Ben Franklin's World Podcast Transcripts
Liz Covart · 521 episodes with transcripts
This is a multiple award-winning podcast about early American history. It’s a show for people who love history and who want to know more about the historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present-day world.
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452 How Everyday Loyalists Experienced the Revolution
October 6, 2026
Liz Covart (0:00)
Ben Franklin's World is a production of Clio Digital Media.
Kacy Tillman (0:04)
So Margaret would love to be left alone, but her house is right on the river where a lot of the soldiers are coming in. And she's a Quaker, so she's already suspected of being a Loyalist, because if you're not with us, you're against us. And they're kind of right, because she's hiding a poet and a Loyalist, Jonathan…
But little did he know she was hiding a Tory spy upstairs. So to buy Hodel time to hide in that weird secret room behind the trick bookcase, she puts on this show of being a dumb old woman for the soldiers who have asked to come in and search the house.
Liz Covart (1:03)
Hello and welcome to episode 452 of Ben Franklin's World. The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in. And I'm your host, Liz Covart. In October 1781, news of the British surrender at Yorktown reached…
From our present day, we often ask why Americans chose to remain loyal and why they did not want to seek independence. But the question that Americans asked at the time of the American Revolution was more pressing. How could they protect their families, property, and honor when neighbors, committees, and crowds…
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