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- 1:20Speaker 1: What now the history podcast? That's not your history class
- 1:23Speaker 1: with me, your host Kertie Charlwood, History Harlotte and reader
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- 1:46Speaker 1: all of my own sub It would be handy to
- 1:48Speaker 1: have a team, because oh my goodness, I'm so busy.
- 1:50Speaker 3: Like I'm so busy my brain is about to melt
- 1:53Speaker 3: out of my ears and drip like olumpic custard. So
- 1:56Speaker 3: that's not fun.
- 1:58Speaker 1: So like, over the last month or so, I've had
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- 2:05Speaker 1: out to me and be like, come join us and get.
- 2:08Speaker 3: This special, super awesome thing.
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- 2:14Speaker 1: are you offering me? Like how does this differ to
- 2:17Speaker 1: what I'm on? How is this going to benefit me?
- 2:18Speaker 3: More. It just didn't make sense to me, Like why would.
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- 2:53Speaker 3: What I was supposed to do.
- 2:56Speaker 1: The entire switchover even so smooth. It was like the
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- 3:04Speaker 1: when I caused it, which you know, is fairly good.
- 3:08Speaker 1: I'm so sorry to the people that had to deal
- 3:10Speaker 1: with me. But yeah, it was good. It was good,
- 3:13Speaker 1: and I'm really really happy where I am. It's actually
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- 3:18Speaker 1: Like I cannot recommend this enough.
- 3:21Speaker 3: And I know you're.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Probably thinking, ah bah bah bah bah, she's talking nonsense
- 3:24Speaker 1: because she's moved to them but seriously, everything is easier.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Everything regarding the episodes is actually clearer. It's easier for
- 3:34Speaker 1: me to do. I have to like go and like
- 3:36Speaker 1: retrofit stuff, go back and fix things and do stuff there.
- 3:40Speaker 1: But I had to listen to like my old stuff,
- 3:45Speaker 1: so I had to go back to old episodes and
- 3:48Speaker 1: listen to myself.
- 3:50Speaker 3: I'm so sorry.
- 3:51Speaker 1: This is why I tell everybody not to listen to
- 3:53Speaker 1: the old stuff, because it's not I mean, the content
- 3:57Speaker 1: is good, like the stuff that's coming out is good
- 3:59Speaker 1: the fact, right, it's just the presentation which is lacking
- 4:06Speaker 1: because there are so many weird like pauses and weird
- 4:10Speaker 1: edits I've done, which is me going, oh well, I'll
- 4:14Speaker 1: take out the silences. But I just want to sound
- 4:16Speaker 1: natural and obviously like I haven't quite found my voice
- 4:19Speaker 1: and how I'm going to tell stories, because I want
- 4:22Speaker 1: it to still sound like me, but I want it
- 4:24Speaker 1: to actually be coherent and for you to understand it.
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- 4:36Speaker 1: The two, and that can be a little bit peculiar
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- 4:43Speaker 3: See what something that I'd like to re record, and I.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Might even do it as a lie because I think
- 4:47Speaker 1: that'll be quite fun if people haven't heard it. And
- 4:50Speaker 1: that's the shark Arm Murder, because I listened to that.
- 4:55Speaker 1: I remember even listening to it afterwards, like not long
- 4:58Speaker 1: after I'd put it up, and I'm thinking, what the
- 5:01Speaker 1: fuck is wrong with me? Because all I'm doing is
- 5:04Speaker 1: talking incredibly fast, Like I actually had.
- 5:08Speaker 3: Someone there with me that day and I was telling
- 5:11Speaker 3: them it.
- 5:12Speaker 1: I was trying to be like natural and be able
- 5:14Speaker 1: to explain this toff person, and I was trying to
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- 5:18Speaker 3: And clearly that.
- 5:19Speaker 1: Is not the case, because I sound like someone physically
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- 5:27Speaker 1: a higher way to do it, I'm doing it really fast,
- 5:29Speaker 1: so it's it's not great. And so like there was
- 5:33Speaker 1: some stuff that I'd like to just redo, and then
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- 5:41Speaker 1: but there's some stuff that I really want to save
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- 6:05Speaker 3: I fits if there's.
- 6:07Speaker 1: You know, demand for it, if somebody wants to come
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- 6:13Speaker 3: That's just how it works. So there's stuff that I'm like, oh,
- 6:16Speaker 3: that's so good.
- 6:17Speaker 1: I love I want to tell people about it because
- 6:19Speaker 1: I am so impatient, Like I don't have patience quite
- 6:22Speaker 1: a lot of the time, because I just want to
- 6:24Speaker 1: constantly do stuff and share stuff. But there's a lot
- 6:26Speaker 1: of work that has to go into it before that
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- 6:32Speaker 1: just keep thinking, oh fuck, that'd be a really good
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- 6:36Speaker 3: So it's pushed to the side away a bit.
- 6:38Speaker 1: And then I've got stuff which is related to the
- 6:40Speaker 1: book that I'm currently writing, and I'm like, well, I
- 6:42Speaker 1: should probably wait till i'm promoting the book to actually
- 6:46Speaker 1: do that, and it's a whole thing, and I'm and
- 6:50Speaker 1: I'm consistently busy. I mean, who needs sleep's for the week?
- 6:53Speaker 1: Right I'm kidding, sleep, This is not your mental health matters,
- 6:58Speaker 1: and sleep deprivation is a torture method. I just want
- 7:02Speaker 1: to make that clear, so you know, get your rest.
- 7:06Speaker 1: But anyway, I know what you're thinking, you're thinking, what
- 7:08Speaker 1: your jibber chabber in fact me, in fact you I will.
- 7:12Speaker 1: But first we've got to get our source on. Our
- 7:17Speaker 1: sources are American Resurrection and the seventeen eighty eight New
- 7:20Speaker 1: York Doctors Riot by Caroline DaCosta and Francesca Miller, The
- 7:26Speaker 1: Great Rights of New York by Joe Tyler, Snatching Bodies
- 7:31Speaker 1: by Scott Nelson, The Going New York City Riot that
- 7:35Speaker 1: shaped American Medicine by Best love Joy, And of course
- 7:39Speaker 1: we have our old favorites, History dot com and Smithsonian
- 7:42Speaker 1: dot com.
