A Small Southern Town: The Nation's Capital In Slave Times

Summary:

Dramatization - largest mass-escape of slaves in Amer history - PROMOS ATTACHED

Website:

http://www.rlpaulproductions.com/doc.html

Timely on:

February: Black History Month

Tones:

Delicate, Surprising, Unconventional

Language:

English

Description:

Hear the first person accounts of people who lived in slavery; the voices of those who worked to end slavery and those who strove to keep it in "A Small Southern Town: The Nation's Capital In Slave Times."

In this special designed for African American History Month, listeners will hear of one family's role in one of the largest mass escapes of slaves in American history.

"A Small Southern Town" combines dramatic readings of first person accounts from slave times with modern day analysis to shed light on little known aspects of slave life and slave times in the Nation's Capital.
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Richard Paul offers these suggestions for reading on subjects covered in his two-part program on slavery:

    * Arguing About Slavery, by William Lee Miller. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, c. 1996. Available at bookstores.
    * Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton: For Four Years and Four Months A Prisoner (For Chairty's Sake) In Washington Jail including A Narrative Of the Voyage and Capture Of The Schooner Pearl. Published by Negro Universities Press, c. 1855. Available at the DC Historical Society.
    * Fugitives of the Pearl, by John Paynter. Published by Associated Publishers, Inc., Washington, DC, c. 1930. Available at the DC Historical Society.
    * The Life of Josiah Henson, Formally a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, by Josiah Henson, c. 1849. Available at the Montgomery County Historical Society.

Newspaper Articles

    * "Uncle Tom's Montgomery County Cabin" by Michael Richman, The Washington Post, Wednesday December 10, 1997; Horizon section; Pg. H05
    * "Escape on the Pearl: Years Before the Civil War, 77 Washington Slaves Made a Risky Bid for Freedom" by Mary Kay Ricks, The Washington Post, Wednesday August 12, 1998; Horizon section; pg. H01

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