TN Week: State of Franklin (1784) w/ Jane Carr

This Day in Esoteric Political History

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🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Big news! Niki Hemmer is moving to Vanderbilt University to teach and found a center on the presidency. To help her get up to speed, she’s hosting “Tennessee Week” on the show with a few conversations around some key and fascinating moments in TN history.

Today, Niki and Kellie are joined by Jane Carr, editor at CNN and Memphis native, to discuss the “State of Franklin,” a short-lived breakaway republic in what is now eastern Tennessee.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history. I'm Nicole Hemmer.
0:11.0	I'm once again resting the microphone away from Jody Avergan who has fled the country
0:16.1	and using this time to explore the history of my new adopted state of Tennessee.
0:22.0	But today we are going to talk about a different state, the state of Franklin.
0:27.1	You know how we at this day love a short-lived breakaway republic and boy do we have a good one for
0:32.2	you. In this month August 1784 the state of
0:36.0	Franklin broke away from North Carolina in what is now eastern Tennessee I say
0:42.0	broke away from North Carolina, that's not quite right. North
0:44.8	Carolina gave it to the federal government. The federal government was like, what are we
0:49.2	supposed to do with this? And then North Carolina decided it wanted the area back and finally the
0:53.7	citizens of Franklin were like screw you guys we're creating our own state so we
0:58.6	will get into all those twists and turns and to help us out as always is Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley College.
1:05.8	Kelly hello.
1:07.6	Hey there, super excited to be doing this.
1:10.0	I know it's an all-lady show.
1:12.4	I know, I feel like we're going rogue. And our special guest in this episode, Tennessee native Jane Card. Jane is also a brilliant editor at CNN.
1:23.4	It's so good to have you here.
1:25.3	Welcome.
1:26.3	Thank you.
1:27.3	It's great to be here and I have to say my home state is getting a great one.
1:30.7	Uh, excited to see you in the state of Tennessee, Nicky.
1:34.0	Oh, thank you.
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