Episode 017—Open Skate on the Open Sea
Season 2, baby! Cass and Nat are back with a vengeance...if a vengeance is the tale of the slave-catching schooner, HMS Black Joke, and a brief history of roller skating and how it owes everything to the African American community.
HMS Black Joke + Ships it Captured
Sources for the HMS Black Joke story: Wikipedia, Daily Mail
Sources for the skating story: Vice, GroovyHistory.com, Journal of the Civil War Era Vol. 5, No. 2 - "We Do Not Care Particularly about the Skating Rinks": African American Challenges to Racial Discrimination in Places of Public Amusement in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Massachusetts - MILLINGTON W. BERGESON-LOCKWOOD
Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz