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July 20, 2023 83 mins
Greenpoint and Slavery
Slavery Abolition in New York State, Kind Of
New York City and Slavery
Thomas Alsop: Enslaver and His Runaway Notices
Alsop Farm at Penny Bridge, Sold
The Alsops and the Yellow Fever of 1847/8
Frederick Douglas and The Power of Public Opinion
Public Transportation in the North and South: The Jim Crow Car
Staten Island Quarantine Ground, and Suppressing Pandemic Numbers
The Alsops, Colonial New York to 1776 and Onwards: The American Revolution On Newtown Creek

featuring: Slavery and Escape In New York: Blissville, Sojourner Truth, Rutgers University, Harriet Powell, Colonial New York, Illinois Bounty Lands, Staten Island Quarantine Grounds, Pandemic, Frederick Douglas, Public Transportation, Colonial Medicine and Physicians, Lord Cornbury, Lord Cornwallis, The Capture of New York, Revolutionary War, Tories, Sir Henry Clinton, Quakers, Iconography of Manhattan Island; Yellow Fever Pandemic of 1848.

Exploding Brooklyn focuses on North Brooklyn's industrial history in Greenpoint and Williamsburg on Newtown Creek; and the people who lived and died amidst industrial mayhem as this backwoods of New York City became an epicenter of shipping and commerce.

Exploding Brooklyn is the first podcast from Tripping Balls Through History - podcasts using newspapers and media to bring old true stories to light.

Official: trippingballsthroughhistory.com
Ig: @trippingballsthroughhistory
bonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
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