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Phillip Seitz - Part 1 - Jim and Aaron Fight Back

I spoke with Phillip at his home in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia. He told the story of two Whitehall plantation slaves owned by Benjamin Chew, Jim 18 years old and Aaron 16 years old, who seek retribution on Overseer George Ford. Although Jim and Aaron are punished, their action provided the other slaves a brief respite from their brutal conditions. Learn more about Phillip's work at his website, TheHistoryteller.

 

 

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Phillip Seitz - Prelude

Telling the first of three stories Phillip Seitz, Social Historian, worked for 9 years at Cliveden, located in the Philadelphia neighborhood, Germantown. During that time an enormous number of the Chew Family Papers were discovered and turned over to The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Included in those papers were letters Benjamin Chew received from the overseer of his plantation in the state of Delaware. We talked in his Mt. Airy neighborhood home.

You can read more of Phillip's work at TheHistoryteller.

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