{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6b2fc9ba-b9b7-4b7a-b980-e0024facd926/68b1d85d87128a4176f784d0?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Has history overlooked the enslaved who fought for freedom? | Sudhir Hazareesingh interview","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b9f75c1a8cbe0c083cee79/1756485495824-724e3580-ebb4-40be-a3ec-6c52fddb1214.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The abolition of the slave trade and of slavery itself in the 19th Century is generally understood to have been instigated by European and American abolitionists.</p><p><br></p><p>However, has history overlooked how the enslaved themselves resisted their oppressors?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Author and politics tutor at Oxford University, Sudhir Hazareesingh, has explored these stories of resistance in his new book <em>Daring to be Free</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Sudhir Hazareesingh discusses his findings with Tanjil Rashid.</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"The New Statesman"}