In celebration of Black History Month in the US, Frank and Susanne undertake EFTF's first two part episode!

In part one, Susanne introduces some prominent black historians and some of the subjects of their writing.

Warning: contains opinions of two aging liberals trying clumsily to be allies.

[Note From Susanne: I want to apologize for my occasional use of "slave" as a noun. Calling and enslaved person "a slave" reduces them to the property their enslavers believed them to be. I prefer the terms "enslaved person" and "enslaver" to "slave" and "master" but between the fact that doing my research I was immersed in language from an earlier time and that I always in the process of becoming a better ally, I slipped up more than I would have liked in this episode.]

[Note From Frank: Apologies for this being posted late. The research and editing for this two parter was challenging, and we thought it was more important to get it right than to get it Wednesday. I hope we did.]