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- 7:49Speaker 7: imagine if I did the entire podcast with this voice?
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- 7:57Speaker 7: actually had someone complain the other day because I repeat
- 8:02Speaker 7: phrases from one episode to another, and I'm like, yeah,
- 8:08Speaker 7: it's kind of how it works. It's you know, how
- 8:11Speaker 7: I open it and how I lead on to the
- 8:13Speaker 7: next section. It's just a way for the listeners to
- 8:15Speaker 7: know what's coming next, especially if you've been with me
- 8:19Speaker 7: for a while, like some of you have been with
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- 8:22Speaker 1: Yes, some of you have been with me since like
- 8:24Speaker 1: the eleventh episode or something, and you have been listening
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- 9:00Speaker 1: the business end. I mean it's helped me get this far,
- 9:04Speaker 1: and honestly, and.
- 9:06Speaker 3: Can you see so many nice things.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Everyone's like, well, it's not for stroke, but you go,
- 9:11Speaker 1: yeah it is, Yeah it is. I mean it helped
- 9:12Speaker 1: me business wise. But I do like to hear the
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- 9:22Speaker 3: But that's not a story for another day. But anyway
- 9:25Speaker 3: to the.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Story, eighteenth century America seventeen eighty eight, we are what
- 9:31Speaker 1: five years after the war Revolutionary War, War of Independence,
- 9:36Speaker 1: I forget what it's called. And also I not work
- 9:38Speaker 1: with dates most of the time. And you're probably thinking
- 9:42Speaker 1: you were social scientists who specializes in history, but you're
- 9:45Speaker 1: not super great on dates.
- 9:47Speaker 3: I know, I know, it's it's a burden and a curse.
- 9:50Speaker 3: But so America, as we know it is the equivalent
- 9:53Speaker 3: of a newborn baby. And because old.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Habits die hard, it had lots of customs and traditions
- 9:59Speaker 1: and leaves which sort of trickled down.
- 10:02Speaker 3: From its you know, previous ruler Britain.
- 10:06Speaker 1: And because of this, resurrectionists and then like physicians, biosmosis
- 10:11Speaker 1: were not thought of too well back in the day.
- 10:15Speaker 1: During this time, countries were you know, pretty fucking religious,
- 10:20Speaker 1: to be honest with you. And you can see this
- 10:22Speaker 1: running through like the everyday lives of you know, people
- 10:24Speaker 1: in general. And one of the weird things that was
- 10:26Speaker 1: passed on was the belief that dissecting the body, like
- 10:31Speaker 1: doing anything to the body after death would basically make
- 10:34Speaker 1: their bodies mangled on judgment day, like they were worried
- 10:38Speaker 1: they would get to the pearly gates and their bodies
- 10:40Speaker 1: would all be like flibbery flobbery, broken and.
- 10:43Speaker 3: Cracked and just no good.
- 10:46Speaker 1: And another way theory that some of them had was
- 10:48Speaker 1: that by cutting the body and sort of dissecting it
- 10:51Speaker 1: and doing stuff like that, that you were actually letting
- 10:55Speaker 1: the soul escape. It wasn't being preserved, so it wouldn't
- 10:58Speaker 1: be able to like pass over properly. Also, in addition, furthermore,
- 11:04Speaker 1: there is that sort of again comes from.
- 11:06Speaker 3: The whole religious aspect of it, the whole cloud of shame.
- 11:11Speaker 1: The idea of your naked body deceased or not being
- 11:15Speaker 1: like moved around and looked at, touched and brooded, poked, pinched,
- 11:24Speaker 1: and who knows what other kind of stuff they might
- 11:26Speaker 1: do to it, Like the idea is just very Oh,
- 11:30Speaker 1: I don't want anybody to see me naked.
- 11:32Speaker 3: It's not gonna matter if you're dead, mate. Because here's
- 11:35Speaker 3: the thing.
- 11:35Speaker 1: Most people don't actually want to look at dead bodies,
- 11:39Speaker 1: especially naked ones. And the people that really do want
- 11:42Speaker 1: to look at that, they need therapy in some kind
- 11:45Speaker 1: of hobby that keeps them away from the general public,
- 11:48Speaker 1: like an interest in ornithology.
- 11:50Speaker 3: Go out and look at some birds, all right, that's fun.
- 11:54Speaker 1: So back in the day, we didn't really know too
- 11:56Speaker 1: much about the human body, especially the inside parts. To
- 12:00Speaker 1: this day, we still don't seem to know too much
- 12:02Speaker 1: about women's parts. But that's neither here in her there.
- 12:05Speaker 1: But back in the day especially, they didn't have a
- 12:07Speaker 1: fucking clue. So they had to learn. And how do
- 12:10Speaker 1: you learn by studying bodies? So physicians, doctors, surgeons, the
- 12:17Speaker 1: whole shabang, they would have to study bodies, and in
- 12:21Speaker 1: order to do so, they would actually need bodies to study.
- 12:25Speaker 1: So you've got a country that doesn't want anybody touching
- 12:29Speaker 1: their dead bodies, and you've got an entire profession that
- 12:33Speaker 1: absolutely require touching dead bodies.
- 12:38Speaker 3: Clearly, this is a less than.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Ideal situation to be in. And you've got these guys.
