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Lost Highways: Dispatches from the Shadows of the Rocky MountainsAuthor: History Colorado
History Colorados critically acclaimed podcast, Lost Highways: Dispatches from the Shadows of the Rocky Mountains, expands the history of the American West by exploring how overlooked stories from the past have shaped current world events and continue to impact our lives today. Each season, host Noel Black, producer and producers Maria Maddox and Dustin Hodge delve into stories from our shared past that we couldn't believe we'd never heard. Lost Highways is made possible by and a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by a founding grant from the Sturm Family Foundation. Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Slavery in the South(west)
Episode 8
Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
It’s often said that slavery is America’s original sin. But the kind of slavery most of us learn about in history class—the brutal, dehumanizing enslavement of Black people in the Southern states—wasn’t the only or even the first kind of bondage in the Americas. On this episode of Lost Highways, we look at a far-less institutionalized form of forced labor and servitude widely practiced in the American West. And as we’ll see, enslavement has taken many different forms. We’ll look at the ways power and economics in the Borderlands helped to perpetuate slavery in the United States long after its official abolition. We’ll also look at the ways this history of Indigenous slavery continues to affect descendants, some of whom struggle to reconcile their familial and genetic pasts with their sense of belonging in what has been their homeland for generations.
