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

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