The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 277 - The Acadians

Episode Date: June 26, 2017

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine The Acadians. SOURCESTOUR DATES REDBUBBLE MERCH

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week I already tired. Shirt wearer. Okay. Mustache grower. Excuse me. Man with eyes. Pardon? Dave Anthony reads a story from American history to my friend. Gareth Reynolds who has no idea what the topic is going to be about. Apparently doesn't have eyes. Huh? You didn't say you had eyes. What does that mean? I said man with eyes for my own description. Well I don't say a lot of the things that you say because they're not abnormal qualities that should be boasted about. They're just regular things. You've bragged about taking out the garbage. That's very valiant. Everybody does that. That's chivalry. It's not chivalry. It's a thing

we do. You. You have a cat, right? Yeah. And you empty its litter box. You take out the garbage in your house. Yes. That's chivalry. Okay. Well look as long as I'm included I guess it's cool. I just saw you fighting with your cat and it's very disturbing. Well look we you know I mean we have a very... Look nothing. God do you want to look who to do? I'll do one bottle. People say this is funny. Not Gary Gera. Dave, okay. Someone or something is tickling people. Is it for fun? And this is not going to become a tickly quad cat. Okay. You are Queen Fakie of made-up town. All hail Queen Shit of Liesville. A bunch of religious virgins go to mingle. And do

what? Pray. Hi, Gary. No. Is he dead, my friend? No. No. 1604. Geez. Whoa. Turning back the clock. What's with the explosions? The Dodger's one. No, that was over ages ago. Oh, we don't stop celebrating around here. King Henry IV of France granted the first charter for the country of Acadia, Canada. Okay. And other lands in New France. Okay. It was a ten-year fur trade monopoly given to Pierre du Guat, who was a friend of the king and a soldier. Okay. Protestant noblemen were also on board because they thought it would quote solidify their friendship already begun with the Micmac Indians. Okay.

Teach the savages Christian principles. Okay. Can I start? When can I start flagging? Can I start now? Is it too early to throw a flag? And quash English claims to the region. Okay. I've got some flags to throw. While take nothing from the coffers of his majesty. Okay. All right. So it's a France move. If I can just say common and hot. Yeah. Spicy. He has notes. Yeah. Somebody's got notes. In the summer of 1605, Pierre sailed into the Bay of Fundy located between Fundy. Fundy. It's time for me to make our native Americans Christian. This will be easy. It's located between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, east of Maine in an

area known as Acadia. Acadia. The Micmac supported a small group of French settlers during the first winters. So then they were they were like, hey, you guys are here. We're here. Let's work it out. Totally down with the program Native Americans are like, all right, well, you're here. Yeah, we're not gonna let you die. Right. So they help them out. Yeah. You know, I it is always it's like they say nice guys finished last. Yeah. Nice cultures get killed. Yeah. They trade and it's normally by a certain race and I would never call out which one it is. But there's a color. I'm gonna say what there's a color. There's a color. They

traded food for weapons and tools. Some French merchants and the Hatter's Corporation of Paris started protesting the fur trade monopoly. The Hatter's Corporation of Paris. The Hatter's being I think they're time I'm making hats out of him. What is it with hats? I mean, honestly, they're hats. Look, hats. We didn't know this when we started out on this journey. Hats are probably the most important thing. It's just crazy. It's everywhere in our history. Beaver hats. So they started protesting the monopoly that he had set up. And then Henry the fourth abruptly revoked the chartered 1607. Okay, it's revoked. So he bails. Yeah.

There's no more monopoly. Okay. This caused the navigator of the trip, Samuel de Champlain, to then claim a site which would become Quebec instead. So he ups and fucking bails. Okay. He's like, I'm not hanging Acadia if you're gonna fucking fuck up our monopoly and he ups and takes off. So he just goes to Quebec and claims it. Yeah. Okay. He left Acadia quote orphaned with the settlers there. So he just bails on the settlers. It was about 40 families at this point. Oh my god. Many of the original settlers of Acadia were Catholics. Okay. They were from villages in a large marshland in Western France and they were quote

convinced that equipped only with an ox, a tiny spade, a pitchfork, they could exclude the world's highest tides from the Bay of Fundy to farm on the land. Does this a riddle? So if I recall correctly, the Bay of Fundy has like super high tides. If I from my from my old, you know, when I studied the earth. So I'm not the only one who's familiar with the Bay of Funding. Yeah. Is it called the Bay of Fundy? Yeah. I think or it's fundy fundy. So they thought that they could change it into farmland. During the 1640s and 50s, the Acadian colonists drained the marshes and built dykes or levees to keep the seawater out. Okay. So your

