The Grand Model - The Plantation Machine
The institution was ancient and universal. The machine was new. This episode traces how the specific apparatus of Atlantic slavery — industrial, permanent, hereditary, and racial — was assembled and c...
23 Okt 202124min
The Grand Model - Older Than Writing
Before we can understand what Carolina became, we have to understand the thing the Barbadians carried onto its shore — and it is far older and far stranger than the story usually told. This episode st...
16 Okt 202131min
The Grand Model - A Colony of a Colony
To understand Carolina, you have to leave it — and sail to a single small island in the eastern Caribbean. Carolina was not really founded from England; it was the child of Barbados. And Barbados, in ...
16 Okt 202122min
The Grand Model - Subject to Change
After Bacon’s Rebellion, a certain kind of Virginian gave up on the Chesapeake and looked south — to a coast the advertisements called empty, warm, and waiting. It was none of those things. It was the...
16 Okt 202123min
The First Revolution - War on the Water
The season ends on the water. Virginia is split in two, and the war turns on a single captured ship; then Jamestown burns, Bacon dies of disease in a swamp at twenty-nine, and an old governor hangs so...
16 Okt 202114min
The First Revolution - The Showdown
This is the scene the season has been building toward. Nathaniel Bacon comes down the James River with five hundred armed men; Governor William Berkeley, able to raise barely forty, throws open the ga...
9 Okt 202114min
The First Revolution - The Spark
It did not begin with a manifesto or a meeting. It began with an unpaid debt and some stolen pigs — and from that squalid little quarrel on the Virginia frontier, a chain of killings unwound that no o...
24 Jul 202114min
The First Revolution - What Was Left
In 1492, no one in the Old World had ever tasted a potato, smoked tobacco, or drunk a cup of chocolate — and no one in the Americas had ever seen a horse or a stalk of wheat. Then the wall between the...
24 Jul 202132min
