Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-11-13
Books mentioned on Part Two: Thomas Thistlewood: Slave Plantation Owner and Diarist
Robert talks about legitimately some of the worst stuff we'll ever discuss on this show. Oh my god, you guys See omnystudio.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Man-plant: Or, Scheme for Increasing and Improving the British Breed. By Vincent Miller, ...
Discussed“And one of the thing one of the ways that happened to Thomas Thistlewood is he he becomes a fan of this like satirical tract published in 1752 called The Man Plant or a scheme for increasing and improving the British breed.”
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The CII Model Plant
Discussed“And Thistlewood comes across a book that's a similar thing to what Thomas Swift is doing called The Man Plant. And it's written we don't know exactly who wrote it. The author's pseudonym was Vincent Miller.”
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Experiments And Observations On Electricity
Discussed“In In this girl Bess runs back to the plantation with a copy of Benjamin Franklin's experiments and observations on electricity. That's how modern this is, right?”
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Experiments And Observations On Electricity Made At Philadelphia In America
Discussed“In In this girl Bess runs back to the plantation with a copy of Benjamin Franklin's experiments and observations on electricity. That's how modern this is, right?”
