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Resisting Trump’s Rewrite: Black Slave Labor’s Secret Strategies

Resisting Trump’s Rewrite: Black Slave Labor’s Secret Strategies

Update: 2025-08-24
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This week on Labor History Today: the Solidarity Forever podcast explores how enslaved Black laborers resisted and strategized before the Civil War. At a time when the President attacks the Smithsonian for “focusing too much on slavery,” we’re keeping the people’s history—our history—alive.



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Labor History Today is produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.



Music: I Be So Glad... When The Sun Goes Down (Ed Lewis) &

Oh Freedom! (The Golden Gospel Singers)


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Resisting Trump’s Rewrite: Black Slave Labor’s Secret Strategies

Resisting Trump’s Rewrite: Black Slave Labor’s Secret Strategies

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