The Food Programme: The Legacy of Slavery in Our Food

Jaega Wise and Dan Saladino investigate the hidden story of slavery in food. Between the 17th century and into the 19th, 12 million enslaved Africans were transported to the Caribbean and into the rest of the Americas. Their work transformed industries, including tobacco and cotton, but it was their agricultural labour that made the biggest impact on the world. The modern food system would not exist without the centuries of the brutal slavery put in place by European powers. Jaega and Danare joined by James Walvin, a writer and academic who has spent 50 years researching the role of slavery in making the modern world