Landscape and Murder in the Mississippi Delta | The MeatEater Podcast Ep. 763

Описание: Steven Rinella talks with author Wright Thompson.

Topics discussed: Grab a copy of Wright's book, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi; the history of a patch of ground; the Mississippi Delta as manmade land; the murder of Emmett Till; cotton; the sharecropper system; always referring to "The War"; what it means to be Southern; the connection between Chicago and Mississippi; learning history to know it; the existential trauma of having so much wilderness erased; and more. 

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction: Wright Thompson & The Barn
02:49 - From Sports Writing to Dark History
13:04 - The Murder of Emmett Till
21:12 - The Land Tells Stories People Won't
27:44 - Where History Gets Buried
34:07 - American Land as Colonial Outpost
42:21 - When Cotton Was King
50:13 - The Economics of Sharecropping
58:18 - Why People Lie But Land Doesn't
1:08:04 - The Duality of Southern Identity
1:17:16 - How Violence Shapes Communities
1:27:00 - War Heroes and Moral Complexity
1:42:00 - Teaching History vs. Rewriting It
1:53:02 - The Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
2:00:06 - Mysteries Still Hidden in Wilderness