Rejects & Revolutionaries (American History Podcast)

Rejects & Revolutionaries (American History Podcast) episodes:

• 12.12.2022

  Intelligent Speech 2022

  An audio-only version of my presentation at the 2022 Intelligent Speech Conference.  For video, click here!   In this presentation, I took a step back to explore the process of settling a new colony, a big-picture discussion of the colonies we've...

  
• 11.19.2022

  Carolina 2: A rude rabble

  The story of Carolina's second settlement attempt was the type of failure we've frequently discussed, but it was also a failure for a new era.  English proprietors got distracted, severe supply shortages emerged, and conflict with indigenous tribes ultimately caused...

  
• 10.29.2022

  Carolina 1: Cape Fear

  Carolina was a colony for a new era.  The Jacobean settlements of Virginia, Bermuda and Plymouth had been tiny, struggling outposts in a very New World.  The colonies formed under Charles I (the rest of New England, Barbados, Maryland and...

  
• 09.28.2022

  Restoration 12: The fall of Panama and rise of Jamaica

  Henry Morgan's privateering exploits had turned to full on piracy by the time he attacked Maracaibo and, especially, Panama City.  Still, he enjoyed the support of the island's population and leadership, and the money he brought to the colony facilitated...

  
• 07.16.2022

  Restoration 11: Rumors of colonial independence

  After the Willoughby brothers, the king imposed governors in Barbados who he expected to be loyal to him instead of the colony.  The first two backfired in dramatically different ways, one siding with the colonists, and the other descending into...

  
• 06.07.2022

  Restoration 10: Boys, you gotta learn not to talk to kings that way

  Neither the king nor Barbados was willing to budge over the financial issues surrounding the Second Anglo-Dutch War, and what ensued was the biggest showdown between king and colony in American history.   Website (transcripts, sources, etc)   Patreon or BMAC   Intelligent...

  
• 05.26.2022

  Restoration 9: War and pieces of eight

  Henry Morgan's piratical exploits during the Second Anglo-Dutch War took him into combat not with England's allies, but rather against the Spanish of Cuba and Panama.   Website (transcripts)   Intelligent Speech Conference information!  

  
• 05.21.2022

  Restoration 8: Barbados, betrayed

  Barbados would never really recover from the Second Anglo-Dutch War.  Compared to islands like St. Kitts, it had gotten through the conflict without too much damage, but it had still funded and fought a full theater of war almost alone,...

  
• 05.07.2022

  Intelligent Speech 2022 - June 25

  Information about this year's Intelligent Speech Conference!  35 presentations in four virtual rooms bringing together the independent educational podcast community.  This year's theme:  Crossings   Date:  June 25, 2022   Place:  Your home, via Zoom   Tickets:  $20 before June 1.  10% off...

  
• 05.07.2022

  Restoration 7: Barbados, alone

  The First Anglo-Dutch War hit Barbados hard.  After a 10 hour battle expended all their ammunition, colonists and king bickered over who should be responsible for buying more.  Ultimately, the compromise was to put off the issue by loaning the...

  
• 04.20.2022

  Restoration 6: No peace beyond the line

  If you enjoy this show, would you please rate/review on whatever podcast app you use?  Thank you!   As Jamaica limped along after the Western Design, escaped slaves maintained their own colony in the island's central mountains, and pirates controlled Port...

  
• 04.08.2022

  Barbados in the Restoration

  When the Restoration happened, Barbados requested to be made a crown colony, thinking its rights would be better protected.  In return for giving up his proprietary rights, Willoughby was made Barbados's first royal governor.  Suddenly, Barbadians were faced with the...

  
• 03.22.2022

  Restoration 4: Meet the new boss

  Charles II kept a stronger Parliament within England than his father could have imagined, and he expanded the Navigation Acts, kept the policy of transportation, and pushed the slave trade.  When news of the new king's planned policies reached Virginia,...

  
• 03.03.2022

  Restoration 3: Fendall's Rebellion

  A political fight in Maryland highlights the colony's new state of affairs - Lord Baltimore may own the colony, but he has virtually no power there.   Find transcripts and more on the website     Support this podcast on Patreon   Buy...

