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Life and Revolution in Boston, Grenada

September 4, 2019 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldWhat can a family history tell us about revolutionary and early republic America?

What can the letters of a wife and mother tell us about life in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions?

In this episode of Ben Franklin’s World, we join Susan Clair Imbarrato, a Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead and author of Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada: Shifting Fortunes of an American Family, 1753-1825 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), to discover more about the letters of Sarah Gray Cart and what they reveal about how she and her family experienced the American Revolution on the island of Grenada. [Read more…] about Life and Revolution in Boston, Grenada

Filed Under: History Tagged With: American Revolution, AmRev, Boston, Caribbean, Early America, Early American History, Genealogy, Grenada, Podcasts

Mixed-Race Britons & the Atlantic Family

May 8, 2019 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldWho do we count as family? It a relative was born in a foreign place and one of their parents was of a different race? Would they count as family?

Eighteenth-century Britons asked themselves these questions. As we might suspect, their answers varied by time and whether they lived in Great Britain, North America, or the Caribbean. [Read more…] about Mixed-Race Britons & the Atlantic Family

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: British Empire, Caribbean, Colonial History, Early American History, Jamaica, Podcast, Slavery

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