Podcast 61: Black History Month Special

February 25th, 2008

Abijah Prince was born into slavery in the early 17th century in Springfield, Massachusetts, but in middle age, he arranged his own freedom and married (and freed) the dynamic and eloquent Lucy Terry of the nearby town of Deerfield. (…)

 
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Next Week: Slavery and Out From It

February 15th, 2008

We talk with Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina about MR. AND MRS. PRINCE: How An Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend. (…)