In today's podcast, I focus on examples of loss of liberty. The first is JS Bach being imprisoned for having the effrontery of asking his employer to let him go so he could seek a more lucrative employment elsewhere. It’s shocking that one of the world’s greatest musicians was considered to be property. Of course NO ONE should be considered to be property! A friend of his, a mere horn player, was hung for a similar infraction. 120 years later, Chopin spent a hone...
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In today's podcast, I focus on examples of loss of liberty. The first is JS Bach being imprisoned for having the effrontery of asking his employer to let him go so he could seek a more lucrative employment elsewhere. It’s shocking that one of the world’s greatest musicians was considered to be property. Of course NO ONE should be considered to be property! A friend of his, a mere horn player, was hung for a similar infraction. 120 years later, Chopin spent a hone...
Tom's Podcast #40: Conversation with Dorothy Neuhaus, a Good Citizen
Tom's Podcast
43 minutes
2 years ago
Tom's Podcast #40: Conversation with Dorothy Neuhaus, a Good Citizen
When people ask me why I care so much about the social justice issues surrounding chocolate, particularly issues of child slavery and worst forms of child labor as well as environmental issues associated with the destruction of virgin forests throughout West Africa, my usual answer has been associated with a course that I taught as a professor at California State Polytechnic University. However, recently I have re-thought that answer and decided that my mother Dorothy accounts for at le...
Tom's Podcast
In today's podcast, I focus on examples of loss of liberty. The first is JS Bach being imprisoned for having the effrontery of asking his employer to let him go so he could seek a more lucrative employment elsewhere. It’s shocking that one of the world’s greatest musicians was considered to be property. Of course NO ONE should be considered to be property! A friend of his, a mere horn player, was hung for a similar infraction. 120 years later, Chopin spent a hone...
