Episode 171
E168: Christian McBurney: Rhode Island Acts to Prevent and Enslaved Family from Being Transported South
Dispatches: The Podcast of the Journal of the American Revolution · Dispatches
June 5, 202228m 5s
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Show Notes
This week our guest is author and JAR contributor Christian McBurney. On the eve of Revolution a NC slaver tried to transport an enslaved family south. The legislature of Rhode Island stopped it in a major step toward emancipation and abolition. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.