Episode 165: Remembering Charleston’s Liberty Tree, Part 2

Charleston Time Machine - A podcast by Nic Butler, Ph.D. - Fridays

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After citizens planned rebellion and celebrated independence beneath Charleston’s Liberty Tree, British soldiers tried to obliterate its legacy. Some sons of the Revolution never forgot its symbolic role, and preserved memories of the tree throughout the nineteenth century. Thanks to their trail of clues, we can reconstruct a path to the site of the tree that once symbolized resistance against injustice.