  
• 02.17.2022

  Restoration 2: Hopes of paradise lost

  After the Restoration prompted a bloody revolt by Thomas Venner's Fifth Monarchist group in London, Charles II cast a wary eye on New England.  Meanwhile, regicides Whalley and Goffe had escaped punishment in England to make their home in Massachusetts. ...

  
• 01.28.2022

  Restoration 1: America in 1660

  A quick recap of everything that's changed in America during the period of the English Civil Wars and Interregnum/Commonwealth, as well as problems colonists are facing going into the reign of King Charles II.   By the way, I've got a...

  
• 01.13.2022

  ECW 32: The Restoration

  In the final episode of our English Civil War series, we discuss the Restoration.  After Cromwell died, there was chaos that could have erupted in yet another round of war.  Instead, though, the return of Charles II to the throne...

  
• 12.31.2021

  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...

  
• 12.09.2021

  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.  

  
• 11.25.2021

  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...

  
• 11.10.2021

  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...

  
• 10.27.2021

  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...

  
• 10.14.2021

  ECW 26: Maine

  A brief history of the Province of Maine, culminating in its takeover by Massachusetts Bay in 1652/3.  

  
• 09.30.2021

  ECW 25: The Guinea Company

  England's participation in the Western African trade started very slowly, and the slave trade was explicitly rejected by early English traders to Africa.  Still, within 40 years, English participation in the slave trade became common, and England's most valuable colony...

  
• 09.15.2021

  ECW 24: The Battle of the Severn

  Bennett and Claiborne had control of Virginia, and two weeks later they went to Maryland to demand it renounce its loyalty to Lord Baltimore.  When Marylanders refused, they took over the colony's government.  Baltimore ordered his governor to fight to...

  
• 09.02.2021

  ECW 23: Empire

  England moves to suppress the colonies which declared allegiance to King Charles II over the Commonwealth.  The battle reaches its climax in Barbados, with a three month siege and potential battle between armies of thousands.   After suppression, though, it passes...

  
• 08.19.2021

  ECW 22: The English Invasion of Scotland

  The execution of Charles I led to one last wave of war in England and Scotland, dubbed the Third English Civil War, and the English Invasion of Scotland.  England's victory left them in control of Scotland, with a military government...

  
• 08.19.2021

  ECW 21: The Scottish Civil War pt. 1

  In part one of a two part episode on the British Civil Wars in Scotland, we discuss the early events of the war.  The unlikely Royalist conquest of Scotland under James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, and Alasdair MacColla has made...

  
• 08.04.2021

  ECW 20: Scotland's Civil War

  An overview of the situation in Scotland leading into 1643, with a brief history of the origins of the Ulster Plantation and Scots Irish.  

  
• 07.21.2021

  ECW 19: The challenges and rewards of victory

  The United Colonies of New England enjoy unprecedented peace and prosperity in the years following Cromwell's rise to power, and Cotton encourages ordinary people that the regicide was part of God's plan to bring about the millennium.   Pardon the roughness...

  
• 07.30.2020

  ECW 18: Declarations of Independence

  In response to the execution of King Charles I, the colonies of Bermuda, Virginia, Maryland, Newfoundland, Antigua and Barbados declared their allegiance to his uncrowned and exiled heir.  In doing so, they declared their separation from the English government.  Some...

  
• 07.15.2020

  ECW 17: The Second English Civil War

  Back in England, the King had surrendered to the Scots at Newcastle, but the victorious Parliamentarians were divided.  Presbyterians versus Independents, Parliament versus the Army.  Discontent in the countryside turned into unrest, and the failure of either side to successfully...

  
• 07.01.2020

  ECW 16: The Cambridge Platform

  In the aftermath of the Remonstrance of 1646, two things happen.  One, Massachusetts deputies and magistrates stay united long enough to implement watered down versions of some of the reforms the deputies had been pushing for all along.   Second,...

  
• 06.24.2020

  ECW 15: The Toleration Act

  Following the Plundering Time, Maryland needed to re-evaluate its trajectory and the extent to which maintaining its original vision was feasible in the aftermath of the First English Civil War.  While the colony worked to stabilize itself internally, Baltimore prepared...

