EARLY: Colonel Tye and the Black Loyalists of the American Revolution

Really cool episode. I actually wrote my senior thesis on black soldiers who fought for the patriots. This episode is kinda making me wish I wrote about the loyalist black soldiers. Probably would’ve had a lot more sources as well

Shoutout to the cameo appearance of the Salone Krio! Sadly, the Krio's proximity and history with the Crown meant they reaped most of the benefits from the colonial administration at the expense of their local neighbors, which planted the inequity that would eventually bloom into a decade long civil war in the '90s-00s.

Theory for why they called it the “Ethiopian Regiment” despite it being inaccurate: the word “Ethiopian” derives from a Greek phrase meaning “burnt faces” & was a generic term in Classical times for anyone with dark skin. Presumably, the British commanders being all fancy boys with classical educations knew this & could have picked it for that reason

You mentioned the citadel, I am something of an expert on the cursed place. If you got any questions hmu

You bastard! You killed Nick! You killed Nick for being Mexican! How could you??!! 🇲🇽🌮🌯

this is such a good episode!

I’m pretty sure Joe tried to say obfuscating, but what he actually said sounds more credible for the late 1700s.

I’ve listened to basically your entire back-catalog in the last few months and I can honestly say this is probably my favorite standalone episode. Well done.

An absolute banger of an episode. Going to have to play this for my parents. Thanks guys!

Seriously though. Great soapbox segment at the end. Fuck nations. I am unfortunately a fellow swede and every time Liam talks about that stuff I wonder if he realizes how insanely shameful that is turning out to be. We have a reform nazi party that's like 50/50 to be in the next government here and they're openly talking about starting an ethnic cleansing. It's fucking insane and incredibly depressing. I realize that it's different if you're just an ethnic swede or whatever having grown up in the states and I'm not calling Liam out or anything but it would be nice if he could grumble "fuck sweden" everytime he mentions it or something.

Wrong side won! And by that I mean that it's a fucking tragedy that the native americans didn't drive the europeans into the sea as soon as they first landed.

Small gripe here but can you take the patreon plug out for the early eps

Citadel grad here- yeah the school puts out some fucked people. The younger grads are better than the boomers.