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Season 6 Episode 3
Before we can understand what Carolina became, we have to understand the thing the Barbadians carried onto its shore — and it is far older and far st…
5 years ago
The Grand Model - A Colony of a Colony
Season 6 Episode 2
To understand Carolina, you have to leave it — and sail to a single small island in the eastern Caribbean. Carolina was not really founded from Engla…
5 years ago
The Grand Model - Subject to Change
Season 6 Episode 1
After Bacon’s Rebellion, a certain kind of Virginian gave up on the Chesapeake and looked south — to a coast the advertisements called empty, warm, a…
5 years ago
The First Revolution - War on the Water
Season 5 Episode 6
The season ends on the water. Virginia is split in two, and the war turns on a single captured ship; then Jamestown burns, Bacon dies of disease in a…
5 years ago
The First Revolution - The Showdown
Season 5 Episode 5
This is the scene the season has been building toward. Nathaniel Bacon comes down the James River with five hundred armed men; Governor William Berke…
5 years ago
The First Revolution - The Spark
Season 5 Episode 4
It did not begin with a manifesto or a meeting. It began with an unpaid debt and some stolen pigs — and from that squalid little quarrel on the Virgi…
5 years, 3 months ago
The First Revolution - What Was Left
Season 5 Episode 3
In 1492, no one in the Old World had ever tasted a potato, smoked tobacco, or drunk a cup of chocolate — and no one in the Americas had ever seen a h…
5 years, 3 months ago
The First Revolution - Two Men, One Colony
Season 5 Episode 2
Before the rebellion there were two men, and the only way to understand what happened is to understand each of them. William Berkeley had governed Vi…
5 years, 3 months ago
The First Revolution - Six Parts in Seven
Season 5 Episode 1
One hundred years before the Declaration of Independence, a Virginia planter named Nathaniel Bacon led an armed revolt against the colonial governmen…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Catholic Refuge - The Refuge Closed
Season 4 Episode 8
In the summer of 1689, a rumor ran through Maryland that the Catholics had hired the native nations to murder the Protestants in their beds. It was f…
5 years, 3 months ago