BHS Podcast e136 - Royall Tyler and Vt. Slavery

Many believe slavery was never allowed in Vermont. Royall Tyler's time as Vt. Supreme Court Justice tells another story... The most “respectable” and well-to-do Vermont residents brazenly engaged in the support of slavery in our state. In this week’s show we hear the story of Brattleboro’s Royall Tyler, a judge whose outrageous ruling, in the case of an enslaved Windsor woman, betrayed the tenor of a society perfectly willing to accept double-standards along the dividing lines of class, sex and race.