BHS Podcast e136 - Royall Tyler and Vt. Slavery
from Brattleboro Historical Society Podcast Hosted by Brattleboro Historical Society
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.
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