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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Lettuce, Slavery, and the Bibb Legacy

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History

4.224.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

John Bibb is credited with cultivating Bibb lettuce. But his family’s legacy, good and bad, is all tied to having enslaved people build their familial wealth.

Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future.

0:04.5

But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show.

0:10.1

And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it.

0:12.6

And maybe you're not interested in internet culture and the future of life on planet Earth.

0:18.1

And why John Carpenter movies are so good.

0:20.6

You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about.

0:26.6

And that's fine, you know, no judgment.

0:28.4

But if you like what you're hearing and I know that you do, you can listen to all of what future on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:58.4

I'm Barry Edelstein, artistic director of the Old Globe in San Diego, one of the country's leading Shakespeare theaters.

1:17.4

My podcast, Where There's a Will Finding Shakespeare from the Globe and Pushkin Industries, is kind of a scavenger hunt for Shakespeare.

1:25.4

Because Shakespeare keeps popping up in all sorts of unexpected places.

1:30.4

Why? What does it mean about him? And what does it mean about us?

1:34.4

Listen to where there's a will on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:40.4

Welcome to Stuff You Mist in History class, a production of I Heart Radio.

1:46.4

Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Holly Fry and I'm Tracy V Wilson.

1:57.4

Tracy.

1:59.4

This episode was supposed to be another installment of a ponomous food.

2:04.4

Yeah, it went a different way though.

2:06.4

It is not. It is little.

2:08.4

But as I got into the story of one of those foods, it really unfurled quite quickly into a much bigger and much more important story about the family of a man who cultivated lettuce in his later life.

2:20.4

Just as it's up by promise there's another eponymous food coming at some point, but it's not today.

2:27.4

This story is, I think really important because it offers a snapshot of a very rich person's choice to emancipate his enslaved workforce, the way his family received that information and how their legacy, both good and bad is all tied to having enslaved people building their familial wealth.

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