44: Robert Smalls Fights For Equality (Part 3)

An Old Timey Podcast

True Crime, History, Comedy

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

After the American Civil War, Robert Smalls navigated the complicated waters of Reconstruction. Black people struggled for basic rights against the White planter class, who refused to accept the end of slavery.

In this difficult time, Robert Smalls rose to the occasion and became a leader in his community. He fought for public education, equality, suffrage, and protection against violent terrorist groups. But accusations of corruption and bribery threatened to dismantle progress.

Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from:
Lineberry, Cate. Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls’ Escape from Slavery to Union Hero. St. Martin’s Press, 2017.
Miller Jr., Edward. Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839-1915. University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

Are you enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Then please leave us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts!

Are you *really* enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Well, calm down, history ho! You can get more of us on Patreon at patreon.com/oldtimeypodcast. At the $5 level, you’ll get a monthly bonus episode (with video!), access to our 90’s style chat room, plus the entire back catalog of bonus episodes from Kristin’s previous podcast, Let’s Go To Court.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hear ye, hear ye. You are listening to an old-timey podcast. I'm Norman Caruso.
0:06.8	And I think I am ready to rumble. It's Kristen Caruso.
0:11.1	Let's get ready to rumble!
0:14.0	Because it's part three of my series on Robert Smalls.
0:17.9	Woo! I am excited. I had a piece of beef jerky just to prepare myself.
0:24.9	Yeah, it was very pungent.
0:27.2	I could smell it when you walked in.
0:29.1	Well, I needed the protein.
0:30.6	I'll tell you something about eating beef jerky.
0:33.3	The other day I went to the gym,
0:35.2	and it was kind of crowded because I went at like 515, like a chump.
0:38.8	Yeah.
0:39.3	You know, one of those, like, you can't necessarily get too far away from anybody on a treadmill.
0:45.2	And on my run, I burped twice.
0:50.0	Oh, beef jerky burps are pungent.
0:53.2	I should have been locked up.
0:55.3	The spices that were wafted in through that gym that day.
0:59.4	The organic black pepper.
1:01.0	The organic salt.
1:02.3	The garlic powder.
1:03.9	All the natural flavors.
1:06.2	Plus, everyone's booty juices.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from An Old Timey Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of An Old Timey Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.