Why Thistlewood's Diary Matters

Robert walks his former colleague Titi Lee through the life and times of Thomas Thistlewood, a slave owner and monster of the first order who kept a detailed diary of all his crimes against humanity.

(2 Part Series)

Sources:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170328175826/https://www.thesocialhistorian.com/journals-of-thomas-thistlewood/

https://www.amazon.com/Miserable-Slavery-Thistlewood-Jamaica-1750-1786/dp/9766400660

https://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2007/03/29/thomas_thistlewood_feature.shtml

https://talkafricana.com/thomas-thistlewood-the-serial-rapist/

https://talkafricana.com/derbys-dose-the-cruel-punishment-used-to-punish-slaves-in-jamaica/

https://talkafricana.com/stockmen-trade-the-19th-century-practice-of-renting-enslaved-men-to-plantation-owners-for-breeding-in-america/

https://read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/article/22/1%20(55)/18/133815/Thomas-Thistlewood-s-Libidinal-Linnaean?fromStore=true

https://samepassage.org/thomas-thistlewood-2/

https://www.pismin.com/10.2307/40654549

https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:m044g0752/fulltext.pdf

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