The Long Death of Slavery
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, and in the United States during the Civil War. 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 is a professor, author and historian. Kris joins Dan on the podcast 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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| 1:12.4 | I'm talking to Professor Chris Mangiapra. |
| 1:16.1 | We are talking about emancipation. |
| 1:18.6 | We are talking about the act of being freed from a state of enslavement. |
| 1:22.5 | In the Atlantic world in particular, |
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