Before We Were White

By Brian HalpinSociety & Culture Documentary News Politics History

Before We Were White episodes

April 01, 2022 Charleston Reshuffle
Announcing the first of our new "bitesized" episodes, which we hope to release regularly between our "deep dive" episodes.

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On 4 April 2015, an unarmed man was unlawfully shot dead on the streets of Charleston, South Carolina by a police officer.
The local chief of police would be called to testify in the subsequent murder trial, amid national media interest and widespread community unrest.
The public interpretation of events was largely divided along the usual American socio-ethnic and political faultlines.

But Charleston is one of the oldest towns in the American South, with many secrets buried deep underneath the weight of centuries - and nothing is ever quite as it seems.
And the people now living on different sides of the tracks might have a lot more in common than they could possibly imagine...

"Charleston Reshuffle", out now at beforewewerewhite.com and wherever you get your podcasts.
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19 min
February 16, 2022 Strangers for Dinner
November 1620.
Aboard a freezing ship anchored off Cape Cod, Massachusetts...
A mutual cooperation agreement is signed by a group of men representing 101 passengers who had survived a perilous north Atlantic crossing, hoping to found a colony in the "New World".
This agreement would be important, because some of these passengers were members of a religious sect calling themselves "Saints".
The other two-thirds of the Mayflower passengers were not self-declared "Saints".
These "Saints" - later known to history as "The Pilgrims" - called the people who outnumbered them "Strangers".
Take a deep dive into America's forgotten history with this special length post-pandemic episode.
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1 hr 42 min
May 12, 2021 Matrimony and Mayhem
Between the founding of Jamestown in 1607, and the end of the Anglo-Powhatan Wars in 1644, there were a mere eight years of relative peace between the rightful inhabitants of Tsenacomoco and English colonisers.
Those few years of peace were largely the result of one marriage between two people from utterly different worlds.
The descendants of Pocahontas and John Rolfe are still here today, like seeds scattered before a whirlwind.
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1 hr 3 min
October 26, 2020 Black Hair, Gray Eyes
A middle-aged artist named John White climbed out of a rowboat onto a beach near Roanoke in America in 1590, searching for his missing daughter and grandchildren. His paintings from that time and place have survived. But did his family survive as well?
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51 min
October 02, 2020 Off-Course
The sea can be pitiless.
In 1477, a small ocean-going craft was found washed ashore in County Galway, Ireland, with the dead bodies of a man and a woman still lashed to it.
Of the innumerable maritime mishaps in history, none would have a greater lasting impact on the course of world events.
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44 min
October 01, 2020 Before We Were White - main theme
Before We Were White main theme, featuring Dave McLoughlin of County Sligo, Ireland on bouzouki.

Theme based on the old Irish traditional Molly McAlpine, composed by famed Sligo harpist Thomas Connellan (1640 - 1698).
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3 min
September 29, 2020 BWWW Launch Announcement
"Before We Were White" podcast launches Thursday, 1 Oct 2020
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1 min
September 14, 2020 Before We Were White, main theme
Before We Were White main theme, featuring Dave McLoughlin of County Sligo, Ireland on bouzouki. Theme based on the old Irish traditional Molly McAlpine, composed by famed Sligo harpist Thomas Connellan (1640 - 1698).
3 min

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