Week of October 12: Joseph Abrams freed his own family
- Author
- Virginia Audio Collective
- Published
- Tue 12 Oct 2021
- Episode Link
- None
Episode Notes
This week in 1851... Joseph Abrams walked up to the Richmond courthouse. Today he was manumitting his slaves. All nine of them. But this was no ordinary transaction. And Joseph Abrams was no ordinary man. Only seven years earlier he himself had been enslaved.
