Ep. 2189 Did the Declaration of Independence Apply to Slaves?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
A revival of the Broadway musical 1776, featuring female, trans, and nonbinary cast members portraying the Founding Fathers, has reignited the usual attacks on the Founders, so I look at the matter more closely.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Wood Show Episode 2189. |
| 0:03.2 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.8 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here. |
| 0:11.3 | The Tom Wood Show. |
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| 0:35.3 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. You do not have to be a fan of the theater to appreciate this |
| 0:40.8 | episode, but I am going to mention the theater at the very beginning because that's where I got |
| 0:44.7 | the idea for today's topic. As many of you know, I am a big, big fan of the theater and I love |
| 0:51.2 | going to Broadway shows. Yes, I know all the problems about New York and I did not go to |
| 0:57.2 | any show when there were masks or certainly not vaccine mandates. I'm not going to do that, but |
| 1:02.9 | it is one of my, I wouldn't say quite guilty pleasure. |
| 1:06.4 | Is my old friend Jean Epstein shares my interest in this particular pastime, but anyway, |
| 1:12.8 | I want to start off by mentioning something that's going on on Broadway that is of relevance to you, |
| 1:18.4 | whether or not you care about the theater. I was looking at an article at Broadwaydirect.com |
| 1:25.1 | and the article is called a new 1776 for 2022. So the purpose of that, or the meaning behind that |
| 1:33.8 | headline is that there's going to be a Broadway revival of 1776, which is a historical musical. |
| 1:41.8 | And of course, it surrounds the decision for independence and the declaration of independence. |
| 1:48.2 | Well, no surprise there, right? It's a somewhat well-known musical. Revivals happen all the time |
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