Even After Slavery Separated Them, They Refused To Be Lost

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Dust kicked up behind their bare feet, leaving their former plantations in its wake. Some held baskets, others children and babies. But hundreds of miles of walking would be worth getting to see their loved ones again. _____________ 2-Minute Black History is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. The production team for this podcast includes Cydney Smith, Len Webb, and Lilly Workneh. Our editors are Lance John and Avery Phillips from Gifted Sounds Network. Julian Walker serves as executive producer." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Must remember do not forget
0:08.0	remind me to bring photo ID
0:11.0	reminder set babe can you make sure I don't forget Photo ID. Reminder, set.
0:13.0	Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote?
0:17.0	All right, love.
0:20.0	However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May.
0:24.7	Find out more at Electoralcommission.org.
0:27.0	UK slash voter ID. Dust kicked up behind their bare feet, leaving their former plantations in its wake.
0:41.0	Some held baskets, others children and babies, but hundreds of miles of walking would be worth
0:47.0	getting to see their loved ones again.
0:51.0	This is two minute black history, what you didn't learn in school. Though the transatlantic slave trade ended in 1808. A new phase of enslavement was on the horizon,
1:17.0	the domestic slave trade. Driven by rocketing broke in the cotton industry, this horror turned many families to
1:26.1	resistant networks like the Underground Railroad seeking their escape.
1:31.9	Because planters sought to transport enslaved people from the upper to lower south, over 50% of parents
1:39.1	and children were separated. A third of marriages were destroyed. This rupture in chosen and familial communities
1:47.4	left many searching for lost loved ones long after slavery's abolition.
1:53.2	Roads filled with the roads filled with those walking hundreds of miles to reunite with their loved ones,
2:07.0	leaving or returning to the South.
2:10.0	Queering letters were read from church to church seeking information and newspapers distributed
2:16.6	wanted ads.
2:18.1	Some even wrote to the Freedmen's Bureau.
2:21.6	After surviving a system that deemed them inhuman objects whose purpose was free labor,
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