THE ONE WHO STAYED Caty Taylor

What'sHerName

Dr. Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

What really matters in life? Family, love, kindness, freedom…? And if you had to pick just one, which would it be? Caty Taylor, enslaved at Montpelier Plantation, had to choose. Her brother was sold, her sister joined the largest escape attempt in American history… but Caty stayed. They all took different paths but – miracle of miracles – found a happy ending. Learn more about Caty and many of the plantation’s other enslaved residents at Montpelier’s wonderful Naming Project. Discover more amazing art by Mera MacKendrick, who created our incredible Caty Taylor illustration, on her website or her Instagram. Read the full text of “Fugitives of the Pearl" here (read for us by James Henderson). Special thanks to Kate Stewart and Caleb Slama. Guest Hilarie M. Hicks is the Director of Museum Programs at James Madison’s Montpelier. She served on the research and writing team for the award-winning exhibition The Mere Distinction of Colour, and is currently writing biographies of the enslaved for The Naming Project on Montpelier’s Digital Doorway website. Hilarie previously served as Curator of Interpretation at Tryon Palace Historic Sites & Gardens (New Bern, NC) and Executive Director of the Rosewell Foundation (Gloucester, VA). She is an alum of the College of William and Mary (B.A.), the Cooperstown Graduate Program in History Museum Studies (M.A.), and the Seminar for Historical Administration. Music for this episode was provided by Emmit Fenn, I Think I Can Help You, and the Library of Congress. Want to help us “make history”? Become a Patron or Donate here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now, are all the traitors present?
0:02.5	Let's get started, shall we?
0:04.5	From rags to riches.
0:05.8	I'm so sick of this.
0:07.0	Working like a dog and being treated worse.
0:09.1	Yorkshire to New York.
0:10.7	Or climbers, you and me.
0:12.4	A life dedicated to revenge.
0:14.4	Let's make this an occasion to remember.
0:16.9	A woman of substance on Channel 4.
0:19.1	Stream now.
0:19.8	This episode was sponsored by Fair Anita. a shopping website challenging norms within the fashion industry
0:25.5	and partnering with 8,000 women in nine countries around the world to create fair trade
0:31.2	handmade products from female artists and partners that are paid two to three times minimum wage.
0:37.4	Fairanita.com.
0:39.2	And by our patrons, Tam Zane Weir, Jessica Smith, Rachel Kay, Janelleys Cannon, Jamie Lang, Jill Harrigan,
0:48.1	Maria Sanchez, Heather McKinnon, Valerie Jacobson, Chantelle Oliver, Caitlin McTaggart, Juniper, Tracy Steeb, Eugene Lewis,
0:57.8	Eric and Carolyn Schumway, Bo Yeager, Taylor Anzalone, Danielle Powery, Brian Elynes, and Eden Engberg.
1:06.6	Thank you so much for being our sponsors. We could not do it without you.
1:15.6	Hi, Olivia.
1:16.6	Hi, Katie.
1:18.5	Simple question to start out.
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