Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Presenting HISTORY This Week: William Parker’s War on Slave Catchers
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Presenting HISTORY This Week: William Parker’s War on Slave Catchers
For more overlooked stories from the past, check out HISTORY This Week wherever you get your podcasts!
On April 3, 1851, a man who escaped slavery to Boston was kidnapped by slave catchers. The Fugitive Slave Act turned cities across the North into hunting grounds. But resistance was growing. In Pennsylvania, William Parker was building a network to fight back.
_______________________
If you enjoy this episode, please text it to a friend! Help us get Points North out to more ears...
Join the Points North Fan Club today! For just $5/month, you can support the show you love, and we'll send you some cool Points North goodies in return.
Subscribe to the Points North Newsletter for more Great Lakes news. And follow us on Instagram.
View all episodes
By A Great Lakes Podcast
4.9
285285 ratings
For more overlooked stories from the past, check out HISTORY This Week wherever you get your podcasts!
On April 3, 1851, a man who escaped slavery to Boston was kidnapped by slave catchers. The Fugitive Slave Act turned cities across the North into hunting grounds. But resistance was growing. In Pennsylvania, William Parker was building a network to fight back.
_______________________
If you enjoy this episode, please text it to a friend! Help us get Points North out to more ears...
Join the Points North Fan Club today! For just $5/month, you can support the show you love, and we'll send you some cool Points North goodies in return.
Subscribe to the Points North Newsletter for more Great Lakes news. And follow us on Instagram.
More shows like Points North | Great Lakes. Great Stories.
View all
This American Life
90,994 Listeners
Radiolab
43,898 Listeners
Fresh Air
38,062 Listeners
Hidden Brain
43,528 Listeners
The Moth
26,984 Listeners
The Dirtbag Diaries
2,625 Listeners
Outside/In
1,483 Listeners
BirdNote Daily
1,255 Listeners
The Sporkful
3,938 Listeners
Outside Podcast
2,137 Listeners
Science Friday
6,435 Listeners
Sidedoor
2,252 Listeners
The Daily
111,948 Listeners
The Wild with Chris Morgan
3,422 Listeners
Short Wave
6,564 Listeners