Follow the amazing life of Lethe Tanner, known today as Alethia Tanner, a woman born enslaved on the outskirts of Washington DC, who was able to purchase her own freedom.

Join me in this multi-part podcast, Lethe Tanner was here, as I delve into Lethe’s story from the plantation in Upper Marlboro, Maryland to the City of Washington, where she not only gains her freedom but finds enough financial successes to purchase and free over 18 family and friends from slavery. You’ll also hear about the environment in which she lived. The beginnings of a ‘less than rural’ City of Washington, the pandemics, the powerful politicians and powerbrokers, new immigrants, the racial grievances and the free and enslaved Black community. Alethia moved through it all. She began her life at the dawn of new country and lived just long enough to see the Emancipation Proclamation signed into law.

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Lethe Tanner was here.
Written, edited, and produced by Susan Cook

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