The Slavery Business - 3 Parts BBC 2005 torrent

The Slavery Business - 3 Parts BBC 2005


The Slavery Business: How to Make a Million (1/3) 2005 BBC
Three-part series which looks at Britain's part in the slave trade.

Part 1

500 mgs/58 mns

A drama based on the life of British slave trader Henry Lascelles, the Robert Maxwell of his day and one of the richest businessmen of the eighteenth century. His descendants are now cousins of the Queen. Unlike previous dramas, this film controversially explores the lives of the white men who built this huge trade.

London, 1744 and Henry Lascelles is promoting his latest money making venture, a floating slave factory ship that aims to make the storage and sale of slaves even more efficient, and provide enormous financial returns. However, Lascelles ambitions are jeopardised when government inspector Robert Dinwiddie is instructed to investigate him on allegations of fraud.


A deadly battle of wills develops, a fight between two determined and ambitious men that takes us from the sugar plantations of Barbados to the coffee houses and taverns of London, culminating in the case coming before the highest court in the land.


Starring: Robert Pugh, Jack Shepherd, John Standing, Ben Crompton, Rupert Frazer

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The Slavery Business~ Sugar Dynasty (2/3) 2005 BBC
Part 2 of 3

500 MB/58:36min

The second programme in this series begins with a powerful drama-documentary telling the story of the Beckford dynasty, one the wealthiest of the families who ran Britain's first global business - slavery.


Using a unique set of family records, it shows how the Beckfords ruthlessly ran their sugar plantations in Jamaica to wring vast profits out of their thousands of slaves. It also tells the story of how lavishly they spent their money back in Britain in an attempt to join the aristocracy and how they eventually became embroiled in the sexual and financial scandals that would destroy them.


Related Websites

http://www.ligali.org/article.php?id=311

http://www.ligali.org/bbc/enslavement_myths.htm

http://www.open2.net/slavery/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4742049.stm

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The Slavery Business - Breaking the Chains (3/3) 2005 BBC
500 MB/00:58:43


The third and final part of this series tells the story of how slavery came to an end.

Today William Wilberforce is considered a hero, the man who ended the slave trade, but there's another story that's been hidden for 200 years. Although opposed to the slave trade, Wilberforce believed that the 800,000 slaves owned by the British should remain in chains. He regarded them as unfit for freedom.


This programme uncovers the real heroes of the battle against slavery. They were radical political activists, many of them women; fiery evangelical preachers who worked amongst the slaves; and thousands of slaves themselves, who rose up in rebellion to break the chains of their own bondage.

See Also:Coolies: How Britain Re-invented Slavery BBC
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1894278/?rel=1240724849


http://www.open2.net/slavery/
http://www.open2.net/slavery/breaking_chains.html