Interview: Andrew Levy discusses Robert Carter's granting of freedom to his slaves

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Interview: Andrew Levy discusses Robert Carter's granting of freedom to his slaves

Host: LISA SIMEONE Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

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In 1791, a rich plantation owner in Virginia did something neither of his more famous contemporaries, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, were brave enough to do in their lifetimes. He freed his slaves. Robert Carter was one of the most powerful and educated men in the new American republic. But today, few people have ever heard of him and few historians have written about him. So an English professor, ...

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