The Continental Congress, eager to begin settling western lands, forces native tribes to sign the treaties of Fort Stanwix (1784), Fort McIntosh (1785) and Fort Finney (1786) to relinquish claims to large portions of land in what is today the state of Ohio. Congress passes the Land Ordinance of 1785 to define exactly how blocks of this land would be transferred to private parties, either through veterans' grants, or through sales.Blog <a href="https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2024/12/arp336-planning-northwest-territory.html">https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com</a> includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.Book Recommendation of the Week: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807107859?&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=amrevpodcast-20&amp;linkId=ce42c47c404463bbcc9fcd986826768a&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl">Arthur Lee, A Virtuous Revolutionary</a>, by Louis Potts (borrow on archive.org).Online Recommendation of the Week: The Land Ordinance of 1785: A Bicentennial Review: <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/27790853">http://www.jstor.org/stable/27790853</a>Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast">https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast</a>Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: <a href="https://amrevpod.quora.com/">https://amrevpod.quora.com</a>Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271">https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271</a>Follow the podcast on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/amrevpodcast">@AmRevPodcast</a>Join the podcast mail list: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy">https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy </a>ARP T-shirts and other merch: <a href="https://www.teepublic.com/stores/american-revolution-podcast?ref_id=23124">http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast</a>Support this podcast on Patreon <a href="https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast">https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast</a>or via PayPal <a href="http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast">http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

<description>The Continental Congress, eager to begin settling western lands, forces native tribes to sign the treaties of Fort Stanwix (1784), Fort McIntosh (1785) and Fort Finney (1786) to relinquish claims to large portions of land in what is today the state of Ohio. Congress passes the Land Ordinance of 1785 to define exactly how blocks of this land would be transferred to private parties, either through veterans' grants, or through sales.
Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.
Book Recommendation of the Week: Arthur Lee, A Virtuous Revolutionary, by Louis Potts (borrow on archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Land Ordinance of 1785: A Bicentennial Review: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27790853
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As Commissioners force Indians into treaties ceding land, Congress figures out how to divide up Ohio.

The Continental Congress, eager to begin settling western lands, forces native tribes to sign the treaties of Fort Stanwix (1784), Fort McIntosh (1785) and Fort Finney (1786) to relinquish claims to large portions of land in what is today the state of Ohio.  Congress passes the Land Ordinance of 1785 to define exactly how blocks of this land would be transferred to private parties, either through veterans' grants, or through sales.
Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.
Book Recommendation of the Week: Arthur Lee, A Virtuous Revolutionary, by Louis Potts  (borrow on archive.org).
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ARP336 Planning the Northwest Territory

Frustrated by the ill treatment of the eastern establishment. Three counties in western North Carolina vote for independence and form a new state named after Benjamin Franklin. They establish a new government, naming John Sevier as governor. North Carolina is not happy.Blog <a href="https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2024/12/arp335-state-of-franklin.html">https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com</a> includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.Book Recommendation of the Week: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0813129877?&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=amrevpodcast-20&amp;linkId=e0813f27b8fc8f44b6cde5f4f42ab698&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl">The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession</a>, by Kevin Barksdale (borrow on archive.org).Online Recommendation of the Week: History of the Lost State of Franklin, by Samuel Cole Williams: https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-EFE-229Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast">https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast</a>Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: <a href="https://amrevpod.quora.com/">https://amrevpod.quora.com</a>Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271">https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271</a>Follow the podcast on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/amrevpodcast">@AmRevPodcast</a>Join the podcast mail list: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy">https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy </a>ARP T-shirts and other merch: <a href="https://www.teepublic.com/stores/american-revolution-podcast?ref_id=23124">http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast</a>Support this podcast on Patreon <a href="https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast">https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast</a>or via PayPal <a href="http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast">http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

<description>Frustrated by the ill treatment of the eastern establishment. Three counties in western North Carolina vote for independence and form a new state named after Benjamin Franklin. They establish a new government, naming John Sevier as governor. North Carolina is not happy.
Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.
Book Recommendation of the Week: The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession, by Kevin Barksdale (borrow on archive.org).
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The Overmountain men of North Carolina form a new state.

