Randa Abdel-Fattah
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41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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And behind Walcott's house, Walcott's wife, Laura, and his daughter, Marianne, and people they gathered from the community begin melting down King George's statue into bullets.
Wow.
And Oliver Walcott keeps meticulous records of who did what.
And in the end, there were more than 40,000 bullets made from this statue that was toppled in Bowling Green because George Washington said, we need to read this document aloud to the troops and to the people.
A chunk of those bullets ended up being used
And they later referred to those bullets as melted majesty because they had melted down King George.
I mean, talk about heavy-handed symbolism, right?
The Declaration of Independence leads to this statue being melted down into bullets that would return back towards the king's army.
Yeah.
And it's interesting because it gets at something, right?
That the Declaration, even then, even...
you know, within a couple weeks of it being drafted and approved by Congress, begins to take on a life of its own.
And have an impact.
I mean, we were already fighting, right?
We already had a standing army.
There had already been battles.
There had already been death.
We'd already had naval ships from Britain ravaging our seacoast, as they say.
It is something else to put in writing, hey, this is who we are, this is what we stand for, and this is what we're not going to stand for anymore.
By the end of 1776, the tide was slowly beginning to turn.
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