Rejects & Revolutionaries (American History Podcast)

Rejects & Revolutionaries (American History Podcast)

By Sarah Tanksalvala

A history of the people who became Americans. Formerly The American History Podcast.... more
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  1. Number 1: ECW 31: Frustrations in Rhode Island

    While New England's comfort generally increased in the Cromwell years, Rhode Island suffered from a lagging economy, political divisions and even issues with religious dissidents who worked to destabilize the already unstable colony. Plymouth's prosperity also waned as trade came to dominate the New England economy. And in the United Colonies, the issue of infant baptism continued to create problems. In response to the limits of Church-membership exclusivity (including but not limited to infant baptism), younger people were either losing interest in religion or turning to more radical Puritan sects, like the Baptists. Baptists, who advocated for no infant baptism at all, rather than simply limited infant baptism, grew more numerous and popular throughout New England. Their ideology evened the social/political playing field as well as providing a simple solution to religious questions. In response to these trends in New England religious life, United Colony Churches (with some exceptions) adopted the Half-Way Covenant.

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  2. Number 2: ECW 30: How long is this Cromwell thing going to last, anyway?

    Cromwell decides in favor of Baltimore's proprietorship in Maryland, Virginia works to subvert English puritan leadership and reinstall a royalist government, Bermuda has its first slave revolt, and Barbados foreshadows Revolutionary War sentiments by opposing taxation without representation.

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  3. Number 3: ECW 29: The Western Design

    The Western Design was supposed to be England's plan to conquer Spanish America, starting with Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Cartagena (Colombia). Instead, after a disastrous expedition, England had ended up with Jamaica. For a while, owning Jamaica was disastrous in and of itself. Tens of thousands of people died, a huge percent of them Irish victims of transportation.

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  4. Number 4: ECW 28: Mary Dyer & the early Quakers

    Former Anne Hutchinson disciple Mary Dyer was the third of four Quakers to be executed in New England. Persecution of Quakers was rampant across the English speaking world, ranging from imprisonment in Suriname to whipping in the Chesapeake to executions in New England. In England, itself, by 1655, they were dubbed the greatest threat left to England's future. But why? (This episode is a little bit more inappropriate than most. I wouldn't say it's explicit, exactly, but various instances of public nudity are discussed).

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  5. Number 5: ECW 27: Witch trials in the Devils Isles

    America's history of witch executions started 40 years before the Salem Witch Trials. Its first victim was Connecticut's Alse Young in 1647. Soon, Massachusetts had joined in the practice, as had Bermuda. Devastated Bermuda and legally-dubious Connecticut saw the largest numbers of witch trials in these years, and we examine how that came to be. Featuring a random elk that bugled outside my window as I was recording.

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