Eleven Names Podcast: Recent Episodes
Wayne Tucker
This podcast is an AI conversion of articles from https://eleven-names.com. I used Anchor to convert my text into audio to make it accessible to a wider audience. These are stories that work to recover the names of enslaved people in Massachusetts.
How does slavery tie into the founding of Abington Massachusetts? And what does the town’s first minister have to do with a forgotten woodland gravesite that holds a Revolutionary War veteran and Wampanoag royalty? This episode is also available as a blog post: http://eleven-names.com/abington/
Thomas Dudley's grandson William enslaved Quam, Peter, Caesar, and Flora in Roslindale, Massachusetts. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://eleven-names.com/2021/08/19/dudleian-slavery-in-roslindale/
In which the Dudleys defend charges of a clandestine slave purchase and Paul Dudley's enslaved maid is baptized. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://eleven-names.com/2021/11/16/paul-dudley-pirates-epic-grift-and-a-baptism/
What can we glean about Governor Joseph Dudley's enslaved coachman, Brill? This episode is also available as a blog post: http://eleven-names.com/2021/08/19/joseph-dudley-and-brill-his-enslaved-coahcman/
While I have yet to find evidence that founding Massachusetts Governor Thomas Dudley owned slaves, Thomas did bequeath the balance of time of his imprisoned servant, Scottish POW John Rankin, to his wife. And I can offer clear evidence that Thomas Dudley’s son, grandsons, great-grandsons, and son-in-law were enslavers - and I can name those people.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://eleven-names.com/2021/11/12/eleven-names-an-introduction/