The Edge of Empire - Each for itself
In May 1754, a Philadelphia printer cut a snake into pieces and told his fellow colonists to join, or die. That summer, as the first shots of a world war crackled in the Ohio woods, the colonies were ...
25 Joulu 202217min
The Edge of Empire - Ohio Country
In 1737, three runners set off through the Pennsylvania woods in a rigged footrace that stripped the Lenape of a million acres — and the men who lost their homeland were never once asked. This is the ...
25 Joulu 202217min
The Edge of Empire - New England’s Conquest
In 1745, an army of New England farmers, fishermen, and shopkeepers — not one of them a trained soldier — sailed six hundred miles north to do the impossible: take Louisbourg, the strongest fortress i...
25 Joulu 202232min
The Edge of Empire - Expended
It started with a pickled ear in a jar, held up before the House of Commons — and it ended by quietly destroying the one colony built to be different. When England went to war with Spain in 1739, Gene...
25 Joulu 202215min
The Edge of Empire - The Road South
Before dawn on September 9th, 1739, a man named Jemmy led twenty enslaved Africans against a store on the Stono River, took the guns off its shelves, and turned south for Spanish Florida and the freed...
4 Joulu 202217min
The Edge of Empire - A Different Kind of Place
By 1738 the colony of Georgia is five years old and bleeding settlers across the river to South Carolina — because Georgia, alone in British America, forbids slavery, rum, lawyers, great estates, and ...
23 Heinä 202218min
The Edge of Empire - Debatable Land
A generation after the Yamasee War nearly destroyed it, South Carolina has become something new on the American mainland: the first colony where the enslaved outnumber the free two to one — a Caribbea...
23 Heinä 202220min
Wars Within Wars - Borrowed Guns
France built the opposite of Carolina. Where the English ran their frontier through free-lance traders who cheated and enslaved the nations they lived among, the French in Louisiana learned the langua...
23 Heinä 202219min
