Slavery and Its Legacies: Episode #11, with Wendell Adjetey

June 2, 2017

Draft Resisters and the Enduring Myth of Canada as the Promised LandIn this episode, Yale PhD candidate Wendell Adjetey discusses how US draft resisters in the 1960s and 1970s, especially African Americans, employed the myth of Canada as the Promised Land and the rhetorical use of the Underground Railroad.


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