- 12:44Speaker 1: They really need fucking bodies, they need to get their
- 12:47Speaker 1: hands on them. And generally, as I mentioned, I think
- 12:52Speaker 1: in the body Statures supposed body Snatchels barking Hair episode,
- 12:58Speaker 1: there were absolutely zero bodies available for dissection, not morally,
- 13:07Speaker 1: not ethically, I mean, the whole concept of ethics hadn't
- 13:11Speaker 1: really been thought at that point. But morally, ethically, and
- 13:15Speaker 1: most importantly legally, there was no avenue. There was no option, nothing, none,
- 13:24Speaker 1: Unlike Britain, which did have one faintly legal supply route,
- 13:30Speaker 1: and that supply came straight from the hangman's noess, the
- 13:34Speaker 1: only bodies that could actually be dissected were those of criminals,
- 13:38Speaker 1: but you know, you do need to have a decent
- 13:40Speaker 1: amount of criminals. America just didn't have that option. However,
- 13:47Speaker 1: they did have an alternative group of people that they
- 13:50Speaker 1: could that it was perfectly acceptable to cut up and
- 13:55Speaker 1: dissect and do with as they will enslaved people, that's right,
- 14:00Speaker 1: slaves and of course any other non white minorities. So
- 14:05Speaker 1: that was a thing you could do. It was absolutely
- 14:08Speaker 1: dandy if you wanted to dissect.
- 14:10Speaker 3: Slaves, maybe a Native American or two.
- 14:14Speaker 8: And then general society would just turn a blind eye
- 14:19Speaker 8: to this happening to the bodies of you know, Irish
- 14:23Speaker 8: and German immigrants of the time too.
- 14:26Speaker 1: So they've got this very small, quite unreliable.
- 14:30Speaker 3: Pull from which to choose from.
- 14:32Speaker 1: So they've already got a lack of options. Considering the
- 14:36Speaker 1: complete lack of cadavers, many doctors felt they had absolutely
- 14:40Speaker 1: no other option.
- 14:41Speaker 3: But to turn to the resurrectionists, or.
- 14:44Speaker 1: More accurately in this case, to become resurrectionists themselves. Okay,
- 14:51Speaker 1: resurrectionist is just a really polite way of saying grave
- 14:55Speaker 1: robber and body snatcher.
- 14:58Speaker 3: And they were such a massive.
- 14:59Speaker 1: Problem in the eighteenth and nineteenth century that people started
- 15:03Speaker 1: guarding graves because obviously the fresher the body, the better,
- 15:09Speaker 1: Like it was such an issue that families would either
- 15:12Speaker 1: guard the graves themselves or pay someone to do it
- 15:16Speaker 1: for you know, just long enough for they felt that
- 15:17Speaker 1: the body wouldn't be worth nicking, which is fine during
- 15:22Speaker 1: like spring and summer, but once the colder weather hits
- 15:26Speaker 1: in its winter, like, the bodies are going to be
- 15:28Speaker 1: preserved longer, and it's going to be easier to steal them,
- 15:33Speaker 1: Like if you can get through the ground, you're getting
- 15:35Speaker 1: the body.
- 15:37Speaker 3: And so, because of the relationship with.
- 15:38Speaker 1: The resurrectionists and the fact they were actually physically cutting
- 15:42Speaker 1: up corpses, being a doctor or a physician in this
- 15:47Speaker 1: time period was seen as kind.
- 15:49Speaker 9: Of offensive and sacrilegious and just kind of shitty, like
- 15:54Speaker 9: it wasn't respectable, like it was basically barbaric, unlike today
- 16:00Speaker 9: where being a doctor or a surgeon really puts you
- 16:04Speaker 9: in like high esteem, at least upper middle class, you
- 16:08Speaker 9: know what I mean. And in seventeen eighty eight, because
- 16:12Speaker 9: the general public had this distrust and disdain for the
- 16:17Speaker 9: entire medical profession, the students at Columbia College weren't exactly
- 16:23Speaker 9: held in a high regard. And at this time you
- 16:27Speaker 9: didn't actually have to graduate from a professional medical school
- 16:31Speaker 9: in order to become a practicing doctor, like you didn't
- 16:35Speaker 9: actually need that. In Columbia College was the only medical
- 16:40Speaker 9: school in New York City, but it wasn't the only
- 16:43Speaker 9: place that you could study medicine. Naturally, those who could
- 16:46Speaker 9: afford to would attend private, not for credit classes at
- 16:51Speaker 9: the New York Hospital, taught by none other than Connecticut
- 16:55Speaker 9: born Dr Richard Bailey.
- 16:58Speaker 3: Bailey himself had studied.
- 16:59Speaker 1: In London under the incredibly famous.
- 17:02Speaker 3: Scottish surgeon John Hunter. Of course he was Scottish.
- 17:06Speaker 1: All the best ones are Scottish, which is why he
- 17:09Speaker 1: was one of the popular people to study under. And
- 17:12Speaker 1: part of his classes, which was a necessity, was anatomical dissection,
- 17:17Speaker 1: so cutting up cadavers, but again hard to come by.
- 17:25Speaker 1: They just didn't have enough bodies to go around This
- 17:28Speaker 1: led to some students grabbing a shovel and taking matters
- 17:31Speaker 1: into their own hands. Will others didn't actually want to
- 17:35Speaker 1: get their hands dirty outsourced the work to professional grave robbers.
- 17:42Speaker 3: Luckily enough for the medical students.
- 17:44Speaker 1: There were two graveyards relatively close to Columbia College, one
- 17:49Speaker 1: of which was the Pauper Cemetery, where like just the
- 17:51Speaker 1: poor people get dumped, and across the street was the
- 17:54Speaker 1: cemetery for enslaved people. And like, at this time one
- 17:58Speaker 1: fifth of New York, one fifth of the population was
- 18:01Speaker 1: black and the majority of which were This is going
- 18:06Speaker 1: to shock you all, we're enslaved people.
- 18:10Speaker 3: What do you know. I know, I'm surprised to so.
- 18:14Speaker 1: Because of their low social standing and absolutely ballocks rules
- 18:18Speaker 1: at the time, slaves were only allowed to be buried
- 18:22Speaker 1: outside the city limits.
- 18:24Speaker 3: They weren't allowed inside.
- 18:26Speaker 1: So effectively they're really really poor, the destitute and enslaved people.
- 18:32Speaker 1: They were all buried out there. I mean, at least
- 18:35Speaker 1: the paupers for the most part, got one person to
- 18:39Speaker 1: a grave, whereas in the other graveyard they were piling
- 18:43Speaker 1: in a couple of bodies to a grave at time. So,
- 18:45Speaker 1: because of its proximity to the college and the fact
- 18:49Speaker 1: that it was full, and because it was filled with
- 18:52Speaker 1: the people that society deemed less than if they deemed.
