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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This Week: Slavery and Out From It

February 21st, 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. (…)

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. (…)

Podcast 28: Special on Human Trafficking

June 20th, 2007

Author and anti-slavery activist Beatrice Fernando talks about her memoir, IN CONTEMPT OF FATE: THE TALE OF A SRI LANKAN SOLD INTO SERVITUDE, WHO SURVIVED TO TELL IT. (…)

 
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Spotlight on Modern Slavery: David Batstone and Beatrice Fernando

June 4th, 2007

David Batstone talks about his book NOT FOR SALE, about the modern Abolition movement, as well as the Not For Sale Campaign. (…)