Slavery and Its Legacies – Wendell Adjetey on Draft Resisters, the Cold War Underground Railroad and the Enduring Myth of Canada

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In this episode Yale PhD candidate Wendell Adjetey discusses how US draft resisters in the 1960s and 1970s, especially African Americans, employed the myth of Canada as the Promised Land and the rhetorical use of the Underground Railroad.