Podcasts History This Day in Esoteric Political History Missouri's Early Emancipation Proclamation (1861)

Missouri's Early Emancipation Proclamation (1861)

Published: Aug. 24, 2023, 8:30 a.m.

It\u2019s August 24th. This day in 1861, a Union general in Missouri issued an edict freeing all enslaved people in the territory \u2014 this some sixteen months before Lincoln would issue the formal Emancipation Proclamation.

\n\n

Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss why Missouri went rogue, the way in which frontier and border states lived in a sort of limbo during the Civil War \u2014 and what kind of fallout there was from the edict.

\n\n

Sign up for our newsletter! We\u2019ll be sending out links to all the stuff we recommended later this week.

\n\n

Find out more at thisdaypod.com

\n\n

This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

\n\n

Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories.

\n\n

If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.com

\n\n

Get in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Our website is\xa0thisdaypod.com\xa0Follow us on social @thisdaypod

\n\n

Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia