In the 1760s, Jamaica and the islands of the British Caribbean were the crown jewels of Britain's American Empire. And as King George III's ministers searched for solutions to a vexing imperial puzzle and moved to counter a pernicious threat in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War, they looked west from London, to the islands of sugar.
Featuring: Trevor Burnard, Abby Chandler, Mary Draper, Jon Kukla, Andrew O'Shaughnessy, and Brooke Newman.
Voice Actors: Anne Fertig, Norman Rodger, Dan Howlett, Nate Sleeter, and Beau Robbins.
Narrated by Dr. Jim Ambuske
Music by Artlist.io
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Worlds Turned Upside Down is a production of R2 Studios at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