point about the tides and your point about the what they're what they're doing right now to prevent the seawater. We don't know. You don't know where it's going to go. Is what I'm going to call a two flag puzzle. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn't. They used. So they really they I mean they they are David taking on Goliath as far as nature and odds go. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy what they're doing. I mean, they're like, look, we have a wreck, two potatoes, one ox. How could this not go right? Let's stop the water. What we need to do is try to make the potato fucks a cow. Then we get all the food. I think I think Larry is we would

make not listen. We make cheesy fries. Put in. We just get that potato to bang the cow. Yeah. Whoo. You know what? How long since you eat? It's a long time since I've eaten. But I have been having sex with the cow. Okay. Let's put him in the log. Sorry. In the log. Where? Yeah. Okay. In the log. Yeah. They used hauled out logs for draining fresh water out with a tin to clapper valve at the end. So they did use the tin clapper. Yeah. Okay. To allow water to drain out. But then it would snap shut when the tide came up and went the other way. So they've created this device where they hollow out a log and they put a little a metal valve on the

end. Okay. So when so when water so water flows out which they want. Right. Right. And then when the salt water comes back in because it's going the opposite direction it snaps the thing shut. Wow. And water. Super fucking smart. Crazy smart. Good Lord. Can you imagine in that time if a dude showed you that? Yeah. Yeah. Honestly. Yeah. I mean you'd just be like huh. So you got a really good brain huh. Can you help me put on my pants. A naked guy. I got a new science project for you. Get my pants from wherever they are and put them on me. So they built 10 foot high levy walls. Eventually they built 17 and a half miles of dykes with more

than 30 drainage systems. Lord. Even though it was illegal by according to both French and British law governments the colony of Acadia traded with merchants in Boston in the 1600s. Okay. The Cadians were also friendly with the McMack tribe training and even marrying some of them. Whoa. So they started to start intermarrying. That's pretty progressive. Yeah. No totally. In 1699 the French army commander in Acadia wrote that the colonists were quote very productive yielding each year a quantity of wheat, rye, peas and oats not only for the maintenance of families living there but for sale and

transportation to other parts of the country. It's working. Yeah they're fucking killing it. But the ease with which the Acadians construct their levies makes them lazy. If the people were as industrious as the Canadians they would in short time be very well off but the majority work only when it is absolutely necessary. That's being said about who? The Acadians. Okay. So what what he's saying is that they built the levies and now they're like we're good. Yeah but they're like we're good. We're gonna spend, now we're gonna spend our time enjoying life and this guy's like how come I'm not working all the time?

That's, it's like there's an American here now. Who's wrong? Yeah he's fucking wrong. This is why America's fucked because they're like why aren't you working 24-7? I don't see your hands bleeding yet. This solves the problem. What else do you want from us? We are the only culture that got a potato to have intercourse with cows. Oh god. Back in the log. Huh? Back in the log. I'll go back but I'm not wrong. Log. I'll get in my log because I want to be in such a log. Okay. I mean such a log. As British and French fought over parts of North America propaganda began to spread. Since the French had been fighting with

Native Americans against the British. Okay. It was assumed the Acadian were working with the Native Americans. Right? So it's, it's my friend's friend is an enemy kind of bullshit. Okay. Right. So. But, but they're with the Mic Mac. They're there with the Mic Macs fighting. Yeah but they're not. So, so the basic idea is since Native Americans in different parts of North America are fighting with the French. Right. Against the British. So they just colonists and British just assume well they're all fighting instead of realizing they're different tribes and they're doing different things. Right. And then they by

association say the Acadians are part of that. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. In 1706 Governor Dudley of Massachusetts was implicated in illegal fur trading with the Acadians. Okay. So he's fucking looks like he's swapping out some bad furs. Right. That's what that's what the accusation is. He's not supposed to trade with them. Okay. It's like an arms deal but first. Yeah. It's fresh. The Colonies Council accused him of quote trade that put knives into the hands of those barbarous infidels to cut the throats of our wives and children. So they're not thinking good things about the Acadians. Right. At this point. In

the end. Also don't you pine for the days when we were like people will have knives. Yeah. Yeah. We need knife control. In the end the governor was exonerated but the Acadian fur trade scandal became the topic of rumor and innuendo in Boston. A British traveler wrote the Acadians are the most innocent and virtuous people whom I've ever known or heard tell of in any history. They live in a state of perfect equality with that distinction of rank in society. They are content with the simple mode of life which they easily derive from the cultivation of their lands. They had no interest for loans of money or other

