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About the series: Hit and Run History - Falklands HO
About the series: Hit and Run History - Falklands HO
Hit and Run History
The Auction: The Columbia and Washington Medal
The Auction: The Columbia and Washington Medal
Hit and Run History
With only twenty known to exist, the Columbia and Washington Medal is the rarest American medal. In this series finale, the crew attends the sale of this national treasure in Philadelphia.
The Prisoner: Joseph Ingraham
The Prisoner: Joseph Ingraham
Hit and Run History
The crew of Hit and Run History heads to Boston to investigate a son of the North End, Joseph Ingraham.
The Rover: Captain Robert Gray
The Rover: Captain Robert Gray
Hit and Run History
The Hit and Run History crew roves across New England in search of Captain Robert Gray. Although the Columbia Expedition is Gray's claim to fame, the Rhode Island native’s personal history is murky. Following the end of slave trade in the Ocean State, Gray was chosen as second-in-command for the first American voyage around the world.
The Refugee: Samuel Brown
The Refugee: Samuel Brown
Hit and Run History
This webisode of Hit and Run History shows the tenacity it takes for historians to bring the past to light, as the crew tirelessly hunts for details about the life of the elusive Samuel Brown, a merchant from Newport, Rhode Island, and one of the many men involved in the Columbia Expedition—the first ship to circumnavigate the globe.
The Blackbirder: Captain Crowell Hatch
The Blackbirder: Captain Crowell Hatch
Hit and Run History
This webisode of Hit and Run History takes on a more sinister tone as the crew reveals how Columbia Expedition investor, Captain Crowell Hatch was deeply involved in the dehumanizing, but lucrative business of the slave trade.
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The subject: Captain Crowell Hatch, another investor in the Columbia Expedition. Hatch grew up in Marshfield, Mass. During the American Revolutionary War his family split apart when Crowell became a Patriot (Patriots are also known as Whigs) and his brother, Noah, sided with the British.
Crowell Hatch had, like other men who commanded privateers during the Revolution, a background in another risky and profitable market: The slave trade. Crowell Hatch was one of the most notorious "Blackbirders."
This webisode of Hit and Run History takes on a more sinister tone as the crew heads to the South Coast of Massachusetts, following up on an interview from 2009 with James Lopes at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Producer and host historian Andrew Giles Buckley's discussion centers on the brutality of Hatch's day. To better understand how people can become so deeply involved in the dehumanizing business of slavery, we only need look to the pre-war events of Hatch's hometown to see how differently Americans regarded their fellow man in the 18th century.
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