the British establishment.
The New Men: Lord Somerset & Dr Barry.
What Florence Nightingale thought of the Doctor.
Well that is a mystery.
Lord Somerset has a plan.
Come settle me boyo’s, there’s land for all.
A new utopia.
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The British Empire was vast, but it didn’t spring up over night. South Africa was a vital imperial staging post, then a fledgling colony. The story of how it got to be is intimately linked to the land and the people. Start the next series on empire, this episode covers
Intro and reviews
Why South Africa?
Mythbusting: Africa, a continent of cities and kingdoms.
The many African migrations throughout History.
South Africa: The land – beauty and danger.
Islands and ship wrecks.
The Dutch arrive, and the Napoleonic Wars.
Ours by right of conquest – the British take the Cape from the Dutch.
The Dutch Boer migrations begin.
The Xhosa & War.
The British decide to remove the Xhosa from the neutral zone.
Col Graham and the first British Imperial War in South Africa.
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Prison is never nice, but the Victorian prison of Port Arthur in Van Diemen’s Land combined starvation, deprivation, desperation, and isolation. It was considered a hell on Earth. This episode covers:
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The journey into Empire continues as we look more closely at the Australia’s, and the difficult issues of landownership, native rights, and how land can tie to identity. I also cover the culture clash between the Europeans and the indigenous aborigines. This episode then breaks and in part 2, it will cover more of the background of Empire in the Australia’s, the impact of liberalism and the difference in world views between the Europeans and the Aborigines, and the timeline leading to the early Victorian Era in the Australia’s.
Thank you’s to Patrons, and listener reviews.
Elaboration on listener feedback/comments.
The complexity of ethnic identity in the UK.
The idea of conquest as a legitimate means of ownership
Indigenous rights as a concept
The culture clash between Europeans and the Aborigines at a high level
Terra Nulis and settlement.
To whom the law applies
The first steps to human rights
Break for end of part 1.
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Thank you’s to Patrons, and some listener reviews.
The complexity of Empire, and the settler empire.
How common were empires?
Are people innately warlike and violent?
Is life important; the need for philosophy.
Is life important; what would God do, and does that make it ok?
Is life important; building a moral framework for atheists.
The worst pub bore ever – drunken philosophy.
The economic value of life.
If your people are starving, is it immoral not to invade another country?
The right to liberty and freedom to do what you want except when you can’t.
Heuristics, mental shortcuts, and cognitive biases; how bad decision making affects empires.
The power and danger of othering.
Look him in the eyes as he dies.
Gengis Khan, and how to turn genocides into hero worship.
The dangers of anarchy, law and order.
Some impacts of Empires; feeding the hungry, and killing other people.
Final thoughts.
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