📚 2 Books mentioned in "Joe Rogan Experience #1821 - Bert Kreischer & Tony Hinchcliffe" of The Joe Rogan Experience

like there was this book called uh something about portuguese people and uh i listened to it on tape and they would have they would come down the coast of africa into trade and they'd say tell the king to send out his daughter we want her and then they'd be like and he'd be like i'm not sending out my daughter then like tell the king to come out here and then they would [ __ ] in his throat and shove pork down his throat in the [ __ ] and then go back and go now send your daughter he'd be like hey i gotta go with these people the the god i wish i knew the name of that book what's the point of putting the poor congress that's it the conquerors roger crowley and then it talks in there about them shoving [ __ ] down his throat [ __ ] down a a muslim king's throat and then pour pork on top of the [ __ ] because you're not allowed to eat pork

The speaker tries to recall the name of a book about Portuguese people and the slave trade, eventually recalling the title 'The Conquerors' and the author Roger Crowley.

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they kind of whitewashed slavery up until roots came out like they didn't really dive into just how bad it was from what i from what i've heard until roots came out roots was the first representation of what of them

The speaker mentions the book/miniseries 'Roots' as the first time America had an open, honest conversation about slavery.

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