Outspoken: Black people had difficult choices to make in the American Revolution
About this episode
The episode discusses the different perspectives of Black individuals during the American Revolution and the implications for education today.
Walk into the Museum of African American History on Boston’s Beacon Hill right now and the Revolution looks different from the one most of us learned in school. The museum’s new exhibition, "Black Voices of the Revolution: Liberty, Emancipation, and the Struggle for Independence," asks what independence meant to people who were themselves enslaved or only tenuously free. In this Outspoken conversation, I spoke with the museum’s president and CEO, Noelle Trent, about how that lens reshapes our understanding of 1776 and what we should be teaching the next generation as the Declaration of Independence turns 250. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
People in this episode
Guest: Noelle Trent
Topics covered
- American Revolution
- African American history
- independence
- enslavement
- education
- historical perspective
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Museum of African American History
Books & works: Black Voices of the Revolution: Liberty, Emancipation, and the Struggle for Independence
Places: Boston, America
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