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A Free Town

Human Resources by Sony Music

Nov 28, 202332:36Society & Culture

As abolitionist campaigns gained traction in the late 1700s, the population of formerly enslaved people grew. Those who had been enslaved in the British colonies were ‘freed’ - at first in dribs and drabs, then all at on...

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A Free Town is an episode from Human Resources by Sony Music. As abolitionist campaigns gained traction in the late 1700s, the population of formerly enslaved people grew. Those who had been enslaved in the British colonies were ‘freed’ - a...

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