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Escaped Smallpox Patient Walks New York City Like The Kid From The Family Circus, Racist Jury But Not Judge, What Is Jute?

Exploding Brooklyn

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Episode  ·  3 Plays  ·  35:55  ·  Oct 26, 2023

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Michael Burns, Escaped Smallpox PatientA Jury of Black People Is Called By The Court But Rejected By The DefendantThe Jute Mill: What Is Jute?Child Labor in Greenpoint, 1904The American Manufacturing CompanyThe Tugboat John Ansonfeaturing: burlap; Labor Strike; Child Labor; Call the Darkness Light by Nancy Zaroulis; The American Manufacturing Company; tugboat John Anson; the health wagon; The Wilson Bill; Flood's Lot.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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory

35m 55s  ·  Oct 26, 2023

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