Philly People, Now Deceased: A History Podcast Michiko and Leonard

After 1.5 YEARS...(thank you pandemic) we have new content! Join Michiko and guest Co-Host Philly Historian Michael Idriss as we dive into the life of the incredible, indomintabile, brilliant Hetty Reckless. NOTE: And also sign this petition sign this petition created by students at NEHS to have Black Women's names added to the Pennsylvania Female Anti-Slavery Society plaque. https://www.change.org/p/tom-wolf-help-to-add-a-black-woman-s-name-to-the-philadelphia-fema...

Today we’re talking about a place that is gone gone gone, not a person. Join history Professor Kristen O-Brassill-Kulfan, expert on poverty and prisons in the early American republic, and Candace McKinley, Lead Organizer for the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund, as we discuss the prison you didn’t know existed - Arch Street Prison, Vagrancy, and the Cholera Epidemic of 1832. Support the Show.

Join us as we discuss Philadelphian Samuel Morton who set out to prove racial inferiority based on skull sizes. Guest Co-Host Nathaniel Miller joins Michiko as we look at Morton's skull measuring methods, a little bit about the potential origins of black-face mummers, and a smattering of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Dumas, and repatriation of the remains of enslaved people.References: Take Action: Change.org petition https://www.change.org/p/president-of-university-of-penn-and-boar...

In Episode 7 we look at the life of oilman William Gray Warden, the South Philly Atlantic Refinery he built that has been exploding since 1860, the gas layer under our streets and how one unsung hero prevented Philnobyl. Support the Show.

Thanks for joining Episode 5. Today we discuss James Forten, one of the richest men in Philadelphia in the early 1800s. Born a free African American in 1766, James Forten loved his country, and lived most of his teens on ships; ranging from the infamous prison ship the HMS Jersey, to the Commerce, to many many other ships that he outfitted with sails. He lived to become one of the most pre-eminent Philadelphians and Abolitionists of our time.Support the Show.

Thanks for Joining Episode 2 of the Philly People Now Deceased Podcast. In this episode we discuss the zombie apocalypse of 1793 aka Yellow Fever and the heroic efforts of Philly’s free black community, led by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones to nurse the sick.Support the Show.