{"podcast":{"title":"Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise","slug":"reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212","podcast_index_feed_id":7826212,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/cf/3b/81/49/cf3b8149-1c21-49b6-9e2a-a444c440d892/c8aa9008431c9319bf3eb67bdfcc33032adeaddf3f3853d7c5b3b656e42096d2cca36a90fddd0ef410aa075a6aada8993ea5a6d925f9d9d99d5bdf0a054bc762.jpeg","author":"Higher Ground Audio","episode_count":10,"summary":"Reconstruction begins where, for most Americans, the story of the Civil War ends: The North is victorious and slavery is abolished. But what happened next was one of the most important decades in American history, a moment when our country grappled with its original sin and imagined — and briefly enacted — a more perfect union. Drawing from archives, letters, diaries, court records, eyewitness testimonies and some of America’s most accomplished scholars and storytellers, Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise explores this unprecedented historical moment in rich, kaleidoscopic detail. The series unpacks a time when a determined band of reformers attempted to radically reimagine American society — from the Constitution to the roots of its economy to the very nature of citizenship itself. Reconstruction was a time when Americans struggled over fundamental questions about our country. Who gets to be a citizen? Who has the right to vote? Who can own property? In short, who belongs? Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise explores what America might have looked like if Reconstruction had truly succeeded, and how the ultimate backlash to Reconstruction prevented our country from becoming…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T16:17:04.390501+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212"},"episode":{"title":"The Betrayal of Frederick Douglass","slug":"the-betrayal-of-frederick-douglass","published_at":"2026-07-02T07:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212/the-betrayal-of-frederick-douglass","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212","url":"https://clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1334/rss.art19.com/episodes/78e1448c-f4a9-49be-b789-8b2ea545d1cc.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1334/rss.art19.com/episodes/78e1448c-f4a9-49be-b789-8b2ea545d1cc.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"In 1874, with emancipation and Black citizenship finally written into the Constitution, Frederick Douglass set his sights on the next frontier of freedom: economic self-reliance. But in this pursuit, he was ensnared in a disastrous financial fraud by trusted white allies. Kai Wright shares the story of this scandal that handed Douglass’ enemies prime ammunition against interracial democracy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .","meta_description":"In 1874, with emancipation and Black citizenship finally written into the Constitution, Frederick Douglass set his sights on the next frontier of freedom:…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2539,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212/episodes/the-betrayal-of-frederick-douglass/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212/the-betrayal-of-frederick-douglass.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}