property. They man their own clothing and were fond of black and red stripes down the leg. Weird. Bunches of ribbons and long. Okay. We're good on the. Don't don't oversell. Don't talk fast. I was talking with you but then you got. Don't talk fast to close pal. You had to say hello on this one. Let's just. Come on. They're great. They dress like freaks. They have capes. They use imaginary guns. The men worked hard in planting and at harvest time and the season when the levees were made to be made a repair. They were almost all entirely illiterate. They seemed always cheerful and lighthearted and on every occasion were unanimous. If any

disputes arose in their transactions they always submitted it to arbitration. Should we read a book? No. No. Although I have seen cases of mutual reproach on returning from these decisions you seldom if ever discovered among them any thought of malice or vengeance. So these are the people we should strive to be. These are the people we should we should try to be. Right. So it'll be fine. But and Dave if memory serves we're not them today. Is that right? It seems not. Is that right? It seems. Well we'll see. Let's see how it plays out. I'm excited to figure this one out. In 1710 the Tory government in Britain sent a group to conquer

Acadia. It was led by Samuel Vetch a Scott adventurer who was involved in the trading scandal. So he was. Yeah. Oh you're bloody like these. No look. Nobody's got to know about your ferry. Come on. It's all right. It's just it's a secret between friends. They can't secret it. Come on Acadians. Come on now. Come on. It's a special Acadian in there. Get in here. Come on. He took possession of the town of Port Royal mine and renamed it Annapolis Royal. That's right. Minor tweak like a bar rescue. Yeah. You got to redo all your letter heads. Absolutely. Just a minor tweak. Three years later in 1713. I've got a marketing degree. After the war of

Spanish succession a treaty gave Great Britain the right to quote all Nova Scotia or Acadia. OK. That's kind of rude. In 1713. Are they supposed to be polite the English. Yeah. That's a bit full. What did they ever what did the British ever do anything bad. No. Yeah. In the 1713 treaty the Acadians were granted quote the liberty to remove themselves within a year to any other place. Oh what a luxury. That's the guy who hits on a girl at the bar is like I'm going to do you a favor and let you go out on a date with me. Get out. If any decided to stay they were to be subject to the this is like the sitcom plot where the dickhead comes in and

wants to open a mall where the family. Yeah basically. If any decided to stay they were to be subject to the Kingdom of Great Britain and to enjoy the free exercise of the religion as far as the laws of Great Britain allow the same. It's so amazing to say I allow you the freedoms that our laws will provide. I will allow you the freedom of doing what we say. You can now do what we've decided is right. That's freedom. That'll work won't it. These levies are going to have to come down. You won't get any seawater on your crops. Good Lord man. Surprised you've got so much cold. How are your food taste like shit.

Good Lord. You've got a mick mack here. You're supposed to be killing them you foolish foolish Acadians. What is happening. It's like there's a war happening. I think it's the Acadians. Do you really think that's not. Is that really Dodger Stadium. The game ended a long time. The game's got to be over. That's crazy. That's like a war zone. It might be a nuclear war or I guess it's not nuclear but you know it might be a bunch of weaponry. So the treaty left several major issues unresolved. OK. The territory sounds like much of a treaty. No it's not great for the Acadians. The territorial boundaries of Acadia were still disputed. The colony sat between

English and French forts. Questions remain so they're right in the middle of English and French for perfect questions remain about if the Acadians could sell their farms and buildings so they didn't even know. They're genuinely like do we get anything out of being well they didn't spell it out in the treaty. They were just like you got to go like no one took care of them and that the French didn't do shit as bad treatment. Samuel Vech wrote the Acadians should be removed to Cape Brenton to help that colony. A new French colony in Canada tried to lure the Acadians. A French governor. So they're just like a house

plant. Well they're like put them put them there. They'll help because of what they did with the land. They're sought after like other colonies like get them over here to help us like they're free agents. Yeah basically. So the French governor said that life under the British would be harsh and that they should leave or they would be treated like slaves. The Acadians felt they had the right to the land and had no desire to move. It's a weird attitude. And declared themselves neutral. There we go. That's a weird. What if we're like Switzerland. That is a weird. Yeah. It's a great attitude. But it's just again the problem

with war or force is the person or people who don't want to engage in it because of morality are the ones who get totally screwed over. Correct. So the idea that I mean that's the same thing we're saying about the Native Americans when you're when your attitude is like let's work it out with a mentality that's like let's get it all. Yeah. You know there's just the yeah. Nice guys finish last. It's almost like what's happening in America. Nice tribes finish last. None of this matter because the Acadians were not allowed guns from then on the Acadians were known as the neutral French. OK. The local Native tribe was

not down with the treaty. The Scotsman to come in and give that a punch. Right. A delegate from the Mac Mac Indians said to a British representative quote I have my land that I gave to no one and will never give. I know the limits and when someone wishes to live there he will pay. So there are Macs at that. OK. So they're right. They're like yeah. No this is my you can't give away the place I live in. Yes. I mean but Nova Scotia was a tough sell for new colonists. Many argued that having the Acadian stay there they would continue to improve the land. And some said the Acadians were a good buffer between the Indians like bees.

