S8 Ep721: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY. GUEST. Professor Daniel Roode discusses Anthony Johnson, an African-born man who achieved freedom and wealth in early Virginia before the legal formalization of racial enslavement restricted opportunities for his descendants onwar
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
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PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY. GUEST. Professor Daniel Rood discusses Anthony Johnson, an African-born man who achieved freedom and wealth in early Virginia before the legal formalization of racial enslavement restricted opportunities for his descendants onwards (6)
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| 0:30.9 | This is John Batchelor, conversation with the author and Professor Daniel Rood, |
| 0:35.5 | University of Georgia, his new book, In the Shadow of the Great House, |
| 0:39.2 | The Plantation System over 400 years. Here the professor describes the success of one Anthony Johnson, |
| 0:47.2 | who is born in Africa, Antonio, and arrives in 1619, but there were laws against African Americans, the enslaved African Americans. |
| 1:00.0 | Owning land and owning property and being free were not described yet in detail. |
| 1:05.4 | And so therefore, Anthony Johnson, won his freedom, gained a 250-acre farm, according to the professor's reporting, |
| 1:13.4 | and his family did very well before it was ruled improper for an African-American, an African |
| 1:21.0 | coming to this country as an enslaved person or being enslaved here, could own land and |
| 1:27.0 | testify in court and be a free man. |
| 1:29.9 | Here's the professor. |
| 1:31.2 | There's two hours of this. |
| 1:32.6 | This is the first hour of a conversation about in the shadow of the great house, the plantation system, |
| 1:39.1 | 400 years of it, including here in the 21st century. |
| 1:43.5 | More later. |
| 1:45.5 | Daniel Rood. |
| 1:46.5 | Anthony Johnson, if I recall correctly, was actually born in Africa and brought across |
| 1:52.1 | the Atlantic on a slaving vessel, arrives in 1619. |
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