  
• 06.17.2020

  ECW 14: Common Prayer

  In 1645, Parliament abolished the English Book of Common Prayer, and in response, Virginia strengthened its laws requiring ministers to use it.  By 1648, tension surrounding the Prayer Book caused two more puritan leaders to be kicked out of Virginia,...

  
• 06.10.2020

  ECW 13: A new colony, and an end to neutrality

  In this episode, we look at what happens at the end of the First English War in Bermuda and Barbados.  A new colony emerges, and Barbados's neutral days are numbered as the end of war brings threats to the status...

  
• 08.07.2019

  ECW 12: The experience of war in England

  A quick episode back in England, discussing the polarizing experience of war, which drove thousands of new immigrants to the colonies, and also created a seriously different mindset between new colonists and old ones.  

  
• 07.24.2019

  ECW 11: The Remonstrance of 1646, pt. 2

  The biggest threat yet to Massachusetts Bay autonomy also provoked some of its most ruthless political suppression.  But, the colony wins, the deputies and magistrates unite, a new synod of New England Churches is planned, and if anything, the region's...

  
• 07.17.2019

  ECW 10: Reform, autonomy and the Remonstrance of 1646

  When Parliament allows Samuel Gorton to appeal decisions made by the Massachusetts General Court, a small group of disgruntled New Englanders gets together to push for reform in Massachusetts, in a way which threatens the autonomy the colony has always...

  
• 06.19.2019

  ECW 9: Polarization, moderation and the end of the first Civil War

  Bermuda Presbyterians beg for an anti-Congregationalist governor, and when they get him, retaliation pushes Congregationalists to England, where they become a focal point of the debate between Presbyterians and Independents.   Barbados maintains its neutrality, despite repeated attempts by Parliament...

  
• 06.07.2019

  English Civil War 8: Long awaited return

  Berkeley returns from England to find the Powhatan War mismanaged.  Calvert returns from Virginia to reinstate Maryland's Proprietary government.  But ... the last remaining Royalist port, Bristol, falls, an event which spells trouble for all American colonies, not just Royalist...

  
• 04.17.2019

  English Civil War 7: The Plundering Time

  Richard Ingle returns to Maryland to lead a revolt which topples Maryland's Catholic leadership, and steals everything they own.  Fathers White and Copley return to England as prisoners, and Calvert escapes to Virginia.  

  
• 04.10.2019

  English Civil War 6: War comes to America

  Congregationalists seize control of Bermuda's government and Church, imposing an era of oppression of the colony's Royalists/Anglicans and Presbyterians.  The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins, and William Claiborne and Richard Ingle join forces for an attack on Maryland.  Plus, we briefly...

  
• 04.04.2019

  English Civil War 5: the Hingham Militia Case

  Deputies clash with magistrates and Presbyterians with Congregationalists, resulting in Massachusetts's most heated political battle since 1636, and leading John Winthrop to give his famous "Little Speech on Liberty."  

  
• 03.27.2019

  ECW 4: The worst and most dangerous times (and sugar!)

  ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm planning to change the name of this podcast, either to "American Origins" or "Rejects & Revolutionaries."   Richard Ingle is arrested for treason in Maryland, Virginia starts kicking out Puritans, Barbados takes a unique approach to avoiding factional...

  
• 03.20.2019

  English Civil War 3: Aristocracy vs. Democracy

  In 1643, the debate between the deputies and the magistrates intensified in Massachusetts, and puritans in both old and New England debated the merits of Presbyterianism and Congregationalism.  The fundamental issue underlying both controversies was how far the revolution should...

  
• 03.13.2019

  English Civil War 2: An overview of the war

  A brief overview of the events leading to civil war in England, plus Americans' initial responses to developments in their home country.  

  
• 03.08.2019

  English Civil War 1 REUPLOAD

  This episode is identical to the last episode, but because I'd uploaded a truncated file the last time, and the file change itself can cause some technical glitches, I'm just re-uploading this as a whole new episode.  This one will...

  
• 03.06.2019

  English Civil War 1: Profile of 1642 America

  An overview of what English America looked like before war started in 1642, including a brief introduction to the foundation of the earliest successful Caribbean colonies.  

  
• 02.06.2019

  Providence Island 9: End of an era

  The final collapse of the Providence Island project, plus reflections on the end of this era of American history, and how Providence Island contributed to the outbreak of the English Civil War.