- 18:56Speaker 3: Them as people at all.
- 18:58Speaker 1: That doctors and medical stud and other resurrectionists were like,
- 19:02Speaker 1: it's fine, this is a completely acceptable thing to do.
- 19:06Speaker 1: Absolu fuckingately fuck off. Anyway, when it came to body snatching,
- 19:13Speaker 1: the idea was the fresher the better, because at that
- 19:17Speaker 1: point they didn't have any kind of way to preserve
- 19:20Speaker 1: an entire body, like there just wasn't an option for them,
- 19:24Speaker 1: so again, they really needed them fresh before decomposition sets in. Luckily,
- 19:30Speaker 1: for the medical students, by the time winter rolls around,
- 19:34Speaker 1: nicking the corpses is pretty easy because as long as
- 19:38Speaker 1: you're good at digging through cold, icy ground, because as
- 19:41Speaker 1: we know, colder temperatures keeps things preserved longer, which means
- 19:45Speaker 1: a slower way of decomposition. That being said, the winter
- 19:51Speaker 1: of seventeen eighty seven leading into seventeen eighty eight, the
- 19:56Speaker 1: medical students start really kicking the arse out of it
- 19:58Speaker 1: and they start plundering a fuck ton more like they're
- 20:03Speaker 1: stealing so many bodies from the Black Graveyard that they're
- 20:07Speaker 1: being noticed at one point, a group of freedmen catch
- 20:12Speaker 1: them stealing bodies from the Black Cemetery and they're like,
- 20:17Speaker 1: fuck this for a game of soldiers. This isn't on who.
- 20:21Speaker 1: On the third of September seventeen eighty eight, petition the
- 20:24Speaker 1: Common Council to basically do something about it. So they
- 20:28Speaker 1: complain that young gentlemen in this city who call themselves
- 20:32Speaker 1: students of the physic under cover of night, in the
- 20:36Speaker 1: most wanton sallies of excess di cup bodies of our
- 20:39Speaker 1: deceased friends and relatives of your petitioners carrying them away
- 20:43Speaker 1: without respect for age or sex. What's interesting is they're
- 20:48Speaker 1: not actually asking the Council to stop the body snatching
- 20:52Speaker 1: and the grave robin. All they're doing is asking that
- 20:55Speaker 1: it's done with like some level of respect and dignity.
- 21:00Speaker 1: What ethical and righteous action does the council do? Do
- 21:05Speaker 1: they station people at the graveyards to stop the robbing
- 21:08Speaker 1: from happening.
- 21:10Speaker 3: Do they organize the way.
- 21:11Speaker 1: In which the bodies can be exhumed with dignity? Do
- 21:15Speaker 1: they give the physicians and the doctors are we slap
- 21:17Speaker 1: on the wrist? No, they do, sweet fuck all, not
- 21:21Speaker 1: a drop nothing. They just ignore it, because what does
- 21:25Speaker 1: it matter if they're dissecting the bodies of the poor
- 21:29Speaker 1: and the disenfranchised.
- 21:31Speaker 3: That's m mm hmm mm hmm.
- 21:37Speaker 1: It's not until eighteen days later, when it's reported that
- 21:40Speaker 1: a body of a white woman is stolen from the
- 21:42Speaker 1: Trinity churchyard that any sort of grumblings in the general
- 21:47Speaker 1: populace begin. There are a few variations on how the
- 21:53Speaker 1: riots actually started, most of which revolve around a group
- 21:58Speaker 1: of boys playing at the New New York City Hospital.
- 22:02Speaker 1: In one version, one of the boys is dared to
- 22:05Speaker 1: climb up a ladder and look in the window, and
- 22:08Speaker 1: lis being boys and having to prove that he is
- 22:11Speaker 1: not afraid, He climbs the ladder, pokes his head in
- 22:16Speaker 1: the open window of the dissection room, and a surgeon
- 22:19Speaker 1: just waves a severed arm adam. In another version, the
- 22:24Speaker 1: boys are playing outside and they literally see a severed
- 22:28Speaker 1: arm just hanging out the window. In the most popular version,
- 22:33Speaker 1: the group of young boys they're playing outside the New
- 22:35Speaker 1: York Hospital. The surgeon's inside, the windows are open and
- 22:41Speaker 1: he can hear them playing, and he's just getting pissed off,
- 22:44Speaker 1: and he goes, fuck this for a game of soldiers.
- 22:48Speaker 1: I'm gonna annoy them because they've annoyed me, And so
- 22:52Speaker 1: he picks up a severed arm. He waves the arm
- 22:54Speaker 1: hand and all at the boys and yells at them,
- 22:59Speaker 1: saying that it belongs to one of their mothers. And
- 23:02Speaker 1: like in another area, in another time, this could have
- 23:06Speaker 1: just been like a your mamma kind a joke, and
- 23:09Speaker 1: where the surgeon thought this was just like a funny
- 23:12Speaker 1: thing to do or whatever. One of the boys had
- 23:15Speaker 1: actually lost his mother recently, and so he is incredibly
- 23:21Speaker 1: upset because he is convinced. This young boy believes that
- 23:25Speaker 1: this surgeon has just waved the mutilated corpse of his
- 23:29Speaker 1: mother at him. So this kid, he is sobbing and bawling.
- 23:33Speaker 1: He's really fucking upset, and he legs it home. He
- 23:37Speaker 1: runs all the way back to his dad. The boy
- 23:39Speaker 1: gets home and he is clearly distraught, and through sobs,
- 23:44Speaker 1: the young boy tells his father that the doctor waved
- 23:47Speaker 1: his dead mother's arm at him. So the dad grabs
- 23:51Speaker 1: a shovel and fucking legs it down to his late
- 23:54Speaker 1: wife's grave and starts digging the exume the coffin and
- 23:59Speaker 1: in say they find sweet fuck all his wife's body.
