Clint shares a lesson about Maria Stewart who flouted the social conventions of her time and place and became a notable public speaker, thinker, and writer.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, August 20, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about the growth of the cotton industry, who benefited from it, and who was left out.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, August 13, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about group of enslaved people in Louisiana who rebelled, and the after effects would be felt in Louisiana and throughout the nation for decades.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, August 6, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about the experience of enslaved women, and how their experience of slavery was different than men.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, July 31, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about how Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 to enforce that clause, how enslavers throughout the country used that rule, and the long-term effects of this law.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, July 23, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about the 3/5 Clause and the Fugitive Slave clause, which entrenched the institution of slavery in the fundamental law of the new United States.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, July 10, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about the Black people took who took up arms on both sides of the American Revolution.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, July 2, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about a teenager who attained literacy and wrote poems that reached a large slice of the population and helped changed the ways that white Colonists thought about Black people.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, June 18, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about the Stono Rebellion, which was an uprising led by enslaved people in South Carolina in 1784.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, June 12, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about the Germantown Petition which gives us a better insight into slavery in the colonies and some of the earliest organized attempts at abolition.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, June 5, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about how Colonies put laws in place to restrict the movement and freedoms of both enslaved people and free Black people alike.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, May 29, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about how the legal system can be used to rectify injustices in the story of Elizabeth Key, who in 1665 won her freedom in a court in Virginia.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, May 22, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about the role that slavery played in early American economy and how slavery became a legally accepted practice in the first place, and how it contributed to the colony’s early economic success.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, May 15, 2021
Clint shares a lesson about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which brought millions of captive Africans to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries, with the largest number of people trafficked between 1700 and 1808.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, May 7, 2021