Listen "Lafayette's Return"
Episode Synopsis
Lafayette was just 19 when he sailed to America from France and fought alongside George Washington in the Revolutionary War. David Marsich says 50 years later the Feenchman toured all 24 states and was greeted by adoring hordes wherever he went. Plus: A Creek Indian was falsely blamed for the brutal slaying of a band of Cherokees just outside Charleston. Josh Piker writes about it in The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler.
Later in the show: Haiti’s revolution exposed the lie in the Enlightenment values that celebrated universal rights but excluded black people. Julia Gaffield is the author of I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom.
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Later in the show: Haiti’s revolution exposed the lie in the Enlightenment values that celebrated universal rights but excluded black people. Julia Gaffield is the author of I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom.
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