11 episodes
American Carnage The Pottawatomie Rifles
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4.4 • 161 Ratings
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A podcast about the history of political violence in the United States, launching with a five-part series on the radical abolitionist John Brown.
"My new favorite history podcast, a wonderful mixture of dramatic narrative and searching analysis." — Jeet Heer, national political correspondent for The Nation
Episode 5 coming soon.
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SUBSCRIBERS: John Brown's Christmas raid
What was going through Brown's head at Harpers Ferry? The story of his remarkably successful raid into Missouri gives us clues.
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Bonus ep: Bleeding Kansas' Deadliest Day
In May 1858, a proslavery gang massacred 11 unarmed Free Staters in eastern Kansas. The incident sparked outrage, and led John Brown to embark one of his most daring exploits. The first of a two-part bonus series about John Brown's final months in Kansas.
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Ep 5: A great white light
What was it, exactly, about John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry that contributed to the abolition of slavery?
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Bonus ep: The forging of John Brown
An interview with a historian about Brown's formative years in Springfield, Mass.
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Ep 4: No ghost of a distinction
John Brown envisioned a mass slave uprising. So where were they?
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SUBSCRIBERS | John Brown's sexiest raider
The "dark, handsome Spartacus" of Harpers Ferry complicates arguments that religion was essential to the raid.
Customer Reviews
Rings familiar with other freedom struggles
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Great topic!
Could go with tighter asides during the analysis. Appreciate the injection of context and framing for events that are often much too sanitized intellectually. Hope y’all do more. Would be good to see major cultural/historical periods revisited like this.
Thank you!
What strikes me the most listening to your research is how skewed many of the accounts are of John Brown’s life and mission. After the culmination of your research, what truthful works would you recommend to learn more about John Brown. Thank you for this work and thank you for posing such thoughtful and insightful questions. It has given me a lot to think about.