Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, September 12, 1857, the SS Central America, also known as the Ship of Gold,

sank in a hurricane off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. 425 of the 578 passengers and crew aboard perished.

Some 30,000 pounds of gold sank to the bottom of the ocean.

Now, listen to us before you stop this podcast and go jump in a dinghy and try and go find that gold,

you should know that it was actually found most of it, not that long ago in 1988,

which is a saga of its own, which we get into but back in 1857 this gold was headed to the East coast from California where there was as you may know a gold rush and the fact that it didn't make it to the East Coast may have caused the financial

panic of 1857, which may have destabilized the northern economy, which may have forestalled

the split between north and south, which may have extended slavery. It is all very interesting,

and we will get into it all with, as always,

Nicole Hammer of Columbia, and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.

Hello there.

Hi.

Hey there. I love this thread you can pull on and find all these other things but what's going on the night of

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Yeah, so we should say that,

okay, let me just back up by saying that like,

so I'm all into the Titanic, right?

I'm all into sinking ships.

But I think that.

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