142 A History of Abolition

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Most histories of American abolitionism begin just before the Civil War, during the Antebellum period. But the movement to end chattel slavery in America began long before the United States was a nation. Manisha Sinha, a professor of history at the University of Connecticut and author of the award-winning book The Slaves Cause: A History of Abolition, takes us through the early American origins of the the abolition movement. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/142 Sponsor Links Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Georgian Papers Programme Complementary Episodes Episode 055: Robb Haberman, John Jay: Forgotten Founder Episode 096: Nicholas Guyatt, The Origins of Racial Segregation in the United States Episode 124: James Alexander Dun, Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America Episode 127: Caroline Winterer, American Enlightenments Episode 135: Julie Holcomb, Moral Commerce Episode 137: Erica Dunbar, The Washingtons’ Runaway Slave Ona Judge Helpful Show Links Ben Franklin's World Facebook Page Join the Ben Franklin's World Community Sign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App *Books purchased through this link will help support the production of Ben Franklin's World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for Ben Franklin's world comes from the
0:02.5	Omaha Institute of Early American History and Culture.
0:05.5	Proud citizens of vast early America
0:08.0	and the primary partners in the Georgian Papers Program.
0:10.5	The Georgian Papers Program aims to digitize, interpret, and make available an extraordinarily rich
0:15.8	collection of correspondence, maps, and royal household ledgers created by the Georgian kings
0:20.0	of England and their families.
0:22.3	This program is huge because it seeks to make available
0:25.2	it's approximately 350,000 items to the world. Digital access to this collection promises
0:31.6	to really change our understanding of the Georgian period and of 18th and
0:34.9	early 19th century North America. Now as part of its contribution to this program
0:39.2	the Omaha Institute is sending scholars to Windsor Castle where they get to work alongside
0:43.6	rail archivists as they seek to gain greater insight into these rich materials.
0:47.2	Rick Atkinson, the author of the Liberation Trilogy and a Pulitzer Prize-winning
0:51.6	journalist, is one of the scholars the
0:53.6	Omaha Institute helps end to Windsor Castle. Now Rick remarked that he's worked in
0:58.4	some exotic locations, Mogadishu, Mali, Baghdad, Kazakhstan.
1:03.6	But none of these places has been more evocative
1:06.0	than the Royal Archives based in the Round Tower
1:08.1	at Windsor Castle.
1:09.6	He also noted that working within the Georgian papers
1:12.4	gave him a new understanding of King George
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