1 hr 2 min
017 - Open Skate on the Open Sea Shared History
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Season 2, baby! Cass and Nat are back with a vengeance...if a vengeance is the tale of the slave-catching schooner, HMS Black Joke, and a brief history of roller skating and how it owes everything to the African American community.
Follow Shared History on Twitter & Instagram and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
DYK you can support us on Patreon? Just become a patron of our network, Arcade Audio, and let ‘em know you love us.
HMS Black Joke + Ships it Captured
Empire Roller Disco
Sources for the HMS Black Joke story: Wikipedia, Daily Mail
Sources for the skating story: Vice, GroovyHistory.com, Journal of the Civil War Era Vol. 5, No. 2 - "We Do Not Care Particularly about the Skating Rinks": African American Challenges to Racial Discrimination in Places of Public Amusement in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Massachusetts - MILLINGTON W. BERGESON-LOCKWOOD
Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
About this podcast:
Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.
Season 2, baby! Cass and Nat are back with a vengeance...if a vengeance is the tale of the slave-catching schooner, HMS Black Joke, and a brief history of roller skating and how it owes everything to the African American community.
Follow Shared History on Twitter & Instagram and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
DYK you can support us on Patreon? Just become a patron of our network, Arcade Audio, and let ‘em know you love us.
HMS Black Joke + Ships it Captured
Empire Roller Disco
Sources for the HMS Black Joke story: Wikipedia, Daily Mail
Sources for the skating story: Vice, GroovyHistory.com, Journal of the Civil War Era Vol. 5, No. 2 - "We Do Not Care Particularly about the Skating Rinks": African American Challenges to Racial Discrimination in Places of Public Amusement in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Massachusetts - MILLINGTON W. BERGESON-LOCKWOOD
Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
About this podcast:
Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.
1 hr 2 min