Episode 104 - SLAVERY: THE COSMPOLITAN HISTORY OF THE JUNETEENTH TABLE, AND MORE

Historian Dr Vashna Jaganarth joined me to explain why Juneteenth matters. We inevitably hear her brilliant narration of many complex aspects to the historical (formal) end to slavery in 1865. Along the way, she talks about the gaps between legal declarations of freedom, and forms of enslavement that continue thereafter. Unsurprisingly, who can access legal justice becomes a matter of class politics. Vashna spends a lot of delicious time on food, and what the lives of enslaved peoples ha...