S1E7: "Like science fiction in reverse" w/Evie Shockley

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The Slave Is Gone: The Show That Talks Back to AppleTV+'s Dickinson

Jericho Brown, Brionne Janae, and Aífe Murray

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Acclaimed poets Jericho Brown and Brionne Janae join forces with “rogue scholar” Aífe Murray for a podcast that celebrates what works and breaks down what doesn’t in this award-winning and popular series. They interrogate what's historically and emotionally true in each episode of Dickinson -- and always bring it back to the poems that continue to intrigue, attract, and inspire.

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S1E7: "Like science fiction in reverse" w/Evie Shockley

The Slave Is Gone: The Show That Talks Back to AppleTV+'s Dickinson

51 minutes 13 seconds

2 years ago

S1E7: "Like science fiction in reverse" w/Evie Shockley

It’s Election Day, and Rep. Edward Dickinson is showing his true colors, culminating in a literal blow to Emily.

Was Edward Dickinson dead set against his daughter becoming a poet? Can his refusal to embrace abolitionism be traced to the fact that both his and his wife's family fortunes depended on enslaved labor? And if her family hadn't profited from slavery, would Emily Dickinson have had the space to write the poems we continue to revere?

Breezy, Jericho, and Aífe, joined by special guest, poet and scholar Evie Shockley, talk back to Season 1, Episode 7 of Dickinson: “We lose — because we win”

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Learn more about what our researcher Anna Smith uncovered about the ties between the Dickinsons' family wealth and enslavement:

A Racial History of Amherst College: "There Are No Good Billionaires, or the Trask-Dickinson Connection"

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Poems featured in this episode:

A Burdock—clawed my Gown by Emily Dickinson

daddy's girl by Evie Shockley

We lose—because we win by Emily Dickinson