270 BFW Team Favorites: Slavery & Freedom in Early Maryland

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

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

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🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

How do you uncover the life of an enslaved person who left no paper trail?

What can the everyday life of an enslaved person tell us about slavery, how it was practiced, and how some enslaved people made the transition from slavery to freedom?

We explore the life of Charity Folks, an enslaved woman from Maryland who gained her freedom in the late-18th century. Our guide through Charity’s life is Jessica Millward, an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine and author of Finding Charity’s Folk.

This episode originally posted as Episode 089.

Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/270

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's world is a production of the
0:02.5	O'Mohandro Institute.
0:04.0	Hello and welcome to
0:07.0	to
0:12.0	Hello and welcome to episode 270 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:17.0	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our
0:22.1	early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.
0:25.9	And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.
0:29.2	Welcome back. This episode marks the third episode in our four episode
0:33.2	Teen Favorite series. Over the last two episodes you've met and heard from two of
0:37.8	my Omaha Institute Digital Projects teammates, the people who help me out
0:42.0	behind the scenes with this podcast.
0:44.0	Well today I'd like to introduce you to another teammate,
0:48.0	Omaha Hundro Institute Executive Director Karen Wolf.
0:52.0	Now, Karen has a fairly long history with Ben Franklin's world.
0:55.1	She's been helping me out behind the scenes with this podcast since the summer of
0:59.3	2015. And Karen was among the first people to encourage me to think about this
1:04.1	podcast as a serious publication and a full-time job. Now, this was a really big
1:10.0	idea at the time because in my head Ben Franklin's world was just a serious hobby.
1:15.0	Something fun I did to me and interact with fellow lovers of the early American past.
1:20.0	Well, not long after Karen encouraged me to think of this podcast as a serious publication,
1:25.2	she made it possible for me to treat it like a serious publication.
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