We Never Asked to be Here: The Birth of American Slavery

Black Women in Chains

The unique suffering and strength of enslaved Black women. Additional Reading: Reproductive Resistance - Reproduction and Resistance - Lowcountry Digital History Initiative Day-to-Day Resistance - Everyday Acts of Resistance - Lowcountry Digital History Initiative Poisoning as Resistance - Poisoning as Resistance - Stanford Gender News Enslaved Women in Shipboard Revolts - Women of the African Slave Resistance - JSTOR Daily Quilting as Resistance - Gee's Bend Quilts - Record Patriot

We Never Asked to be Here: The Birth of American Slavery

The start of the transatlantic slave trade and its impact including The Middle Passage. The horrors and trauma of slavery.

Uhhhh....About 1492

Columbus, colonialism, and the beginning of oppression.

Welcome to The Unheard History Podcast: A Black Woman’s History of America

Introduction to the podcast. What we are about and what to look forward to!