- 24:04Speaker 1: As he suspected his late wife's body is missing. It's
- 24:10Speaker 1: fucking missing. So he is past stately fucking livid. But
- 24:17Speaker 1: he wasn't the only one who was mad. Most New
- 24:19Speaker 1: Yorkers were not super into having you know, the graves
- 24:23Speaker 1: and bodies of their loved ones desecrated, decimated, and dissected.
- 24:29Speaker 1: This dude is so mad. This widower was out for blood.
- 24:33Speaker 1: He wanted revenge, and he proposed that they stormed the
- 24:38Speaker 1: actual hospital. Luckily for him, there were more than enough
- 24:42Speaker 1: volunteers who were just sick and tired of having you know,
- 24:45Speaker 1: bodies of their loved ones stolen, and soon enough, hundreds
- 24:50Speaker 1: of people were marching towards the hospital. When they get
- 24:54Speaker 1: to the hospital, a lot of the doctors and physicians
- 24:57Speaker 1: and anatomists, they fucking panic. Quite a lot of the
- 25:02Speaker 1: physicians freak out and try to flee, generally on foot.
- 25:07Speaker 1: One guy is so scared that he literally climbs inside
- 25:12Speaker 1: a chimney, which is, I don't need to tell you,
- 25:15Speaker 1: is not a good idea. Don't climb inside chimneys. No,
- 25:20Speaker 1: the mob breaks into and occupies the hospital. So the
- 25:25Speaker 1: mob occupying the hospital, and they just start breaking shit.
- 25:30Speaker 1: They are ransacking rooms, they're smashing specimen jars. And this
- 25:36Speaker 1: is even before they get the proper anatomy room. Because
- 25:41Speaker 1: when they reach the anatomy room, that is when the
- 25:44Speaker 1: mob mentality really starts to bubble over, because this is
- 25:49Speaker 1: where the shit hits the fan, because when they enter,
- 25:53Speaker 1: because when they get into that room and they see
- 25:56Speaker 1: what's in there, they're so angry and repulsed and revulsed
- 26:02Speaker 1: and just.
- 26:03Speaker 3: All of it, all of the ick.
- 26:06Speaker 1: Because in this room, in this room, there were three bodies,
- 26:10Speaker 1: two that were sort of mid dissection and one that
- 26:13Speaker 1: was boiling in a kettle. Because there was both a
- 26:17Speaker 1: female and a male body being dissected. Everything was on show.
- 26:23Speaker 1: And this especially coming face to face with corpses pinned
- 26:28Speaker 1: and pool the genitalia, really really did not sit well
- 26:33Speaker 1: for these guys. Most of the doctors and medical students
- 26:37Speaker 1: they had already fled. They had fucked it off. However,
- 26:41Speaker 1: some had stayed, the purpose of which was to protect
- 26:44Speaker 1: like the pathological and anatomical specimens, like it was a
- 26:49Speaker 1: really really valuable collection at the time. They tried to
- 26:52Speaker 1: protect them. They did not succeed because with everything else
- 26:57Speaker 1: that they had seen and everything else that was going
- 26:59Speaker 1: on this. This mob were fucking rabid. They were dragging
- 27:06Speaker 1: specimens out into the street and setting them on fire.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Dr Richard Bailey and his assistant protochet student right.
- 27:17Speaker 3: Post, that is his name.
- 27:20Speaker 1: His name is right Post w rght. That kind of write,
- 27:25Speaker 1: not as in write a letter or doing the right thing.
- 27:30Speaker 1: So they had stayed to protect.
- 27:31Speaker 3: All the stuff.
- 27:32Speaker 1: And the mob was obviously very mad at the people
- 27:35Speaker 1: who were in charge of this whole thing, which would
- 27:38Speaker 1: be Bailey and who they would have seen as his
- 27:40Speaker 1: second in command, which is Post. So the mob were
- 27:43Speaker 1: almost baying for blood at this point, very very close
- 27:47Speaker 1: to attacking, and they were in quite a bit of danger.
- 27:52Speaker 1: So Bailey in Post, they were in what you might call,
- 27:56Speaker 1: you know, mortal peril. And if it was for the
- 28:00Speaker 1: arrival of the New York Mayor and sheriff, both the surgeon,
- 28:05Speaker 1: both the surgeon, both the surgeon and his protege could
- 28:09Speaker 1: have been toasted.
- 28:11Speaker 3: So to make sure that they were not added to
- 28:14Speaker 3: the literal pore, Mayor James Dwayne ordered the old doctors, physicians, surgeons,
- 28:20Speaker 3: medical students.
- 28:22Speaker 1: All be escorted to the jail for their own protection,
- 28:26Speaker 1: like they had to get locked up because it was
- 28:29Speaker 1: the only safe space for them. So like he probably thought, yeah,
- 28:33Speaker 1: let's put them in the prison for their own protection,
- 28:36Speaker 1: you know, keep them there overnight. It's really secure, and
- 28:39Speaker 1: by morning the mob won't be paying for blood anymore.
- 28:42Speaker 1: They'll have calmed down, they've had their way bits, they'll
- 28:45Speaker 1: be chilling out. Needless to say, that did not quite
- 28:49Speaker 1: go to plan, because instead of the rage, you know,
- 28:53Speaker 1: dwindling down, dyeing out, the crowds dispersing. Instead of that,
- 29:00Speaker 1: instead of blowing over, the mob's fury was burning brighter
- 29:03Speaker 1: than ever.
- 29:04Speaker 3: By the next morning, this mob.
- 29:07Speaker 1: Starts running around New York City looking for doctors, physicians,
- 29:12Speaker 1: medical students, anyone that they deem to be guilty, either
- 29:17Speaker 1: by their own actions or by association of the mutilation
- 29:21Speaker 1: of the corpses of the people of New York City.
- 29:26Speaker 1: Literally hundreds of people descend on Columbia College, and as
- 29:34Speaker 1: they surround the building their numbers grow, their mass gets massive.
- 29:40Speaker 1: There are thousands of people, thousands of really fucking angry people.
- 29:47Speaker 1: Their blood is boiling and they are out for blood.
