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Podcast: Exploding Brooklyn
Episode: Escaped Smallpox Patient Walks New York City Like The Kid From The Family Circus, Racist Jury But Not Judge, What Is Jute?
Description: Michael Burns, Escaped Smallpox PatientA Jury of Black People Is Called By The Court But Rejected By The DefendantThe Jute Mill: What Is Jute?Child Labor in Greenpoint, 1904The American Manufacturing CompanyThe Tugboat John Ansonfeaturing: burlap; Labor Strike; Child Labor; Call the Darkness Light by Nancy Zaroulis; The American Manufacturing Company; tugboat John Anson; the health wagon; The Wilson Bill; Flood's Lot.Exploding Brooklyn focuses on North Brooklyn's industrial history in Greenpoint and Williamsburg on Newtown Creek; and the people who lived and died amidst industrial mayhem...