Episode 083: Jared Hardesty, Unfreedom: Slavery in Colonial Boston

Colonial Bostonians practiced slavery. But slavery in Boston looked very different than slavery in the American south or in the Caribbean. Today, Jared Hardesty, an Assistant Professor of History at Western Washington University and author of Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston, takes us on a tour of slavery, and the lives enslaved people … Continue reading Episode 083: Jared Hardesty, Unfreedom: Slavery in Colonial Boston