SYMHC Classics: Double Agent James Armistead and the American Revolution

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Today's classics revisits an episode from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina about James Armistead. He was a slave in Virginia, but got his master's approval to enlist when the Revolutionary War came. Armistead worked as a spy.

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0:33.1	Happy Saturday, everybody.
0:35.0	I recently ran into a young listener of our show who said that her favorite episodes
0:40.1	were the ones that are connected in some way to Hamilton.
0:43.1	So today we have pulled something Hamilton adjacent out of the archives.
0:47.3	It is Sarah Endablina's 2013 episode on James Armistead,
0:51.5	an enslaved man who worked as a double agent during the Revolutionary War,
0:55.8	whose handler was the Marquit Elafa yet.
0:58.8	So let's jump right in.
1:00.8	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class from HouseStopWorks.com.
1:12.8	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
1:14.8	I'm Sarah Dowdy.
1:15.8	And I'm DeBlina Chalker Boarding.
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