Liberty With an Asterisk: Black Americans In the Revolution Era
About this episode
This episode explores the lives of three Black Americans during the Revolutionary era who contributed to the expansion of liberty and civil rights.
In this podcast, we revisit the lives of Elizabeth Freeman, Lemuel Haynes, and James Forten, three Black Americans who lived through the contradictions of the Revolutionary era and helped expand its ideals. These three did not passively await emancipation but seized the rhetoric of liberty and used it to reshape law, religion, and civil society. Their stories illuminate the untold Black contribution to the founding vision of the American Republic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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