Episode 9: The Sugar

Worlds Turned Upside Down

In the 1760s, Jamaica and the islands of the British Caribbean were the crown jewels of Britain's American Empire. And as King George III's ministers searched for solutions to a vexing imperial puzzle and moved to counter a pernicious threat in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War, they looked west from London, to the islands of sugar.

Featuring: Trevor Burnard, Abby Chandler, Mary Draper, Jon Kukla, Andrew O’Shaughnessy, and Brooke Newman.

Voice Actors: Anne Fertig, Norman Rodger, Dan Howlett, Nate Sleeter, and Beau Robbins.

Narrated by Jim Ambuske

Find the official transcript here.

Worlds Turned Upside Down is a production of R2 Studios at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.