Well there yeah. I mean anybody who fucking works to improve land you're going to want it. Yeah. The whole is amazing. The whole idea is that it's just amazing to think like you're treating a group of people like their fertilizer. Well yeah but look the whole and I get it. The whole reason for colonies is because you're you're the England is becoming more urbanized so you need places to grow more crops. You know what else works. Replication. Well like doing what they're doing. What the Acadians. Yeah. Yeah but not everyone's good at it as as we've heard. Well yeah but you just I mean instead of just being like we've

got our super group just be like oh look they'll learn how to do a great society that just has no but they're not another and that's not what they don't care about that. They just care about the land and growing food again. They don't care that they're a great society. They could they could be slaughtering babies and they'd be like look at the wheat they're making like they don't give a shit. Well I feel like we're not far from that. So so some said the Acadians were a good buffer between the Indians and if they left the British would be unable to remain there. So the British had to move there. They kind of need the Acadians.

The Acadians are a levy in their own way. But Dave. Yeah. The Acadians are a bit of a a levy in their own. I got it. Okay. I think it's pretty good. But the land that the Acadians had turned into nice farmland was seen for what it was in 1720 the Nova Scotia British governor wrote of Acadia. This place might be made into the entire grain producers not only of this province but of the neighbor of the neighboring governments. A few months later the secretary for the English Lords of Trade wrote to the governor quote if the Acadians depart it will doubtless increase the power of France. This must not be. They must eventually be

transferred to some place where mingling with our subjects they will soon forget their language their religions and remembrance of the past and become true Englishmen. Oh that sounds beautiful. That's basically a cultural lobotomy. Yeah. I mean it's also not fucking possible. Yeah. It is also pie in the sky. But it is also like look if we treat them poorly enough they'll forget how to be good. Okay. For the moment we are too weak to undertake this deportation. Encourage them with any hopes you choose provided you obtain the desired end which is to prevent their departure. So lie. Yeah. Lie. Lie. Cheat.

Steal. Kill. Everybody's doing it. Killer Mike. Is that true? Yeah. In June of 1737 10 or 11 MacMax armed with guns hatchets and knives forced their way onto a British ship took 1500 pounds in goods then beached the ship. The captain of the ship begged the Acadian priest and 20 Acadians to help him find the Indian culprits. Okay. So a ship gets robbed. Yeah. And he wants the he wants the Acadians to help him solve the crime. Yeah. Okay. So the Acadians go along but quote seemed to joke and trifle with the Indians they met along the way. Great. From a distance. Yeah. They're just like they walk up to the Indians they talk in

their language and the guys like what's what do you guys. Is it just me or are they awful friendly. Very. They just do a handshake. Yes. They did just. They do. They went handshake low grab. Yeah. Pull back snap fist bump and then they brought themselves in for a home. That's what I saw. I think the Acadians might be down. I do. The provincial council ordered Acadian deputies to explain why they allowed the ship robbery to be committed and to demand restitution from the mcmack. Now let's not forget they're not allowed to have guns. Right. Right. Right. Forgot that. Interesting. If they did not the Acadians would be held

liable for the loss. What. In July of 1744 after years of English French skirmishes over territory and waterways an English officer wrote quote that the Acadians had no ways joined the enemy and had helped repair the works the day before the attack because of our French inhabitants refusing to take up arms against us. We owe our preservation. So he's saying. Yeah. They're fucking helping out. Right. What's the fucking deal. Also in 1744 William Shirley the governor of Massachusetts wrote that he had imagined torching an Acadian village ripping the clapper valves from their drains to the bay and ruining the grain fields from

which the French received supplies of fresh provisions. Well that's that's a smart move. The province of Nova Scotia will never be out of danger whilst the neutral French are allowed to remain. Amazing that I mean as usual the problem is the peace. Right. The problem is that's the issue. In 1748 since census pegged the Acadian population at twelve thousand five hundred. Wow. What's over a hundred years later. So they're still good. Yeah. I mean look they started with. Certainly we're plowing the field. You catch me all drift. I'm talking about sex. I got it. And things are not well between the

