Resisting Trump’s Rewrite: Black Slave Labor’s Secret Strategies

24/08/2025 31 min Episodio 323
Resisting Trump’s Rewrite: Black Slave Labor’s Secret Strategies

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Episode Synopsis

This week on Labor History Today: the Solidarity Forever podcast explores how enslaved Black laborers resisted and strategized before the Civil War. At a time when the President attacks the Smithsonian for “focusing too much on slavery,” we’re keeping the people’s history—our history—alive.

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Music: I Be So Glad... When The Sun Goes Down (Ed Lewis) &
Oh Freedom! (The Golden Gospel Singers)
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