The Long Death of Slavery

American History Hit

History Hit

America, History

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate abolition - in the United States during the Civil War and on Juneteenth, in Haiti after the revolution, and in the British Empire in 1833. Yet, over the approximately 100 years in which there were various moments of emancipation, these processes often provided failed pathways to justice for people who had been enslaved.

Kris Manjapra joins Dan Snow on our sister podcast, Dan Snow's History Hit, to unearth disturbing truths about the Age of Emancipations, 1780-1880. They discuss examples of emancipations across the Americas, Europe and Africa where Black people were dispossessed by the very moves that were meant to free them.

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Don Wildman here for American History Hit. Welcome.
0:05.0	It's Juneteenth here in the United States,
0:08.0	our national holiday commemorating the final end of the institution of slavery in America.
0:13.0	In January 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation
0:17.0	had freed millions of enslaved souls across the South,
0:20.0	on paper at least.
0:22.0	The fuller reality of freedom of course wouldn't come until
0:24.6	Union victory and even then there were places in the country where slavery still
0:28.8	existed. In Texas over a quarter of a million enslaved people waited more than two years until
0:34.2	1865, and two months after Lee surrendered at Appamatics, when 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston
0:42.0	to announce their freedom by executive decree.
0:45.0	June 19, 1865, Juneteenth, it was called, and to mark this day we've pulled an episode out of the archive of our sister podcast, Dan Snow's
0:55.2	history hit, about the end of the institution of slavery and its stubborn refusal to go quietly
1:00.0	into the night.
1:01.0	Dan is joined by Chris Manjapra, professor, author, and historian to find out
1:05.4	about the age of emancipation across the Americas, Europe, and Africa. Enjoy.
1:10.1	Enjoy. go on the pod. It's great to be here. I'm so happy to have this chance to talk with you Dan.
1:24.6	Here's a big question. What do we mean when we talk about emancipation?
1:29.4	Yeah, great question. So emancipation is the process of freeing enslaved people from slavery at a basic level.
1:38.0	Interestingly, the term itself comes from the Latin word which means to let free from the hand and this was used in the ancient times
1:46.4	What's interesting about this though is who was letting the enslaved free from their hand, right?
1:52.8	It was obviously the slave owners.
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