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.

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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.