{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/6a10208211eba3cf159b9fc4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Founding Fathers | The Original Brexit | 3","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/1779441504426-12d2b575-bd1b-49e7-8706-ab018d95922e.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Who was the boring lawyer who quietly built the machine that made America work? Was John Adams so relentlessly right that even his allies couldn't stand him? And, how did the man who wrote the most beautiful words on human equality spend decades owning the woman who bore his children?</p><p>Peter and Afua tear into the contradictions of 1776 — the forgotten architect, the honest man nobody liked, and the wordsmith whose legacy history has never quite known what to do with.</p><p><br></p><p>0:00 The original Brexit: what 1776 really was </p><p>6:00 John Jay — the unsung hero who built the legal framework of a nation </p><p>11:00 The Federalist Papers and the Roman Republic obsession </p><p>14:00 Jay's reluctant revolution: the man who wanted reconciliation </p><p>16:00 Enter Thomas Jefferson: plantation privilege and the Declaration of Independence </p><p>18:30 Jefferson at his desk — and the enslaved people outside the window </p><p>21:00 Martha, Sally Hemings, and the relationship history tried to bury </p><p>25:00 John Adams: the honest man too competent for his own good </p><p>31:00 Rome's collapse, checks and balances, and why they feared what they were building </p><p>36:00 Jefferson gave the revolution its language, Jay its structure, Adams its urgency</p><p><br></p><p>Join <strong>Legacy Plus</strong> for bonus episodes, early access, Q&amp;A's, fewer adverts and more. </p><p><strong>legacy.supportingcast.fm</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Stay connected with Legacy: </p><p>Instagram: @originallegacypodcast </p><p>TikTok: @legacy_productions </p><p><br></p><p>Explore more from Peter and Afua — essays, sources, and ideas: </p><p>Substack: peterfrankopan.substack.com | afuahirsch.substack.com</p>","author_name":"Original Legacy Productions"}