Frustrated by the ill treatment of the eastern establishment. Three counties in western North Carolina vote for independence and form a new state named after Benjamin Franklin. They establish a new government, naming John Sevier as governor. North Carolina is not happy.
Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.
Book Recommendation of the Week: The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession, by Kevin Barksdale (borrow on archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: History of the Lost State of Franklin, by Samuel Cole Williams: https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-EFE-229
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ARP335 State of Franklin

Congress focuses on western lands to resolve its money problems. Blog <a href="https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2024/11/arp334-land-ordinance-of-1784.html">https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com</a> includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.Book Recommendation of the Week: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400067669?&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=amrevpodcast-20&amp;linkId=2a9d1e0a893c68465274a179c8221ee2&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl">Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power</a>, by Jon Meacham.Online Recommendation of the Week: Ohio in the time of the Confederation: <a href="https://archive.org/details/ohiointimeofconf03hulb">https://archive.org/details/ohiointimeofconf03hulb</a>Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast">https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast</a>Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: <a href="https://amrevpod.quora.com/">https://amrevpod.quora.com</a>Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271">https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271</a>Follow the podcast on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/amrevpodcast">@AmRevPodcast</a>Join the podcast mail list: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy">https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy </a>ARP T-shirts and other merch: <a href="https://www.teepublic.com/stores/american-revolution-podcast?ref_id=23124">http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast</a>Support this podcast on Patreon <a href="https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast">https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast</a>or via PayPal <a href="http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast">http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

<description>Congress focuses on western lands to resolve its money problems.

Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.
Book Recommendation of the Week: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham.
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Congress focuses on western lands to resolve its money problems.

Congress focuses on western lands to resolve its money problems.

Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.
Book Recommendation of the Week: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham.
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ARP334 Land Ordinance of 1784

At the end of the Revolutionary war, people began to deal with the ideals of freedom and equality while maintaining slavery. Northern states mostly put slavery on a slow path to eventual abolition. Sothern States do not. In Massachusetts, several slaves sue under the argument that the Constitutions claims that all men are born free and equal means that they are born free and equal.Blog <a href="https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2024/11/arp333-revolution-and-slavery.html">https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com</a> includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.Book Recommendation of the Week: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393882209?&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=amrevpodcast-20&amp;linkId=41a315813e646f6be6b11dacb768c223&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl">American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795</a>, by Edward J. LarsonOnline Recommendation of the Week: Notes on the history of slavery in Massachusetts, by GH Moore: <a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924027056039">https://archive.org/details/cu31924027056039</a>Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast">https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast</a>Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: <a href="https://amrevpod.quora.com/">https://amrevpod.quora.com</a>Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271">https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271</a>Follow the podcast on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/amrevpodcast">@AmRevPodcast</a>Join the podcast mail list: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy">https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy </a>ARP T-shirts and other merch: <a href="https://www.teepublic.com/stores/american-revolution-podcast?ref_id=23124">http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast</a>Support this podcast on Patreon <a href="https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast">https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast</a>or via PayPal <a href="http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast">http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

<description>At the end of the Revolutionary war, people began to deal with the ideals of freedom and equality while maintaining slavery. Northern states mostly put slavery on a slow path to eventual abolition. Sothern States do not. In Massachusetts, several slaves sue under the argument that the Constitutions claims that all men are born free and equal means that they are born free and equal.
Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.
Book Recommendation of the Week: American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, by Edward J. Larson
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When states talk about freedom for all in their constitutions, some slaves take that language literally.

At the end of the Revolutionary war, people began to deal with the ideals of freedom and equality while maintaining slavery. Northern states mostly put slavery on a slow path to eventual abolition. Sothern States do not. In Massachusetts, several slaves sue under the argument that the Constitutions claims that all men are born free and equal means that they are born free and equal.
Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.
Book Recommendation of the Week: American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, by Edward J. Larson
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ARP333 Revolution and Slavery

The American Revolution Podcast round table met on Zoom to discuss Lord Dunmore's War on the eve of the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Point Pleasant. Author Glenn Williams provided us with a great summary of those events.For more on this topic, get a copy of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594161666?&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=amrevpodcast-20&amp;linkId=a5703e07ab27cf2c64448c3da83f4c86&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl">Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era,</a> by Glenn Williams (available in paper, Kindle, or audio versions).You can also listen to my summary of the war in Episode 44: <a href="https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2018/05/episode-044-lord-dunmores-war.html">https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2018/05/episode-044-lord-dunmores-war.html</a>To sign up to participate in future live round table events, please sign up for my mailing list: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy">https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

<description>The American Revolution Podcast round table met on Zoom to discuss Lord Dunmore's War on the eve of the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Point Pleasant. Author Glenn Williams provided us with a great summary of those events.
For more on this topic, get a copy of Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era, by Glenn Williams (available in paper, Kindle, or audio versions).
You can also listen to my summary of the war in Episode 44: https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2018/05/episode-044-lord-dunmores-war.html
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Our round table is joined by Dr. Glenn Williams, author of Dunmore's War, to discuss the topic.

The American Revolution Podcast round table met on Zoom to discuss Lord Dunmore's War on the eve of the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Point Pleasant. Author Glenn Williams provided us with a great summary of those events.
For more on this topic, get a copy of Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era, by Glenn Williams (available in paper, Kindle, or audio versions).
You can also listen to my summary of the war in Episode 44: https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2018/05/episode-044-lord-dunmores-war.html
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AR-SP27 Lord Dunmore's War Round Table

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