in Season 1, Episode 1, the show’s “Rogue Scholar” Aífe Murray mentions Angeline Palmer, a Black girl in Amherst who was a contemporary of Emily Dickinson – and whose story highlights the vulnerability of “free” Black Americans at the time, and the ways they organized to defend themselves. We recorded a bonus episode (Dickinson Q & A: Black self-defense in the Yankee North — the story of Angeline Palmer) in which Aífe tells Angeline Palmer’s story in-depth, including the ways in which it intersects with that of the Dickinson family.
A few years later, most of this rabble had lost whatever convictions drove their violence. Even deluded demagogues renounced their youthful dreams.
Who among us does not feel the shadow of fear cast by the cowardly laws of these past years? The Scoundrel Laws terrorize not only those who might commit violence, but anyone who associates with them. They reward those who denounce their brothers and sisters, sowing distrust and ill-will. They freeze our hearts and our tongues, by punishing with prison anyone who provokes, praises, or merely seeks to understand those mad acts to which an insane society has driven a few poor souls.
Who among us does not feel the shadow of fear cast by the cowardly laws of these past years? The Scoundrel Laws terrorize not only those who might commit violence, but anyone who associates with them. They reward those who denounce their brothers and sisters, sowing distrust and ill-will. They freeze our hearts and our tongues, by punishing with prison anyone who provokes, praises, or merely seeks to understand those mad acts to which an insane society has driven a few poor souls.
Who among us does not feel the shadow of fear cast by the cowardly laws of these past years? The Scoundrel Laws terrorize not only those who might commit violence, but anyone who associates with them. They reward those who denounce their brothers and sisters, sowing distrust and ill-will. They freeze our hearts and our tongues, by punishing with prison anyone who provokes, praises, or merely seeks to understand those mad acts to which an insane society has driven a few poor souls.
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Recommended Readings:
- Cliff McCarthy: The Story of Angeline Palmer from “Documenting Black Lives in the Early Connecticut River Valley”
- The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Black Pioneers and the
Struggle for Equality by Anna-Lisa Cox - Black Yankees, The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England by William D. Piersen