Bloodsuckers - How malaria has shaped humanity | Christmas Specials
Bloodsuckers The parasite shows how history is partly created by non-human forces T WO CENTURIES ago, at Anna Pépin’s house on Gorée Island, off the coast of Senegal, ladies with fashionably pointed hats sashayed up the stairs to sip fine wines in an airy salon with a stupendous view of the Atlantic. Under the staircase was a windowless punishment cell for recalcitrant slaves. Young, fertile women were separated from the other slaves, for reasons as obvious as they are odious. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. Pépin, an Afro-French trafficker, must have h...
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