Episode 7: The Divide

05/02/24 • 61 min

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With a blueprint in place for transforming British America into an empire of order, George III's goverment begins sending an army of cartographers to map North America, while diplomats in the colonies open negogiations with native nations to draw a boundary line between British and Indigenous America.

Featuring: Max Edelson, Maeve Kane, and Alexandra Montgomery

Voice Actors: Amber Pelham, Nate Sleeter, James Craggs, Luke Jenson-Jones, and Beau Robbins

Narrated by Jim Ambuske.

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This episode is made possible with support from the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission.

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Featuring: Max Edelson, Maeve Kane, and Alexandra Montgomery

Voice Actors: Amber Pelham, Nate Sleeter, James Craggs, Luke Jenson-Jones, and Beau Robbins

Narrated by Jim Ambuske.

Find the official transcript here.

This episode is made possible with support from the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission.

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Worlds Turned Upside Down is a production of R2 Studios at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

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Featuring: Fred Anderson, Matthew Dziennik, Max Edelson, and Alexandra Montgomery

Voice Actors: Grace Mallon and Beau Robbins.

Narrated by Jim Ambuske.

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This episode is made possible with support from the John Carter Brown Library, an independent research library located on the campus of Brown University.

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Worlds Turned Upside Down - Episode 7: The Divide

Transcript

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This episode of Worlds Turned Upside DOwn is supported by the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission.

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The weather was fair on Saturday morning November the fifth 1763. But tension hung in the air as Captain John Stuart rose to address the more than 800 of Creeks, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Catawbas who had gathered in the small town of Augusta, Georgia. On orders from King George the Third's minist