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On February 21, 1803, Colonel Edward (Ned) Marcus Despard was publicly hanged and decapitated in London before a crowd of 20,000 for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow King George III. His Black Caribbean wife, Catherine (Kate), helped to write his gallows speech in which he proclaimed that he was a friend to the poor and oppressed. He expressed trust that “the principles of freedom, of humanity, and of justice will triumph over falsehood, tyranny, and delusion.” And yet the world turned. From the connected events of the American, French, Haitian, and failed Irish Revolutions, to the Anthropocene’s birth amidst enclosures, war-making global capitalism, slave labor plant...
In the late 1890s, one of the great Scotch whisky barons, Sir Tommy Dewar, made a three-year sales trip around the world to set up agencies and exploit the popularity of the drink. In this text, the author retraces Dewar's travels, first recounted in Dewar's book, A Ramble Round the Globe.
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