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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: The Mayflower of Liberia (1820)
Description: It’s Februrary 7th. On this day in 1820, 86 freed slaves boarded a ship from New York City headed to a region in West Africa that would soon come to be known as Liberia.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the “reverse Middle Passage” journey of the ship, the American Colonization Society, and tensions between anti-slavery groups and abolitionists.
Find a transcript of this episode at: https://tinyurl.com/esoterichistory
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