The Fight Against American Slavery

In this podcast series we've focused on wars, music, movies, sporting events, and the Depression, but this time we examine Slavery in America. Occasionally the subject would be presented on radio during the golden age. We start with the 1957 CBS radio Workshop dramatization of Denmark Vesey, the early 19th century free Black leader in Charleston, South Carolina, who was accused and convicted of planning a major slave revolt. Then the 1940 story of Akron, Ohio's John Brown a militant abolitionist on Cavalcade of America. The 1944 Words at War drama about the astounding story of freed slave George Washington Carver. Cavalcade returns with 1949 story about the effort to end slavery in Minnesota. And finally, the story about the leader who took one of the first stands against slavery on the 1950 radio show Mr. President. Can you guess who he is?More at http://krobcollection.com