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Interchange – The Skin Off His Back: Exposing the North to Slavery’s Lash (Air Date: 1/8/19)

February 11, 2020 Comments Off on Interchange – The Skin Off His Back: Exposing the North to Slavery’s Lash (Air Date: 1/8/19)

This episode originally aired on January 8, 2019. In November 2016 today’s guest, Bruce Laurie, published an essay called ‘”Chaotic Freedom” in Civil War Louisiana: The Origins of an Iconic Image.’ This image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter,” who is turned away showing his …

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Interchange – The Skin Off His Back: Exposing the North to Slavery’s Lash

January 9, 2019 Comments Off on Interchange – The Skin Off His Back: Exposing the North to Slavery’s Lash

We open with “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” performed by Odetta off of the 1959 album My Eyes Have Seen. The “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” also known as “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory,” is a lyric by the American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song “John Brown’s Body.” The final stanza includes the …

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