Welcome to Ben Franklin's World,

Podcast about Early American History with Liz Covert.

The study of history is key to understanding who we are

and how we can affect a better future.

Van Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present day world.

And now, here's your host, Liz Colarn.

Hello and welcome to episode 83 of Ben Franklin's world.

The podcast dedicated to helping you

learn more about how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.

When we think about North American slaves and slavery, most of our minds take us to plantations in southern North America or in the Caribbean. We picture plantation

field hands or big house slaves. However, slavery existed in the colonial northeast too, and slavery

looked very different there than it did on southern or Caribbean

plantations.

Today, Jarrett Hardesty, an assistant professor of history at Western Washington University,

will take us on a tour of slavery and the lives and slave people lived

in colonial Boston. During our exploration, Jared reveals details about colonial

Boston and how its people justified slavery, origins of Boston slaves and where Bostonians purchased them,

and what life was like for enslave men and women in colonial Boston.

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