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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 1m

What can a pair of shoes tell us about slavery in early America?

Historian Seth Rockman traces the journey of ordinary goods—from New England workshops to Southern plantations—and uncovers a hidden economy of exploitation.

🔗 benfranklinsworld.com/422

#History #Slavery #USHistory

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy

Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 6h

Was slavery just a Southern institution?

In our latest episode, Seth Rockman reveals how Northern industry helped supply the everyday goods that kept slavery running.

🎧 Discover the hidden economy: benfranklinsworld.com/422

#History #USHistory #Capitalism #EconomicHistory

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 21h

How do the everyday things we use connect us to unseen systems of labor and inequality?

Seth Rockman helps us explore that question through the material history of slavery.

🎧 Listen now: benfranklinsworld.com/422

#History #MaterialCulture #USHistory #Skystorians

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy

Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 1d

Fake news isn’t new. 📰⚠️

Jordan E. Taylor uncovers how misinformation spread in early America—and how it shaped politics, war, and public opinion.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/375

#FakeNews #VastEarlyAmerica #History #Media #News #Journalism

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 1d

Axes. Shoes. Cloth.

They may seem ordinary — but these items formed the material infrastructure of American slavery.

Historian Seth Rockman explains how.

🎧 Episode 422: benfranklinsworld.com/422

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 1d

“Complicity is the baseline condition of the human experience.” – Seth Rockman

Hear how ordinary goods reveal the national scale of slavery in early America.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/422

Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 1d

🎙️ New episode!

How did Northern manufacturers support Southern slavery?

Seth Rockman joins us to talk about “plantation goods” and slavery’s hidden supply chain.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/422

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 2d

Colonial forts, Native diplomacy, and global ambition—all on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. 🌍⛵

In Ep. 364, take a Ben Franklin’s World road trip to explore its rich early history.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/364

#GulfCoastHistory #VastEarlyAmerica #History #Mississippi #USHistory

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 2d

What can a pair of shoes tell us about slavery in early America?

Historian Seth Rockman traces the journey of ordinary goods—from New England workshops to Southern plantations—and uncovers a hidden economy of exploitation.

🔗 benfranklinsworld.com/422

#History #Slavery #USHistory

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy

Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 3d

Robert Newburgh didn’t leave behind sermons.

He left behind court records, rumors, and silence.

In our latest episode, we ask: What can one man’s reputation reveal about queerness and justice in early America?

🎧 Listen here: www.benfranklinsworld.com/414

#History #LGBTQHistory #PrideMonth

Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 4d

They say Revere rode, Franklin wrote, and Washington won.

But before any of that, Joseph Warren led.

Our new episode reveals how this "lost hero" became the face of Boston’s Revolution—until Bunker Hill.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/413

#HistoryMatters #Boston #EarlyAmerica #Revolution250

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 4d

Was slavery just a Southern institution?

In our latest episode, Seth Rockman reveals how Northern industry helped supply the everyday goods that kept slavery running.

🎧 Discover the hidden economy: benfranklinsworld.com/422

#History #USHistory #Capitalism #EconomicHistory

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 4d

How do the everyday things we use connect us to unseen systems of labor and inequality?

Seth Rockman helps us explore that question through the material history of slavery.

🎧 Listen now: benfranklinsworld.com/422

#History #MaterialCulture #USHistory #Skystorians

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy

Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 4d

George Washington drew a family tree—with a list of enslaved people on the same page.

What does that tell us about power and inheritance?

🎧 Karin Wulf joins us: benfranklinsworld.com/416

#Genealogy #Podcasts #History #USHistory #America250 #Revolution250

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 6d

How much firewood did a colonial household use each year?

🌲 20–40 cords = more than an acre of woodland per family.

Ben Franklin’s stove was an attempt to save trees & cool the climate crisis of his day.

🎧 Full episode: benfranklinsworld.com/412

#HistoryPodcast #ClimateChange #USHistory

412 Joyce Chaplin, The Franklin Stove

How did Benjamin Franklin’s stove save energy? What does it reveal about wood, trees, and attempts to control the climate?

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 6d

In 1776, just days after the British took NYC, fire tore through the city.

Who started it? Rebels? Redcoats?

In Ep. 395, Benjamin Carp digs into the mystery and consequences of the Great Fire.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/395

#VastEarlyAmerica #History #NYC #USHistory #AmericanRevolution

395 Benjamin Carp, The Great New York Fire of 1776

When we think about the American Revolution, textbooks, documentaries, and historic sites have trained most of us to think about American triumphs in battles or events when American revolutionaries overcame moments of despair, when all seemed lost, t

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 6d

“Complicity is the baseline condition of the human experience.” – Seth Rockman

Hear how ordinary goods reveal the national scale of slavery in early America.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/422

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 6d

Historian Greg Brooking joins us to talk about:

• Georgia’s founding as a buffer colony
• Sir James Wright’s rise, rule, and resistance
• What loyalism really meant in revolutionary America

This is a fresh look at a forgotten side of the American Revolution.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/421

Episode 421: Greg Brooking, Loyalism and Revolution in Georgia

Georgia’s experience offers rich insight into Loyalism, imperial politics, and how personal conviction shaped the course of the American Revolution.

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 7d

🎙️ New episode!

How did Northern manufacturers support Southern slavery?

Seth Rockman joins us to talk about “plantation goods” and slavery’s hidden supply chain.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/422

Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 7d

What can a pair of shoes tell us about slavery in early America?

Historian Seth Rockman traces the journey of ordinary goods—from New England workshops to Southern plantations—and uncovers a hidden economy of exploitation.

🔗 benfranklinsworld.com/422

#History #Slavery #USHistory

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy

Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.

benfranklinsworld.com

1

Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 7d

Was slavery just a Southern institution?

In our latest episode, Seth Rockman reveals how Northern industry helped supply the everyday goods that kept slavery running.

🎧 Discover the hidden economy: benfranklinsworld.com/422

#History #USHistory #Capitalism #EconomicHistory

Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 8d

Would you stay loyal to your government if your neighbors—and maybe your own children—joined a revolution?

Explore the impossible choices Georgians faced during the American Revolution in our latest episode.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/421

#AmericanRevolution #GeorgiaHistory

Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 8d

How do the everyday things we use connect us to unseen systems of labor and inequality?

Seth Rockman helps us explore that question through the material history of slavery.

🎧 Listen now: benfranklinsworld.com/422

#History #MaterialCulture #USHistory #Skystorians

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy

Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.

benfranklinsworld.com

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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 8d

Axes. Shoes. Cloth.

They may seem ordinary — but these items formed the material infrastructure of American slavery.

Historian Seth Rockman explains how.

🎧 Episode 422: benfranklinsworld.com/422

Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 8d

Georgia didn’t send delegates to the First Continental Congress.

Its last royal governor stayed in power longer than any other.

It was loyal—until it wasn’t.

Episode 421 dives into why Georgia’s revolution looked so different.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/421

#USHistory #PodcastRecommendation

Episode 421: Greg Brooking, Loyalism and Revolution in Georgia

Georgia’s experience offers rich insight into Loyalism, imperial politics, and how personal conviction shaped the course of the American Revolution.

benfranklinsworld.com