Malcolm Gladwell
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16 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard today
Malcolm Gladwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Through a series of stories, interviews, and archival tape, I confront one of today's most urgent moral dilemmas and examine why the U.S.
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has never quite understood its own problem and why you can't fix what you refuse to.
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See clearly.
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Pre order the American Way of Killing at pushkin dot fm slash audiobooks or wherever audiobooks are sold.
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If you were a slave owner in the South, you knew about the Stono Rebellion, especially if you lived in South Carolina or Virginia.
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You read about it in the newspaper.
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Or someone who was there wrote you about it or told you about it at church.
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Every white planter knew that a day of reckoning was coming.
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In Barbados, where many of the founding fathers of the South Carolina colony came from, the British could barely keep their slaves under control.
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Uprisings were a constant worry on the slave ships coming from Africa.
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Slaves ran away, they fought back, they engaged in frequent acts of disobedience and resistance.
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You could whip your slaves into submission, starve them, punish them, or
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or simply sell the troublemakers to someone else.
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But at the end of the day, you had to live with the reality that it was only a matter of time before the cauldron bubbled over.
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At the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, where Thomas Jefferson lived with his immediate family, there were as many as a hundred and forty slaves at any given moment, and only a few white overseers.
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In South Carolina, slaves composed over seventy percent of the total population of the colony.
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And if you ventured out as far as the Stono River, the ratio of black to white on plantations reached ten to one.
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Or even fifteen to one.
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If you had to ride to town on business or go to the state capital for a few days, leaving your wife and children at home, could you feel safe?
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Thomas Jefferson would famously describe the practice of slavery as grabbing a wolf by the ears.
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