Diaspora Wars Part 1: The Multicultural Revolt of 1811 (featuring W. Kamau Bell and Carvell Wallace)

In 1811 after Haiti achieved the most successful slave revolt in history, the French were shook and their former colony of New Orleans was facing its own uprising. On the mainline with Black Heaven, Michael gets to the bottom of how a diverse population of Haitians, West Africans, and generational African-Americans secretly plotted and organized nearly 500 enslaved people to escape and kill their captors. Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media. This episode featured: Kwaku    W. Kamau Bell Charles Deslondes  Carvell Wallace Special thanks to our voice actors: James Brown  Jason Vives Commercial VO  Andrea O’Brien Vives Kwamina   Qianna Gamory-Pijeaux Mainline Singer  Blu Radway Harry Kenner  Moses Shyola Black Twitter 1/Ad lib 1 Reginald Gardiner Black Twitter 2/Ad lib 2 Dallas Rico Black Twitter 3/Ad lib 3 Particia Kihoro Black Twitter 4  Latoya McFarlane Executive Producers Pharrell Williams, Scott Vener, Noleca Radway, and Moses Soyoola Senior Producer Janicia Francis Managing Producer JoAnn DeLuna Production Coordinator Homero Radway Production Assistant Gilianne Roberts-Atkinson Writers Silas Miami, Dallas Rico, Roderick Morrow, Danielle Solomon and Randolph Terrence Sound Engineer  Ean Herrera Fact checker LaPorsche Thomas Music Supervisor Patricia Kihoro Theme Song  Freedom by Pharell Williams Includes music from Epidemic Sound Songs featured in this episode include: “Where the Party At”  by John Runefelt “Welcome Party People” by John Runefelt “Limbaka”    by Omri Smadar “Legendary Run”   by River Lume “Terems”    by Amrit Sagie “Wave Art”    by Gal Lev “Buss It”    by Yarin Primak Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices