win a free treatment. shepard: on this day in 1804, alexander hamilton and aaron burr faced off in a duel. burr was vice president, hamilton the former treasury secretary. burr challenged hamilton to a
they would fight the french. they get possessed by their spirits who then say to them we re your backup. two weeks later, they start poisoning wells and lighting fires. and the revolution is on. and the white french are freaked because the africans have this multipronged rebellion. by 1804, they liberate the country and declared independence. they abolished slavery, and they make every haitian person a free citizen who is eligible to work the land and be equal. so in a sense, vodou becomes this force for liberation. it was unthinkable to the west, to france that a non-christian power could overcome a christian power. that conflict is still gog on. the idea of this conflict between christianity and vodou and what it means for the island. so the evangelicals think that vodou is demonic.
they sacrificed a pig, they took an oath together that they would fight the french. they d get possessed by their spirits who then say to them, we re your back-up. two weeks later they start poisoning wells and lighting fires and the revolution is on and the white french are freaked because the africans have this multi-pronged rebellion. by 1804, they liberate the country and declare it independent, they apolish slavery, and they make every haitian person a free citizen who is eligible to, you know, work the land and be equal. so in a sense, vodou becomes this force for liberation. it was unthinkable to the west, to france, that a non-christian power could overcome a christian power. tha conflict is still going on, the idea of this conflict between christianity and vodou and what it means for the
they took an oath together that they would fight the french. they get possessed by their spirits who then say to them we re your backup. two weeks later, they start poisoning wells and lighting fires. and the revolution is on. and the white french are freaked because the africans have this multipronged rebellion. by 1804, they liberate the country and declared independence. they abolished slavery, and they make every haitian person a free citizen who is eligible to work the land and be equal. so in a sense, vodou becomes this force for liberation. it was unthinkable to believe to the west, to france that a non-christian power could overcome a christian power. that conflict is still going on. the idea of this conflict between christianity and vodou and what it means for the island. so the evangelicals think that vodou is demonic. they looked at the ceremony and
that polluted vehicle. that s true, jefferson said that in 1804. reporters tend to respond with a different jefferson quote before he was elected president. he said were it left to me decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, i should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. i d like to highlight what he said next. he said i should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them. he s literally talking about literacy, media and news literacy. it was important 230 years ago when different papers had different partisan points of view and it is essential today. i don t know about you but my head is spinning sometimes. news media norms and the ways we consume news are changing so rapidly. it s hard to keep up. trump and his aides take advantage of this by casting reporters as villains. i experienced this first hand a few days ago when i went on the bbc and trump aide was on right