- 29:52Speaker 1: The longer the crowd waits, the angrier they become. And
- 29:58Speaker 1: who shows up none other than former student of Columbia College,
- 30:04Speaker 1: Alexander Hamilton.
- 30:07Speaker 10: Alexander Hamilton, his name was Alexander Hamilton. There's a million
- 30:14Speaker 10: things he hasn't done, like stop this mob. Stop this mob.
- 30:20Speaker 1: So he's there on the steps outside this college and
- 30:26Speaker 1: he is begging the crowd to just disperse, to just
- 30:30Speaker 1: go home, to not destroy the building. He's like, this
- 30:34Speaker 1: is a place for learning, Please don't tear it to
- 30:36Speaker 1: the fucking ground, because that's just not cool. And paraphrasing obviously,
- 30:41Speaker 1: but you know, you get the gist. And even Broadway's
- 30:44Speaker 1: favorite rapper could.
- 30:45Speaker 3: Not get this crowd to chill the fuck out. They
- 30:49Speaker 3: end up pushing past him, shoving him out the way,
- 30:53Speaker 3: and making their way in anyway.
- 30:56Speaker 1: So they burst through the doors and they start fucking
- 30:59Speaker 1: Scooby doing the place out. They are running around and
- 31:02Speaker 1: they are searching for bodies. They are convinced that they
- 31:06Speaker 1: are going to be like a fuck ton of bodies
- 31:09Speaker 1: in various states of decay and dismemberment, just sort of
- 31:13Speaker 1: lying around the place. And they're like bursting into rooms
- 31:17Speaker 1: they're searching, like the Atomical Theater, the Chapel Museum, the library,
- 31:25Speaker 1: and they even go into the student's bedroom, because they are.
- 31:28Speaker 3: Desperate to find something, some sign.
- 31:32Speaker 1: Of the crime that they believe to be committed, well
- 31:35Speaker 1: more like the crime they actually know was committed. But
- 31:37Speaker 1: unluckily for them and luckily for all those fucking students
- 31:40Speaker 1: who who were clever enough to actually remove any and
- 31:45Speaker 1: all of the bodies from the building the previous night.
- 31:49Speaker 1: Upon finding absolutely zero human remains in the facility, they
- 31:54Speaker 1: decide they're going to search all the doctors' homes. So
- 31:57Speaker 1: they go back out on the street and they're effectively
- 32:00Speaker 1: rioting again. They are going into they're ransacking all of
- 32:05Speaker 1: these physicians' houses like they are digging through shit.
- 32:09Speaker 3: They are looking for.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Specimens, bodies, anything that closely resembles what could be a
- 32:14Speaker 1: human corpse or appendage. After finding absolutely zilch Diddley squat,
- 32:22Speaker 1: they turn around and they head straight for the jail.
- 32:27Speaker 1: This angry mob marches right down. So this angry mob
- 32:32Speaker 1: is marching right down to the jail. So this angry
- 32:36Speaker 1: mob marches right down Broadway and to the jail itself,
- 32:41Speaker 1: where a bunch of quite important politicians, including Mayor Dwain
- 32:46Speaker 1: and the Governor of New York George Clinton, try to
- 32:51Speaker 1: convince the crowd to just go to leave them alone.
- 32:55Speaker 3: And not do shit.
- 32:57Speaker 1: Are desperately trying to make the crowd calm the fuck
- 33:02Speaker 1: down and bugger offs. Now, I'm sure you can tell
- 33:13Speaker 1: that with the previous interactions that we've had with this
- 33:16Speaker 1: particular group of people, that.
- 33:18Speaker 3: That that is probably not going to be on the cards.
- 33:21Speaker 3: The mob straight up refuses to go, and kids bigger
- 33:26Speaker 3: to There's.
- 33:26Speaker 1: Roughly five thousand of them, and this crowd starts picking
- 33:31Speaker 1: up random shit.
- 33:33Speaker 11: They've got rocks, they've got bricks. They literally tear apart
- 33:38Speaker 11: the gallows. The gallows, the actual structure from which you
- 33:43Speaker 11: hang someone. They tore that apart.
- 33:46Speaker 1: They rip a fucked on a wood off of that,
- 33:49Speaker 1: bits of bricks, bits of stone, stuff that stuck together,
- 33:52Speaker 1: anything they can get their hands on, and they just.
- 33:55Speaker 3: Start lugging it at them. They start attacking the jail.
- 34:00Speaker 1: They're throwing rocks, fucking whacking people with big fucking hunks
- 34:05Speaker 1: of wood, and they're like making demands and shouting shit
- 34:09Speaker 1: like bring out your doctors, we want the doctors ag
- 34:14Speaker 1: and boom.
- 34:14Speaker 3: And other shit. This is a full scale riot.
- 34:19Speaker 12: Windows are being smashed, Projectiles are coming in from all angles.
- 34:24Speaker 12: Inside the jail medical students are acting like this is
- 34:27Speaker 12: a game of deadly dodgeball.
- 34:30Speaker 3: They've got bricks and rocks coming at them and they're
- 34:32Speaker 3: picking them up and.
- 34:32Speaker 1: Fucking lugging them back, like defending themselves. They are climbing
- 34:38Speaker 1: over broken glass from the windows. They're trying to escape,
- 34:41Speaker 1: they're trying to fight back. It's it's not looking good
- 34:44Speaker 1: for them. One of the rioters actually makes it inside,
- 34:49Speaker 1: but once he gets.
- 34:49Speaker 3: Through the broken window, a card just fucking kills them.
- 34:53Speaker 1: He's like, nope, naturally, this did not improve the mood
- 34:58Speaker 1: of the rest of the rioters. It kind of, you know,
- 35:01Speaker 1: made them worse, because of course it does, because this
- 35:05Speaker 1: situation is just getting worse and fucking worse. The governor
- 35:08Speaker 1: calls in the militiamen, right, so, yeah, the militia had
- 35:12Speaker 1: been called in, but.
- 35:13Speaker 3: They were ordered not to fire.
