Episode 058: Slavery and Liberty

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

For most of the colonial period, slavery is surprisingly uncontroversial. As the American Revolution begins, colonists start to question the institution of slavery In the north, broad acceptance of slavery evaporates quickly after patriots demand that all men are born basic rights to liberty. Even in the north, slavery would not end for many more years though. In the south, where slave are much more critical to the economy, colonists prove unwilling to bend on the issue. Many in the deep south support the Patriot movement out of concern that Parliament might someday try to emancipate slaves in the British colonies. Visit my site at https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this topic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.0	Hello.
0:35.0	Hello. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution. Today
0:48.4	episode 58 slavery and liberty. In 1773 and 1774 the people of Massachusetts
0:57.9	submitted numerous petitions in defense of their rights and
1:01.2	natural liberties.
1:03.0	Now among these petitions were several submitted by slaves asking for an end to slavery.
1:09.5	The governor and legislature rejected these petitions out of hand if they considered them at all.
1:15.9	So by themselves they have little significance, but they are part of a larger effort by slaves
1:21.7	to demand reconsideration of their status in society.
1:25.2	And the petitions gave me the opportunity to talk about the status of slaves and
1:30.4	how the revolution began to change things.
1:33.0	Now I haven't really discussed slavery much at all so far,
1:36.0	and was rather reluctant to address it in this episode as well.
1:41.0	Now today, of course course there's near universal agreement
1:44.4	that slavery was a bad thing, but coverage of the topic is still controversial in
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