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In Charleston, South Carolina, in the years before the Civil War, a white attorney and son of a prominent plantation owner fights to prove that a former slave is a free man — as the city slowly tears itself apart. Charleston is a narrative podcast set at one of the most explosive moments in Charleston history — the decade before the Civil War, when the city that had long considered itself the cultural and intellectual capital of the American South was hardening into something more dangerous, more certain of itself, and more willing to defend what it had built at any cost. Follow the show on Instagram: https://instagram.com/charleston1856
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Update frequency:
every 22 days
Average audio length:
26 minutes
English
United States
2 episodes
since May 20, 2026
episodic
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On a Tuesday morning on Chalmers Street, a man runs. He makes it forty yards before they catch him and bring him back through the gate. Within thirty seconds the people on the sidewalk have returned to their business. Nothing happened here. That is what Charleston decides within thirty seconds. Not…
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May 22nd, 1856. A congressman from South Carolina walks onto the floor of the United States Senate with a metal-tipped cane and beats a Massachusetts senator unconscious at his desk. In Charleston, the city celebrates.
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