<p>Graduate student Maddie outlines the intimidating role of an expensive, high-powered weapon in the massacre and coup of 1898. The almost -100-pound rapid-fire gun may not have taken many lives on November 11, but it was given place of privilege in the white supremacist plans to take over Wilmington. </p>

Graduate student Maddie outlines the intimidating role of an expensive, high-powered weapon in the massacre and coup of 1898. The almost -100-pound rapid-fire gun may not have taken many lives on November 11, but it was given place of privilege in the white supremacist plans to take over Wilmington.

<p>Graduate student Maddie outlines the intimidating role of an expensive, high-powered weapon in the massacre and coup of 1898. The almost -100-pound rapid-fire gun may not have taken many lives on November 11, but it was given place of privilege in the white supremacist plans to take over Wilmington.&nbsp;</p>

1898 Wilmington: Colt Browning M1895 (The Potato Digger)

The stuff of history is all around us—it’s in what we eat and wear, where we live and play, and how we work and travel. 
The Object Project is a podcast about material culture and history, produced by history students of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, in Wilmington, NC, and Dr. Jennifer Le Zotte, assistant professor of US history and material culture.

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The stuff of history is all around us—it’s in what we eat and wear, where we live and play, and how we work and travel. The Object Project is a podcast about material culture and history, produced by history students of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, in Wilmington, NC, and Dr. Jennifer Le Zotte, assistant professor of US history and material culture.

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1898 Wilmington: Colt Browning M1895 (The Potato Digger)