The Thistlewood Diary: A Slave Owner's Brutal Confession

In this solo episode, Johnny dives into the chilling life of Thomas Thistlewood, an 18th-century English overseer in Jamaica whose detailed diary records decades of extreme cruelty, sexual violence, and daily horrors inflicted on enslaved Africans on the Egypt Plantation. Johnny explores what his 14,000+ page journal reveals about the true nature of slavery in the British Caribbean and why it remains one of history’s most disturbing firsthand accounts.A stark unflinching look at power, dehumanization, and the human capacity for evil...told a little differently.New episodes of The Twin History Podcast drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss one. Give us a five star rating, tell your friends about us. Our theme song licensing agreement is below: "Killers"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/