Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHAP 56 - African Personality - Edward Blyden
Episode 93
Edward Blyden gains appreciation for Islam in West Africa and gradually moves from political nationalism to cultural nationalism.
5 years, 6 months ago
HAP 55 - Planting the Seeds - James Africanus Beale Horton
Episode 92
Africanus Horton looks toward a future of self-government for West Africa beyond slavery and colonialism.
5 years, 6 months ago
HAP 54 - Wilson Moses on the Roots of Black Nationalism
Episode 91
Wilson Moses speaks to us about his research into early black notionalism, as represented by Crummell, Douglass, and others.
5 years, 7 months ago
HAP 53 - Pilgrim’s Progress - Alexander Crummell
Episode 90
Alexander Crummell moves from pan-Africanism to reform of African American culture, identifying progressive “civilization” as a means of liberation.
5 years, 7 months ago
HAP 52 - Great White North - Emigration to Canada
Episode 89
Mary Ann Shadd and Samuel Ringgold Ward reflect on what Canada can offer African Americans, differing on the problem of racism.
5 years, 8 months ago
HAP 51 - I Read Men and Nations - Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper
Episode 88
The moral crusades of Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper, activists against racial and gender oppression.
5 years, 8 months ago
HAP 50 - Nation Within a Nation - Martin Delany
Episode 86
He is called a “father of black nationalism,” but Martin Delany also promoted integration in American society. Can the apparent tension be resolved?
5 years, 9 months ago
HAP 49 - Let Your Motto Be Resistance - Henry Highland Garnet
Episode 87
Henry Highland Garnet encourages, or actually demands, that enslaved Americans throw off their chains and debates Douglass over how best to resist sl…
5 years, 9 months ago
HAP 48 - Happy Holidays - Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass
Episode 85
In two speeches marking holidays, Frederick Douglass champions the idea of world citizenship, the power of appeals to conscience to bring change, and…
5 years, 9 months ago
HAP 47 - Written by Himself - the Life of Frederick Douglass
Episode 84
Frederick Douglass' journey from slave to leading figure of 19th century American thought.
5 years, 10 months ago