SELF-EMANCIPATION! Black Folk Fighting for Their OWN Independence!

05/07/2024 59 min Episodio 89
SELF-EMANCIPATION!  Black Folk Fighting for Their OWN Independence!

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Human Rights and Justice talk show features historian extraordinaire Dr. Daud Malik Watts, discussing with host Nkechi Taifa, tidbits from his upcoming latest book, “The Big Black Jailbreak:  African American History 1775-1865," describing astonishing numbers of Black Self-Emancipation, including jailbreaks in the American Revolution Period; Jailbreaks in Haitian Revolution Times; Jailbreaks of the 2nd Middle Passage Decades; Jailbreaks During King Cotton & Indian Removals; Jailbreaks of Abolitionism/UGRR/Fugitive Slave Law; and Jailbreaks through Civil War and Contraband Camps!