Malcolm Gladwell
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3,035 appearances
50 recordings
16 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 17 Sep
Malcolm Gladwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When they saw the houses of slave owners, they made a decision.
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Is this someone who treats us with even a modicum of kindness?
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If so, they skipped the house.
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If not, they burned the house down and killed everyone inside.
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One contemporary account reads
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They marched on with colours displayed and two drums beating, pursuing all the white people they met with and killing man, woman, and child when they could come up to them.
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End of quote.
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By morning they were more than a hundred strong and miles from the Stono River.
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Since it was Sunday, most of the white population of the low country was in church, so Jemmy's band marched on without incident.
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Finally, they were spotted by South Carolina's Lieutenant Governor William Bull.
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Bull had been sounding the alarm for some time that South Carolina's slaves, quote, which were the state's chief support, may in little time become their enemies, if not their masters, and that this government is unable to withstand or prevent it, end of quote.
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One of his companions raced to a nearby church, Wiltown Presbyterian.
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He rounded up as many men as he could.
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News spread.
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Other men grabbed their guns and joined.
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The rebels were resting on Pons Ponds Road near Jacksonboro.
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The two sides clashed, and in a fierce and bloody encounter, the rebels were defeated.
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Malcolm Gladwell here.
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My new book, The American Way of Killing, investigates America's gun violence crisis.
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Why is the richest country in the world plagued by such lethal violence?
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