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Gaslight flickers over polished wood, a packed hall hums with dread and ambition, and a single voice promises safety through rupture. We take you inside Charleston’s Hibernian Hall in 1859, where Robert Barnwell Rhett—“the father of secession”—braids grievance, fear, and political theater into a call that helps set the country on a path to civil war. Guided by newspaper power, party fractures, and the myth of Southern chivalry, Rhett and his band,  the fire eaters,  turn a militant minority into a force that reshapes the map.

This is the story of the rise and fall of the fire-eaters!