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Podcast: Before Your Time
Episode: Princes and Free Men
Description: It’s well-known that Vermont is one of the whitest states in the Union. And so the stories of African American Vermonters can sometimes get forgotten, no matter how important they have been to our state’s and our nation’s history.
In this episode we examine the lives of several influential African American Vermonters who lived in our state before the Civil War. In two cases, before Vermont was even a state.
We learn about Lucy Terry Prince, who created the oldest known work of literature written by an African American; Alexander Twilight, the first per...