322 Karen Cook-Bell, Running from Bondage in Revolutionary America
Publisher |
Airwave Media
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audio
Podknife tags |
History
Interview
Society & Culture
USA
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History
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Feb 15, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:54:46
During the War for American Independence, the British Army attempted to create chaos and inflict economic damage to the revolutionaries’ war effort by issuing two proclamations that promised freedom to any enslaved person who ran away from their revolutionary owners.

How did enslaved people make their escape to British lines? What do we know about their lives and escape experiences?

Karen Cook-Bell, an Associate Professor of History at Bowie State University and author of Running From Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America, joins us to investigate the experiences of enslaved women who feld their bondage for the British Army’s promise of freedom.

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