125 Death, Suicide, and Slavery in British North America

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

Earlyrepublic, History, Benfranklin, Society & Culture, Warforindependence, Earlyamericanrepublic, Earlyamericanhistory, Education, Colonialamerica, Americanrevolution, Ushistory, Benjaminfranklin

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🗓️ 14 March 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Early America was a diverse place. It contained many different people who had many different traditions that informed how they lived…and died.

How did early Americans understand death? What did they think about suicide?

Terri Snyder, a Professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton and author of The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America, helps us answer these questions, and more, as she takes us on an exploration of slavery and suicide in British North America.

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0:00.0	This episode of Ben Franklin's world is brought to you by Delanceyplace.com offers a brief
0:06.8	daily email with interesting excerpts or quotes for you to consider, and many of the selected
0:11.4	passages in the emails come from history books, like
0:14.3	Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman's Slavery's capitalism.
0:18.0	Delacseeplace.com's email about slavery's capitalism
0:21.0	highlighted the conflicted relationship
0:23.0	between slaveholding and non-slaveholding states.
0:25.9	For example, the email reprinted Baltimore Minister Alexander McCain
0:29.5	statement that, quote,
0:30.9	many of the abolitionists feel such abhorrence of slavery that they will not
0:34.8	wear the cotton of the South because it has been cultivated by slaves.
0:38.0	Yet these extremely sensitive and preeminently holy characters feel no qualms of conscious to sell southern
0:44.9	planters their boots and shoes their Negro cloth and all the etc that make up a
0:49.4	cargo of Yankee notions and to put that money arising from the labor of slaves in their pockets."
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1:11.0	Welcome to Ben Franklin's world.
1:14.0	Podcast about Early American History with Liz Cobart.
1:18.0	The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can affect the better future.
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