Behind the Scenes Minis: Deborah and Bibb
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 24.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Tracy and Holly discuss Deborah Sampson’s disguise as Robert Shurtlliff and women who were camp followers in the Revolutionary War. They also discuss Major Richard Bibb waiting until his death to emancipate his enslaved workforce.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future. |
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| 0:58.4 | I'm Barry Edelstein, artistic director of the Old Globe in San Diego, one of the country's leading Shakespeare theaters. |
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| 1:40.4 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 1:46.4 | Happy Friday, I'm Tracy V. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry. |
| 1:56.4 | We talked about Deborah Samson-Gunette this week, who we've gotten various listener requests to talk about on the show. |
| 2:03.4 | I meant to say in the actual episode and forgot that I followed, even though I did not finish reading the novel revolutionary, |
| 2:13.4 | I did actually follow Alex Meyers direction on like being open to talking about Robert Shirtliff by that name during the time that Deborah Samson was disguised as Robert Shirtliff. |
| 2:27.4 | Most people like historians and otherwise who have looked at this story have pretty much concluded that this was a disguise and that more than likely she would not identify as transgender today, especially because she went. |
| 2:42.4 | She sort of returned to life as a woman after her time in the military was over, but I also thought it would be interesting just kind of. |
| 2:50.4 | Let her experience be more fluid, which it also seems to have been and having been undiscovered for a full. |
| 2:57.4 | 18 months, because that would have taken a lot of work. |
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