Ned Blackhawk
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71 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Ned Blackhawk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because once they start reimagining themselves in these ways, they decide that they're going to drive the English out.
And one ball makes it over the fence.
And so they ask if they could kind of get their ball returned.
And so the fort officials are opening the doors to return the ball that's been taken.
And a flood of warriors come in and destroy the fort.
They signal to the English that peace is going to be more costly than war has been for you.
And they decide, okay, we'll make peace with Pontiac.
Have you ever been to India?
Have you heard of the Caribbean?
Okay, the English crown governs millions of people around the world.
The British colonists in North America are a small percentage of that.
The overwhelming economic priorities that the British Empire has in the Western Hemisphere revolve around places like Jamaica and Barbados, not Virginia or Massachusetts.
Correct.
Because Barbados produces large quantities of slave-produced alcohol and sugar that can be consumed across the British Empire.
The proclamation line of October 1763 draws this perimeter along the crests of the Appalachian Mountains.
So everything east is British North America.
Everything to the west is to be reserved for the Indians.
Land mania, we might say, overwhelms the colonial system.
Gentry leaders, people like George Washington, understood that their lands were becoming increasingly less valuable.
People like Washington, in commanding their enslaved populations to help bring nutrient-rich soils from the bottom of river beds.
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