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Episode 182: The Surfmen

the memory palace

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Richard Etheridge's Story

The lives of slaves were different on the outer banks than they were on the mainland. Out there, there wasn't much to plant or to pick or to sell. But richard etheridge's life was different than that of the other slaves. When the civil war broke out and the union seized the outer banks, richard was there. And when other slaves escaped from the mainland to freedom by boats they had stolen, by rafts they lashed together by their own breath and muscle swimming in the cold and the dark across the wide sound. Richard etheridge enlisted. He guarded confederate prisoners. He made raids into virginia and the carolina coast. There is no record of what his

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