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When we think of California, we might think about sunny weather, Hollywood, beaches, wine country, and perhaps the Gold Rush.
What we don’t usually think about when we think about California is the state’s long history of slavery.
Jean Pfaelzer, a Californian and a Professor Emerita of English, Asian Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware, joins us to lead us through some of California’s long 250-year history of slavery with details from her book, California: A Slave State.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/387
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When we think of California, we might think about sunny weather, Hollywood, beaches, wine country, and perhaps the Gold Rush.
What we don’t usually think about when we think about California is the state’s long history of slavery.
Jean Pfaelzer, a Californian and a Professor Emerita of English, Asian Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware, joins us to lead us through some of California’s long 250-year history of slavery with details from her book, California: A Slave State.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/387
Complementary Episodes
🎧 Episode 014: West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
🎧 Episode 067: An Environmental History of Early California and Hawaii
🎧 Episode 115: The Early American History of Texas
🎧 Episode 139: The Other Slavery: Indian Enslavement in the Americas
🎧 Episode 233: A History of Russian America
🎧 Episode 277: Whose Fourth of July?
🎧 Episode 312: The Domestic Slave Trade
🎧 Episode 371: An Archive of Indigenous Slavery
🎧 Episode 384: Making Maine: A Journey to Statehood
REQUEST A TOPIC
📨 Topic Request Form
WHEN YOU'RE READY
🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter
👩💻 BFW Listener Community
🌍 The History Explorers Club
LISTEN
🍎 Apple Podcasts
💚 Spotify
🎶 Amazon Music
🛜 Pandora
CONNECT
🦋 Liz on Bluesky
👩💻 Liz on LinkedIn
🛜 Liz’s Website
SAY THANKS
💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts
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