Trevor Hughes
speaker
512 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 14 Aug
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It creates massive opportunities for farming and for wildlife.
It really is such an iconic part of America.
And the journeys that people have taken on the Mississippi River since time immemorial, frankly, is really astounding.
One of the things I thought was the most interesting as part of my Mississippi River reporting
was that there used to be a settlement, a Native American settlement on the banks of the Mississippi River in the year 1000 was bigger than London.
I think that's just outstandingly interesting.
We have this idea in some ways that the United States was not totally empty, but there weren't that many people here.
And that's actually not true.
It was very well populated when Europeans arrived.
Yeah.
I mean, one of the things that you remember Mark Twain's book, you know, Huckleberry Finn, you know, Huck Finn and Jim are escaping.
And Jim is an enslaved young man.
He is escaping to freedom.
And there's a saying in America, right?
If someone betrays you, you've been sold down the river.
That actually traces itself
to the Mississippi River, that if you were deemed, as an enslaved person, if you were deemed troublesome or in some way unwanted, you would literally be sold down the river from the more northern states to the deeper south, where you would potentially be treated even worse.
We're talking about places like Louisiana.
And so the Mississippi River has been this this flow of commerce both up and down the river for a long time.
But I was really sort of saddened to hear how much of that commerce was people.
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