Randa Abdel-Fattah
speaker
3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So you got to unify the country.
You got to get Europe on our side.
And maybe you have to explain to yourselves, this isn't just about taxes on tea or a Boston Tea Party or a problem we're having with parliament over stamp acts or something.
We now are on a larger mission.
We're creating a new type of nation.
And this document is telling the troops and the world what that new nation is going to be.
Everybody has to show up.
As Washington's colonels begin reading the declaration out loud, the soldiers are taking it in calmly.
And then it starts getting into, hey, we're really mad about X, Y, and Z. Which really riles them up.
a massive riot erupts in lower Manhattan, what is now lower Manhattan.
That becomes very focused on this huge statue of King George III in Bowling Green, this little tiny park in lower Manhattan.
They've got ropes.
People manage to topple it and tear it down.
It was gilt over lead, so it wasn't solid gold.
And in those days, people weren't interested in the lead because that was used to make ammunition.
One of the eventual signers of the Declaration of Independence, Oliver Walcott of Connecticut, who was also serving in the military as an officer, he's like, we need to get this to Connecticut.
So they get as many chunks of the statue as they can.
They get it out of Manhattan.
They get it across the Sound.
They get it overland in Connecticut to his backyard in Litchfield.
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