RPTM Podcast Episode Thirteen: Plantations, Medicine, Georgia, Saint Malo, and the Albany Plan

Rule Ten for history might ruffle some feathers. Remember that perception is more important than reality. Before you report me as some doublespeak Big Brother agent, look at the current world we live in. The Age of Information never promised to be useful information, let alone accurate information. Social media is riddled with half-truths, pretenses, manipulated numbers, and flat out lies. This is to be expected, mainly when we accept that human beings are all emotional beings. And emotions can subdue logic often quickly and effortlessly. If you want to believe an election was stolen, you will. But one does not have to go far in history to see events veiled in fabrication that swayed public opinion. There are almost no cases in which the United States has been to War that hasn't been more fiction than fact.  Whether you choose to believe in systemic racism or the presence of "weapons of mass destruction," history does not bother with these things.

So, if we can manipulate the outcomes of our future, can we predict what happens next?

HIGHLIGHTS

• The Plantation Act 1740 or the Naturalization Act became effective on 1 June 1740 and allowed any Protestant alien residing in any of their American colonies for seven years, without being absent from that colony for more than two months, to be deemed "his Majesty's natural-born subjects of this Kingdom."
• Colonial-era health care was based primarily on traditional medicines and traditional cures. Professionalization was very slow before 1750. There were a handful of cities of more than 20,000 population, each of which had physicians trained in England and Scotland and a growing number of locally trained men. 
• When he founded Savannah, the capital of his newly chartered Georgia colony, James Oglethorpe had some utopian ideas. His planned city would be built around four squares and four simple prohibitions. No rum. No slavery. No lawyers. No Papists.
• Lydia Chapin Taft's historic vote would precede the Constitutional Amendment for women's suffrage by 164 years and would elevate her from the role of wife and mother to a symbol of women's suffrage.
• Saint-Malo was the first permanent settlement of Filipinos and perhaps the first Asian-American settlement in the United States. 
•  The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. Although never carried out, the Albany Plan was the first vital proposal to conceive the colonies as a collective whole united under one Government.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Start
0:37 Intro
1:57 1740 Plantation Act
6:45 Colonial Era Medicine
11:33 Georgia Plan
16:20 Women's First Vote
20:02 Saint-Malo
26:03 Albany Plan of the Union
33:15 Outro
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RESOURCES
Plantation Act 1740
 History of medicine in the United States
No Liquor! No Slaves! No Lawyers! No Catholics!
Debtors in Georgia
America’s First Legal Woman Voter
Saint Malo, Louisiana
 Albany Plan of Union, 1754
 What was the Albany Plan of Union of 1754?

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