The 54-ton schooner named the Pearl sailed into the history books on April 15, 1848 when 77 enslaved Americans attempted an escape to freedom. Mary Kay Ricks, author of Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad gives this stirring account of human resilience against the backdrop of oppression.
Guest: Mary Kay Ricks, author of “Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad”
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Frederick Douglass, the renowned orator, statesman, and abolitionist and a prominent leader in a colony of England, now known as the United States of America, moved our new nation, led by so-called “white” people who...
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The second installation of modern New England journalists who exposed the North’s hidden history as a slave region. They also address king cotton and the legal and illegal slave trade. Journalist and co-author of Comp...
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New England journalist and co-author of Complicity Anne Farrow exposes how the North rewrote the history of U. S. slavery to blame the South and hide its insidious role in the perpetuation of slavery. Was the first co...
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Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour continues his discussion of Black history and culture. He details the effects of “slave values” on the African-American psyche and says that this slave mentality is the central crippling force i...
