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  • The Founding Fathers — Uncover the men behind the myths with Barnaby Ellison Thatch
    Apr 7 2026
    Join host Barnaby Ellison Thatch as he strips away the mythology surrounding America's Founding Fathers to reveal the complicated, contradictory men behind the marble monuments. This unflinching podcast examines the slaveholders who penned words about liberty, the geniuses who couldn't confront their own hypocrisy, and the few who evolved. History as it happened: messy, magnificent, and deeply human.

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    1 min
  • The Founding Fathers — Who They Really Were - The Ones Who Changed Their Minds
    Apr 7 2026
    Barnaby Ellison Thatch examines Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and John Jay—three Founding Fathers who owned slaves but eventually opposed slavery. Through late-life activism, deathbed manumissions, and gradual legislation, they wrestled with the gap between America's founding ideals and their personal complicity, revealing the messy, incomplete nature of moral reckoning in a nation built on contradiction.

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    34 min
  • The Founding Fathers — Who They Really Were - Jefferson's Trembling Hand
    Apr 7 2026
    Barnaby Ellison Thatch examines Thomas Jefferson's profound contradiction: the author of "all men are created equal" enslaved over 200 people. This episode explores Jefferson's brilliant rhetoric versus his moral cowardice, his relationship with Sally Hemings, and why his words outlived his hypocrisy to fuel America's ongoing struggle for justice.

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    29 min
  • The Founding Fathers — Who They Really Were - The Ink Was Still Wet and the Chains Were Still On
    Apr 7 2026
    Host Barnaby Ellison Thatch examines the profound contradiction at America's founding: 73% of Declaration signers owned enslaved people while proclaiming all men equal. Drawing on letters, legislative records, and historical analysis, the episode explores how Founders like Jefferson, Washington, and Franklin navigated this hypocrisy—some evolving toward abolition, most compromising freedom for unity, all shaping debates that echo today.

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    24 min