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Rogue History
The Founding Father They Don't Teach You About
Season 3
Episode 4
The British government vowed freedom to enslaved people if they could escape and take up arms against their Patriot enslavers. But when the British failed to deliver promised land in Nova Scotia, the Black Loyalists needed a leader to step up, sail across the ocean, and demand a solution. That man would be Thomas Peters, a former prince who escaped enslavement in North Carolina.
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Thomas Peters challenged the British Empire on their broken promises to Black Loyalists.
11:51
Peggy Shippen came closer to ending the American Revolution than any general ever did.
12:01
Was the founding father of the American Navy a pirate?
7:43
A network of traveling merchant-spies were essential to the expansion of the Aztec Empire.
7:37
The largest enslaved insurrection in US history was planned for 1856– and then called off.
9:56
A group of women mathematicians uncovered Soviet spies– but received none of the credit.
10:06
Ninjas are famous in popular culture, but behind the stereotypes lie a legendary history.
11:02
Chevalier d’Eon was a spy, fencer, and gender identity trailblazer who blackmailed a King.
9:27
“I wanted to start a personal war with Hitler. And I wanted to fight with my imagination.”
9:09
This musician spied on Black socialists then criticized the government for being racist.
10:17
A year into the Civil War, the Union Army unveiled their secret weapon: spy balloons.
9:50
One pirate’s tale of buried treasure led to generations of treasure hunting.