360 Kyera Singleton, Slavery and Freedom in Massachusetts

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

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

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. We choose to reflect on the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, because, on June 19, 1865, United States General Gordon Granger issued his General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, informing Texans that all slaves are free.

Juneteenth may feel like it is a mid-19th-century moment, but the end of slavery didn’t just occur on one day or at one time. And it didn’t just occur in the mid-19th century. The fight to end slavery was a long process that started during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Kyera Singleton, the Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts, has spent years researching the lives of the enslaved people who lived and worked on the Royall Plantation and the significant contributions they made to ending slavery in Massachusetts. Kyera joins us to investigate the story of slavery and freedom within the first state in the United States to legally abolish slavery.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:04.1	Ben Franklin's World is a production of Colonial Williamsburg Innovation Studios.
0:08.7	Hello and welcome to episode 360 of Ben Franklin's World.
0:22.3	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our
0:26.6	early American past have shaped the present-day world we live in.
0:30.6	And I'm your host, Liz Covart.
0:33.4	Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the end of slavery in the United
0:37.1	States.
0:38.5	We choose to reflect on the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, because on
0:42.6	June 19, 1865, United States General Gordon Granger issued his general order number three
0:48.7	in Galveston, Texas, informing Texans that all slaves are free.
0:53.6	Now the way we study historical periods may make Juneteenth feel like it's a mid-nineteenth
0:58.3	century moment, a moment that is beyond the scope of Ben Franklin's world.
1:02.5	But the end of slavery didn't just occur on one day or at one time.
1:06.8	It didn't even just occur in the mid-nineteenth century.
1:09.9	The fight to end slavery was a long process that started during the 17th and 18th centuries.
1:16.6	Cara Singleton is the executive director of the Royal House in slave quarters in Medford,
1:21.0	Massachusetts.
1:22.4	She's also a historian who's finishing her doctoral degree in American culture at
1:26.4	the University of Michigan.
1:28.6	Cara and her colleagues have spent years researching the lives of the enslaved people who
1:32.9	lived and worked on the royal plantation and the significant contributions those people
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