Episode 29: The Contradiction

Missing Pages · Sep 4, 2026 · 1h 10m · transcript

While the American Revolution provided a voice to a people who longed to break free from the toke of the British Government. However, while they decried the slavery they faced from the King, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children remained in chains. This contradition was well understood, but the response to this knowledge did not provide a clear path towards its remedy. It would take nearly a century for this moral stain to begin to be addressed.

As has been discussed in previous eras, slavery in the American colonies did not have a universal character even if it was universally…