All information gathered from Before Knox and the Knox College website, with music procured from Music by Joystock – https://www.joystock.org
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All information gathered from Before Knox and the Knox College website, with music procured from Music by Joystock – https://www.joystock.org
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Annemarie— That intro music is amazing and dramatically suspenseful! I really liked how you framed this episode with a few guiding questions; this is always a good approach to help your listeners stay connected with your narrative. I learned so much about Knox’s history and how the history of slavery is deeply entangled with the history of colonialism. These are important issues that are not always put in conversation with one another, and so I deeply appreciated your deep dive into this history! As you describe in your episode, it is important to grapple with how Knox College benefitted (and continues to benefit) from displacement of the region’s Indigenous communities. There is much work to be done on how the history of abolition (which often emphasizes an “inclusive” or “universal” discourse surrounding equality), continued to perpetuate systems of exclusion and oppression for others. Your episode reminded me that it is necessary to recognize that abolition, and ideas about racial equality, were severely limited. On top of this, the issue of Indigenous sovereignty adds another layer of complexity to this history, because Native Americans were not only racialized, but perceived as a threat to US nationhood because they were/are sovereign nations.
I hope you enjoyed the process of recording and producing this episode using Audacity! I know the technology had a bit of a learning curve, but hopefully this experience sparked your interest in other ways of “doing” history!