173 Colonial Port Cities and Slavery

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

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

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🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The histories of early North America and the Caribbean are intimately intertwined. The same European empires we encounter in our study of early America also appear in the Caribbean. The colonies of these respective empires often traded goods, people, and ideas between each other.

Marisa Fuentes, an associate professor of history and women and gender studies at Rutgers University and author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive, joins us to explore some of the connections mainland North America and the British Caribbean shared in their practices of slavery in urban towns.

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's World is a production of the
0:02.1	Omaha Institute and the sponsor for this episode is the Georgian Papers
0:05.8	Program.
0:06.8	Welcome to Ben Franklin's World, podcast about Early American History with Liz Covert.
0:14.0	The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can affect the better future.
0:19.0	Ben Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people and events that have impacted
0:24.6	and shaped our present day world.
0:27.1	And now here's your host, Liz Kovalan.
0:29.9	Hello and welcome to episode 173 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:34.8	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our
0:39.0	early American past have shaped the presentday world we live in.
0:43.0	You know, we don't really get a full picture of the history of North America
0:46.5	unless we also look at the history of the Caribbean.
0:49.0	Because when we look at the historical records that tell us about the past, we often find that the histories of North
0:55.1	America and the Caribbean islands are intimately intertwined. And this makes sense. The same European
1:01.6	empires that we encounter in our study of early North America also appear in the Caribbean.
1:06.0	Spain, France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands all had Caribbean colonies.
1:10.0	And these colonies often traded with their imperial counterparts on the mainland.
1:15.0	And of course, as we know from our exploration in episode 161, smuggling in the American Revolution,
1:22.0	the people of early North America and the various Caribbean islands
1:25.9	also often traded outside of their imperial bounds.
1:29.9	Now when we think of trade, we often think of goods.
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