Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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Washington and his troops were having more luck on the battlefield.
But most people in the colonies still had no real sense of who had signed on to this declaration.
The copies that had been passed around were unsigned.
And in some ways, the anonymity was an obstacle to unity.
Because how could a farmer in South Carolina or a cobbler in Massachusetts know for sure if their colony was a part of this vision of a new nation?
Coming up, Congress decides to let their constituents and the British crown know exactly who is behind those words.
The Commons.
In January 1777, a printer in Baltimore named Mary Catherine Goddard was tasked with printing a new version of the Declaration.
That features individual colonies and the names of the people who signed on.
55 names in total.
Well, 56 if you include Mary's name at the bottom.
The first female postmaster of the United Colonies and the only woman to have her name on the Declaration of Independence, Mary Catherine Goddard.
It's heightened risk for everyone, including her, right?
Anyone whose name is public at that point suddenly has potentially a target on their backs if the war goes wrong.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, if it goes terribly wrong, that's not a name you would want out in the public.
When you're talking about unity as a concept, like if I'm someone sitting in South Carolina or in Virginia and I'm just like a regular person, seeing my representative there is different than a kind of vague, like we're all unified now.
Absolutely.
So that does seem really significant in terms of selling the idea to the people that we are actually one united nation.
country.
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