We continue to celebrate Black History Month on From The Vault by presenting the next two episodes of a compelling radio adaptation of WBAI-Pacifica Radio host Julius Lester’s book To Be A Slave, which weaves together the culture and history of American slavery through voice readings from a compilation narrative of ex-slaves. Chronicling the slave experience on a very intimate level, this audio production of Lester’s 1968 work challenges the emotional and moral boundaries of listeners with first-person accounts of slavery – incorporating original language and language patterns as written by abolitionists, historians, and slaves themselves over the past 200 years. This program was originally produced in the 1980’s by Ahna Armour for the KPFK radio series Morning Reading, and is now broadcast again for the first time in nearly thirty years.
From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio listeners.
First broadcast on Friday, February 17, 2012.
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