Freedom's Promise
Duchess Harris
Recent Episodes
- For more information about the Freedom's Promise books and the Duchess Harris Collection, visit http://www.abdobooks.com/duchess-harris-collection
- For more information about Duchess Harris, visit http://www.duchessharris.com/
- To request a text-document transcription of this episode, email [email protected]
- Duchess Harris: Writer and host
- Zach Thomas: Co-host
- Barry Madore, Fire on the Bluff Productions: Producer, recording engineer, editor
- Opening and closing music: "Black cat Funky" by reusenoise — http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/reusenoise/56513 — (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license
- Freedom's Promise Show page: http://freedomspromise.libsyn.com
Teen Zach Thomas and his mom, professor and author Duchess Harris, explore the story of the arrest in 1931 of nine falsely accused black teen boys in Scottsboro Alabama and the impact of the trials – spanning decades – that followed.
More info:
- For more information about the Freedom's Promise books and the Duchess Harris Collection, visit http://www.abdobooks.com/duchess-harris-collection
- For more information about Duchess Harris, visit http://www.duchessharris.com/
- To request a text-document transcription of this episode, email [email protected]
- "Strange Fruit," Billie Holiday, (c) 2009 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Freedom's Promise, podcast and radio series credits
- Duchess Harris: Writer and host
- Zach Thomas: Co-host
- Barry Madore, Fire on the Bluff Productions: Producer, recording engineer, editor
- Opening and closing music: "Black cat Funky" by reusenoise — http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/reusenoise/56513 — (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license
- Freedom's Promise Show page: http://freedomspromise.libsyn.com
In this episode of Freedom's Promise, Duchess and Zach continue their exploration of slavery in the United States. This time they talk about U.S. Presidents who owned slaves focusing specifically on the story of Oney Judge who was owned by our first president George Washington and his wife Martha and who used her ingenuity to escape.
More info:
- For more information about the Freedom's Promise books and the Duchess Harris Collection, visit http://www.abdobooks.com/duchess-harris-collection
- For more information about Duchess Harris, visit http://www.duchessharris.com/
- To request a text-document transcription of this episode, email [email protected]
Freedom's Promise, podcast and radio series credits
- Duchess Harris: Writer and host
- Zach Thomas: Co-host
- Barry Madore, Fire on the Bluff Productions: Producer, recording engineer, editor
- Opening and closing music: "Black cat Funky" by reusenoise — http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/reusenoise/56513 — (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license
- Freedom's Promise Show page: http://freedomspromise.libsyn.com
Zach takes over as host to interview his mom, Duchess Harris, about her book The Grand Contraband Camp. They discuss the various ways slaves gained their own freedom prior to the Emancipation Proclamation and relate the rarely told story of the Grand Contraband Camp where previously enslaved blacks lived freely in the South during the Civil War.
More info:
- For more information about the Freedom's Promise books and the Duchess Harris Collection, visit http://www.abdobooks.com/duchess-harris-collection
- For more information about Duchess Harris, visit http://www.duchessharris.com/
- "Follow the Drinking Gourd" with Taj Mahal, Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir appears on the recording, Shakin' A Tailfeather, (c) 1997 Music for Little People
- To request a text-document transcription of this episode, email [email protected]
Freedom's Promise, podcast and radio series credits
- Duchess Harris: Writer and host
- Zach Thomas: Co-host
- Barry Madore, Fire on the Bluff Productions: Producer, recording engineer, editor
- Opening and closing music: "Black cat Funky" by reusenoise — http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/reusenoise/56513 — (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license
- Freedom's Promise Show page: http://freedomspromise.libsyn.com
Duchess Harris and her son Zach present the story of the black women "hidden human computers" of NASA. Duchess' own grandmother -- Zach's great grandmother -- Miriam Daniel Mann was one of these amazing women who made significant contributions to NASA from the 1940s to the 1960s. They connect their personal family story to the history of the "space race" and discuss the obstacles blacks -- especially women -- faced in achieving a math and science education.
More info:
- For more information about the Freedom's Promise books and the Duchess Harris Collection, visit http://www.abdobooks.com/duchess-harris-collection
- For more information about Duchess Harris, visit http://www.duchessharris.com/
- "Whitey on the Moon" originally appeared on Gill Scott Heron's album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, 1970, (c) The Flying Dutchman Productions, Ltd.
- Full video of Nichelle Nichols' promotional film for NASA available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lca9_EDMcX0
- To request a text-document transcription of this episode, email [email protected]
Freedom's Promise, podcast and radio series credits
- Duchess Harris: Writer and host
- Zach Thomas: Co-host
- Barry Madore, Fire on the Bluff Productions: Producer, recording engineer, editor
- Opening and closing music: "Black cat Funky" by reusenoise — http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/reusenoise/56513 — (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license
- Freedom's Promise Show page: http://freedomspromise.libsyn.com