The Welsh and American Slavery
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Programme Two
1776 - 1841
Jerry Hunter,on board the Amistad
Many black Americans have Welsh surnames because early settlers from Wales owned slaves; but by the end of the 18th century, some of the Welsh settlers who followed them started to oppose slavery. What was responsible for this change of attitude?
In the second programme of this series Dr. Jerry Hunter will try to answer this question, by visiting the home of a Welsh slave master in Savannah, and the hall in Philadelphia where abolition of Slavery was first discussed.
He will look at the key role played by Robert Everett in changing the opinion of Welsh people about slavery, ending with the famous Amistad incident in Connecticut, when fifty slaves gained their freedom in American courts.
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