Lethe Tanner was here

Follow the amazing life of Lethe Tanner, known today as Alethia Tanner, a woman born enslaved on the outskirts of Washington DC, who was able to purchase her own freedom.Join me in this multi-part podcast, Lethe Tanner was here, as I delve into Lethe’s story from the plantation in Upper Marlboro, Maryland to the City of Washington, where she not only gains her freedom but finds enough financial successes to purchase and free over 18 family and friends from slavery. You’ll also hear about the environment in which she lived. The beginnings of a ‘less than rural’ City of Washington, the pandemics, the powerful politicians and powerbrokers, new immigrants, the racial grievances and the free and enslaved Black community. Alethia moved through it all. She began her life at the dawn of new country and lived just long enough to see the Emancipation Proclamation signed into law.For more information, please visit - LetheTannerwashere.comLethe Tanner was here.Written, edited, and produced by Susan CookJoseph Dougherty was voiced by Damien Burke. Please find Damien at https://www.fiverr.com/damo161?

Episode 1 lays the foundations for the economic structures, the cultural practices, and the changing land and peoples that inhabit the world into which Lethe Tanner was born. Providing the context to later understand and appreciate the journey that Alethia took towards her self-empowerment and that of her community.SOURCES FOR EPISODE 1  can be found on LetheTannerWasHere.comHelp support the Lethe Tanner Was Here podcast, by subscribing on the LETHE TANNER WAS HERE Patreon page. I'm just getting it going but will be posting additional information, research updates, and questions and answers. Thank you!!………Lethe Taner Was Here was researched, written, edited, produced, and narrated by Susan Cook.........Special thanks to all the voices who helped bring this episode to life.So first, thanks to Patricia Williams, my lovely neighbor who read a passage from Margaret Walker’s poem, For My People.To the amazing Medicine Singers whose track Sunset I have used in this episode. They sing in an Eastern Algonquin dialect, so I’m thrilled to be able to use their song.Thanks to my dear friend Robin Kouyate and her beautiful daughter Jasmine for their voices.And to the wonderful voice over actors whom you can find on fiverr.com. They are Linton Tulloch Richard Stibbard Peter Walters Grace Jensen Soraya Martin TJ Trueh I want to give a special thanks to TJ who read the list of inventory which given the content was a difficult ask. But he gave it such beautiful and soulful reading that really gave the proper homage to those people who were enslaved.....