Flames of Freedom

Flames of Freedom

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Flames of Freedom episodes

  • The New Zion
    In 2024 Season One of Flames of Freedom was nominated for a Webby award for best historical podcast. In Season Two, we continue the saga of the Nunes family when they arrive on the shores of what is now Savannah, and James Oglethorpe is faced with a dilemma. The Colony was suffering from an epidemic that had killed their doctor and twenty other settlers, and half the Colony was deathly ill. And here he was confronted with a Jewish doctor who could save the Colony, but the Georgia Trustees had emphatically delcared they didn't want Jews in Georgia, Oglethorpe's decision would profoundly impact the future of the Colony and the role Jews would play there and in the fledgling new country that rebelled against their British overlords some forty years later.

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    1 hr 7 min
  • REVEALED: The Team Behind the Scenes

    Season 1 wrap-up. A look behind the scenes with interviews of the series creators: Executive Producer, Lance Tōland / Writer, Rick Stone / Producer-Director, Mark Simon / Audio Editor, Composer & Sound Designer, Dave Wilson / and a few of the Cast Members: Ian Russell (James Oglethorpe & multiple character voices) / Juan-Pablo Gamboa, (Dr. Diogo Nunes) / Jamie Treselyan (young-Benjamin Philips & multiple character voices) / Angelines Santaňa (Zipporah Nunez Mechado Jacobs) / Francois Clemenceau, The Grand Inquisitor, Daniel & multiple character voices.



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    49 min
  • Flames of Freedom: Journey's End

    While they await the repairs on their ship, the Jews disembark and learn invaluable lessons about surviving in the American wilderness. While they labor away, Oglethorpe is faced with growing dissension among his settlers around issues of slavery and drinking rum and then faces an even bigger challenge as an epidemic threatens to wipe out the entire colony. When Samuel Nunes and the Jews finally arrive, Oglethorpe is faced with a major dilemma: accede to the verbal wishes of the Trustees to exclude Jews from the Colony or enlist the assistance of Dr. Nunes to fight the raging epidemic. His decision will have repercussions for decades to come. 



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    33 min
  • Episode Eleven: Precarious Times

    Divisions begin to appear among the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews on their journey to America, while James Oglethorpe, with the help of Colonel Bull, selects Yamacraw Bluff for the new settlement. Oglethorpe also meets Mary Musgrove, a woman of English and Indian descent who is an invaluable partner in the years ahead as Oglethorpe navigates relations with the neighboring Creek Indians. The ship carrying the Jews faces its most trying challenge yet as severe storms threaten to crash it on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. 



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    29 min
  • REVEALED: Michael Thurmond Part I

    Michael Thurmond, the chief executive officer of DeKalb County, Georgia, is the author of James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia, Freedom: Georgia’s Antislavery Heritage, 1733–1865, and A Story Untold: Black Men and Women in Athens History. Thurmond explores the foundation of the Georgia Colony and Oglethorpe’s increasing resistance to the institution of slavery.



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    29 min
  • Episode Ten: Dark Night of the Soul
    Samuel Nunes agrees to lead the Jewish settlers to the Georgia Colony, and they depart some weeks after Oglethorpe on a ship requisitioned and paid for by London’s wealthiest Jews. But the ship encounters turbulent weather, an omen for what will be a nearly disastrous journey across the Atlantic Ocean, foreshadowing the loss of life. While they faced horrendous trials at sea, Oglethorpe and his settlers arrived safely at Charles Town, South Carolina, in January 1733.

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    34 min
  • REVEALED: Dr. Diego Lucci Part II
    Dr. Lucci explores the roots of antisemitism in early Christian thought and looks at how John Toland's writings completely changed the conversation around the equality of Jews in English and European culture.

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    29 min
  • Episode Nine: Promise of a New Beginning

    Daniel and Moses become enamored with the idea of a clean start in America, an idea that their father, Samuel, rejects out of hand. When King George approves the new colony, the Trustees are faced with a thorny dilemma—what to do with the efforts of the richest Jews of England to send their fellow Jews to Georgia? Their debate and subsequent decision have unexpected consequences that will echo throughout the history of the fledgling colony even after Oglethorpe departs for America in November 1732 with 120 adventurous souls.

     

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    42 min
  • REVEALED: Dr. Diego Lucci, Part I
    Dr. Diego Lucci is a professor at the American University in Bulgaria and has previously been a research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and the Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Hamburg. His book on the Enlightenment debate on Jewish emancipation is essential to studying Jewish-Gentile relations in 18th-century Europe.

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    31 min

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Flames of Freedom is a docudrama chronicling how forty-two courageous Jews risked their lives in 1733 to cross the Atlantic Ocean, hoping to settle in the American colony of…