- 35:15Speaker 1: They were told just to kind of be an ominous presence,
- 35:18Speaker 1: more like a warning, because you know, prevention is always
- 35:21Speaker 1: better than cure. See, that was fine up until John Jay,
- 35:25Speaker 1: the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, fucked in the head with
- 35:28Speaker 1: a rock. And then the Revolutionary War hero General Baron
- 35:33Speaker 1: Vaughan Steuben got woloved with a brick, and because you know,
- 35:38Speaker 1: politicians and heroes are getting fucking smacked and whacked, the
- 35:42Speaker 1: militia were absolutely like, fuck this for a game of
- 35:45Speaker 1: soldiers and just started firing upon the crowd. The militia
- 35:48Speaker 1: men's muskets were ready to go, so they opened fire
- 35:53Speaker 1: and then just more chaos enceres shooting, fighting, bludgeoning, chucking,
- 35:59Speaker 1: probably lots of physical brutality, resulting in at least three
- 36:04Speaker 1: rioters and three militia men losing their lives, but the
- 36:08Speaker 1: death toll was supposed to have reached twenty people because
- 36:12Speaker 1: a few of their mob were mortally wounded during the
- 36:14Speaker 1: riots and they didn't die till a couple days later,
- 36:18Speaker 1: and over the next few days, you know, it just
- 36:20Speaker 1: kind of calms down. This was due to a couple
- 36:25Speaker 1: of factors, one of which being that the armed militia
- 36:29Speaker 1: were actively patrolling the streets, the second being that people
- 36:33Speaker 1: of the city. The other being that people of the
- 36:36Speaker 1: city were going around and inspecting and protecting the graves
- 36:41Speaker 1: of their loved ones. You had some families taking it
- 36:45Speaker 1: in turns to go and inspect the graves of their
- 36:48Speaker 1: nearest and dearest, and some fellas decided to come together
- 36:53Speaker 1: and become dead guard men. So they were like this
- 36:57Speaker 1: armed group who took it.
- 36:58Speaker 3: Upon themselves to protect the cemeteries.
- 37:02Speaker 1: And while this was going on, the New York newspapers
- 37:05Speaker 1: completely stopped running ads for doctors, medical classes, anything sort
- 37:10Speaker 1: of medical related.
- 37:11Speaker 3: They were just like, we're just not going to put
- 37:13Speaker 3: that in. No advertisements for them. They just the best
- 37:18Speaker 3: not to. And with all this going on, a lot
- 37:20Speaker 3: of the.
- 37:21Speaker 1: Big wig physicians of the city had to publish these
- 37:24Speaker 1: notices saying that they had never robbed any graveyard in
- 37:28Speaker 1: the city and of course never asked anyone else to
- 37:32Speaker 1: perform such a heinous act.
- 37:35Speaker 3: And that's the thing, isn't it.
- 37:36Speaker 1: It's correct on a technicality because because both Potter's Field,
- 37:41Speaker 1: which was the Paupers Graveyard, and what was known as
- 37:44Speaker 1: the Negroes Burial.
- 37:45Speaker 3: Ground, they were outside, they were outside the city limits.
- 37:49Speaker 1: They were established officially outside the cities. So yeah, they
- 37:55Speaker 1: were correct and truthful on a fucking technicality. Or were
- 38:00Speaker 1: attempted against the medical students, but nothing ever stuck. And
- 38:05Speaker 1: then a grand jury investigates the riot, but there is literally.
- 38:09Speaker 3: No record of anyone being.
- 38:11Speaker 1: Convicted as a result of this, because there's a because
- 38:18Speaker 1: there's a grand jury that investigates the riot, but nobody
- 38:22Speaker 1: gets convicted, not a one. And even though none of
- 38:27Speaker 1: the students who are the physicians are charged. Like the
- 38:31Speaker 1: complete disdain and disrespect for doctors in New York.
- 38:36Speaker 13: Well, it lingered for a good way while you know,
- 38:40Speaker 13: years in fact, from the very next year, these anatomy
- 38:45Speaker 13: acts start being passed.
- 38:47Speaker 1: Now they're also known as bone bills, which I think
- 38:50Speaker 1: is a much cooler name, and I think that's how
- 38:52Speaker 1: we should refer to them. These bone bills are passed
- 38:54Speaker 1: to ensure that there was a legal supply of corpses
- 38:58Speaker 1: to the medical profession.
- 39:00Speaker 3: No more digging up dead bodies for doctors. I mean,
- 39:04Speaker 3: that's what they hoped for anyway.
- 39:07Speaker 14: In seventeen eighty nine, the New York legislature passed an
- 39:11Speaker 14: had to prevent the odious practice of digging up and
- 39:14Speaker 14: removing for the purpose of dissection, dead bodies interred in
- 39:18Speaker 14: cemeteries or burial places.
- 39:21Speaker 3: Basically, it bands.
- 39:23Speaker 1: Grave robbing as if it wasn't already like not a thing,
- 39:26Speaker 1: and legally.
- 39:27Speaker 3: Provides a supply of cadavers. Now, so this act not
- 39:32Speaker 3: only banned.
- 39:33Speaker 1: Grave robbing, but it also stated that they would be
- 39:36Speaker 1: allowed to dissect criminals who had been executed for murder,
- 39:40Speaker 1: arson or burglary because they could be sentenced to dissection
- 39:45Speaker 1: after death.
- 39:46Speaker 3: That was an option when sentencing.
- 39:48Speaker 1: It's like, it's like, listen to your motherfucker, I'm sentencing
- 39:53Speaker 1: you to dissection after death, meaning that if somehow scum
- 39:59Speaker 1: like you manages to make their way to the pearly
- 40:02Speaker 1: gates on judgment day, you're not going to get through
- 40:05Speaker 1: you because you're body going to be in bits, which
- 40:08Speaker 1: is I don't know, feels a wee bit petty, but
- 40:11Speaker 1: that's neither.
- 40:11Speaker 3: Here nor there now any theory.
- 40:15Speaker 1: This is a good idea, but again, too many doctors,
- 40:20Speaker 1: not enough bodies, And like do they expect doctors to
- 40:25Speaker 1: literally be lining up beside the gallows with a scalpel
- 40:28Speaker 1: in hand?
