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
The First Revolution - Two Men, One Colony
Before the rebellion there were two men, and the only way to understand what happened is to understand each of them. William Berkeley had governed Virginia for thirty years — grown it from a starving ...
24 Jul 202122min
