The Outrage of the Founding Fathers

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The Ethiopian regiment was decimated by a smallpox outbreak in less than a year. Titus died from a gangrene infection from a musket wound. When the war ended, the British evacuated almost 300 former slaves to Nova Scotia. Some plantation owners even journeyed to the North, seizing blacks off the streets of New York and Boston.

One of our heroes Barbara Ehrenreich passed away earlier this year. She was one of America’s best undercover journalists. We once spoke with her about her book Bright Sided, her journey into the heart of American darkness: the positive thinking industry. Also we hear from an ex clan member who reveals the secret of the twinkling cross. Plus your host wonders “what would the founders do”

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