- 40:29Speaker 3: Like I'm ready?
- 40:31Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like that's like a wee bit
- 40:33Speaker 1: traumatizing for the people about to meet their maker. Imagine
- 40:36Speaker 1: being sentenced to death and you're on the gallows, they're
- 40:40Speaker 1: about to put like the noose around you, and what
- 40:43Speaker 1: do you see but a bunch of fucking doctors lining
- 40:46Speaker 1: up with a.
- 40:46Speaker 4: Scalpel in hand, ready to fight each other so they
- 40:49Speaker 4: can cut up your body when they're done, like ready
- 40:53Speaker 4: to fight each other, so that ready to fight each other,
- 40:56Speaker 4: so that they are nerdy to fight each other for.
- 40:59Speaker 1: The opportunity to to cut up your corps after a
- 41:02Speaker 1: short drop and a sudden stop like that feels unnecessarily
- 41:07Speaker 1: traumatizing because I'm feeling if you stole a wee bit
- 41:09Speaker 1: of gold or you burnt down a barn or something,
- 41:13Speaker 1: I feel like a bit harsh, but anyway, needless.
- 41:18Speaker 3: So yeah, well this was great in theory.
- 41:21Speaker 1: Back in the land of reality, there's still not enough
- 41:24Speaker 1: bodies to go round.
- 41:26Speaker 3: It's all supply and demand, and.
- 41:29Speaker 1: At this point most places just turned to resurrectionists, like
- 41:32Speaker 1: they would not go down to the graves themselves to do.
- 41:34Speaker 3: It anymore, Like it wasn't worth the risk. So they
- 41:37Speaker 3: needed the bodies, but they had.
- 41:39Speaker 1: To be careful about it. Basically everybody starts paying resurrectionists.
- 41:44Speaker 1: They were at least trying to be discreet, you know.
- 41:47Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Scandals related to dissecting bodies and
- 41:52Speaker 1: grave robbing. They continued up until like the twentieth century
- 41:57Speaker 1: before they sort of disappeared into the ether because like
- 42:00Speaker 1: at one point, because it got to the point where
- 42:02Speaker 1: people just started donating their bodies to medical science, and
- 42:05Speaker 1: there was so much people already knew because of the
- 42:08Speaker 1: previous dissections and stuff, so they weren't really needed as much.
- 42:12Speaker 3: The supply the demand was much lower, you know.
- 42:16Speaker 1: So the billbones weren't the only things to come out
- 42:18Speaker 1: of the doctor's riots in the States, because they also
- 42:22Speaker 1: led to the earliest medical licensing system in the colonies,
- 42:27Speaker 1: meaning that if you wanted to be a doctor, then
- 42:30Speaker 1: you had to get an apprenticeship with a respected physician
- 42:33Speaker 1: or attend two years of medical school. On top of this,
- 42:37Speaker 1: you had to pass this rigorous government exam, meaning that
- 42:42Speaker 1: you couldn't just go to a school for a couple
- 42:44Speaker 1: of years and be like, I'm a doctor now.
- 42:46Speaker 3: You had to actually pass an exam.
- 42:48Speaker 1: Because you didn't have to do that before. There was
- 42:51Speaker 1: no real criteria other than learn some shit and then
- 42:55Speaker 1: put up your zign. And as a general rule, I
- 42:57Speaker 1: feel like if anyone's going to be practicing mid in,
- 43:00Speaker 1: being able to pass an exam about practicing medicine is
- 43:05Speaker 1: generally a good idea that my friends was the seventeen
- 43:09Speaker 1: eighty eight Doctor's Riot. What have we learned today? We
- 43:15Speaker 1: learned that being a doctor in the eighteenth century was.
- 43:18Speaker 3: Pretty fucking easy if you had enough money to do so.
- 43:22Speaker 1: We also learned that pranks are not cool, and that
- 43:26Speaker 1: waving severed appendages to small children.
- 43:29Speaker 3: Generally not a good idea. I feel like these are
- 43:33Speaker 3: standard things we should know.
- 43:34Speaker 1: But we also learned that even though modern medicine isn't
- 43:38Speaker 1: exactly perfect, it's definitely a lot better than it was
- 43:43Speaker 1: in the eighteenth century.
- 43:46Speaker 3: You know what?
- 43:46Speaker 1: After that, I definitely think it's recommendation time. So for reading,
- 43:51Speaker 1: I'm gonna recommend Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front, an
- 43:56Speaker 1: untold story of World War Two by Sergei Plotchi. I
- 44:00Speaker 1: feel like I've pronounced that name wrong, but I'm sure
- 44:02Speaker 1: someone will be able to correct me at some point,
- 44:04Speaker 1: So read that. For watching, I am going to recommend
- 44:08Speaker 1: what About Watch recently for watching, Flight Attendant season two
- 44:12Speaker 1: is out. I love Crailey Coco. She's so awesome, and
- 44:18Speaker 1: I love her weird seventies hair. I just a vibe
- 44:21Speaker 1: with it, you know. I also like an interesting plot
- 44:25Speaker 1: tist with it. I also like TV shows that have
- 44:28Speaker 1: flaweds also quite a fan of TV shows that have
- 44:31Speaker 1: flawed central characters. And for listening, I've been listening to
- 44:36Speaker 1: the podcast Art of History by Amanda Matta. The latest episode,
- 44:41Speaker 1: The Man in His Muse. Absolutely loved it, so if
- 44:44Speaker 1: you're into that sort of thing, go check it out.
- 44:47Speaker 1: And before I go, if you enjoyed this episode of
- 44:50Speaker 1: the podcast, feel free to rate and review five stars
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- 45:02Speaker 1: can catch me on all the socials Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, everything.
- 45:08Speaker 3: Links are on the description down below. And with that,
- 45:11Speaker 3: I shall bid you adieu adieu, and with that I
- 45:18Speaker 3: shall take my leave of you.
- 45:20Speaker 1: Ideos or re wir of wo is them my friends
- 45:24Speaker 1: a bye bye