ruling British and the Acadians from the Boston Post. April 30th 1750. The French neutral Acadians getting fucked with the headline. The French neutral inhabitants seem determined to leave the province rather than to take the oaths to his majesty. And it is so it has come nearly to a crisis that must determine the point with them. The bigotry of these Nova Scotians alone is a most sufficient motive to carry them from this place. If they actually leave us their improvements to the land are so considerable as to make a number of fine settlements for those who replace them. So they're refusing to take the oath to

the Queen. Right. And that to these that. No. Apparently that is the fuck. That is insane. That is always the thing. It's that you always got to just say that. I mean it's such a crazy thing. Yeah. To ask for. Well that's why the the Shin. Say you love the Queen. That's why the fucking the guys from Ireland won't. Yeah. They're not going to go and do an oath to the Queen. So they won't take the seats in Parliament because of it. It still goes on is what we're saying. So Governor Charles Lawrence took control of Nova Scotia in 1753 and immediately hired a Massachusetts surveyor Brit to plan. Yes. The removal of the Acadians. I mean that

is so crazy. So long as a good out of here. So long. But it's not good. They don't care. Right. But but you're focused on the fact that they're peaceful. But that's they don't give a shit. No. Again. My cheat steel keel win. Everybody's doing it. They want the land. Yeah. But still. You know. I mean. The. There's something like people get outraged by non reaction. Yeah. They do. You know when someone chooses pacifism. They hate it. The aggressiveness gets amped up. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Quote. So long as the Acadians control the chief farmland of our country in all water communication Nova Scotia will never be

secure. Morris's plan was pretty. Just crazy. This information is just the sword we've always had. Morris's plan was pretty simple. Destroy all the settlements by burning down all the houses cutting the levees and destroy all the grain growing. So he's just stupid. That was done. Then quote the Acadians will be transported. Bring someone in for the plan. They know not where is what I'm thinking. Let's burn everything. Yeah. And I'm told. Yeah. We'll burn it all down. Uh huh. And yeah. Just like generally screw with them. You know. All right. Here's your check. Thank you. In August 1st 1754 Governor

Lawrence wrote to the British Lords of Trade about the Acadians alleging they were assisting the French and blaming the Catholic priests for it. 300 Acadians had been then found at a French fort where they were supposed to be repairing nearby levees. They asked Lawrence for permission but he had refused it so they went anyway. Lawrence also said the Acadians had not been trading at the English markets for a long time which was true because it wasn't harvest time so they actually didn't have anything to trade. Still he has every right to be angry. All right. Lawrence said they had the best land in

the province which could not be settled until the Acadians were gone. Quote I cannot help being of the opinion that it would be much better if they refused the oath that they were anyway so. But so again the total point miss with the reason the land is good is because they're there. It's not that they occupy the best land. It's that where they are the best land is. Well they did convert at the land so now technically anybody could take over the land. For sure. But but still the the reason why it's good is because they were there. Yeah. It's not like it's like oh they just found the best plot. Right. In January 1755 the

British attacked the French fort closest to the Acadians. After 10 days the French lost and the British took over. A few months later Acadian representatives were summoned before Lawrence in order to take the oath of allegiance to Britain. The Acadians wanted to go home and talk to their people before they did this but Lawrence denied that request. He then threatened all Acadians with deportation and then put the representatives in prison charged with being Catholic traders. Well that escalated a little quickly. Troops were then sent secretly into Acadian villages so they sent in spies. To appear to be

Acadian. I'm not sure it just said they were sent into Acadian villages so I assume that they may be traders or people that just like and orders were given to prevent any Acadians from escaping. In early July 1755 Lawrence took a great number of cattle from the Acadians which were all quote fattened and ready for the French fleet upon its arrival. So now they're just taking shit like well the French will take these cows and eat them. Yeah. Then on July 31st Lawrence announced the deportation of the Acadians saying they were quote the entrenched enemies of our religion and cannot safely be sent to Canada. Vessels

have been hired to convey them to the colonies and disperse them from Georgia to New England. So they're just now going to send them to America. Yeah. Another British commander wrote quote they have ever been our secret enemies and have encouraged our Indians to cut our throats. If we can accomplish this expulsion it will have been one of the greatest deeds the English in America have ever achieved. Oh God. In August transport ships were hired. I don't even know what it sounds like but it's familiar. In August transport ships were hired Thomas Hancock brother of John Hancock supplied the ships. Cool. And the assault on Acadia

began. September 14th 1755 newspaper report 400 forces had been at an Acadian village called La Jure and burned 170 or so houses. Another village the British forces burnt several houses there but when they tried to set the church on fire they were attacked by a number of French and Indians between four or 500 who killed and took 24 of our men prisoners. Oh nice nice. At an old Fort 500 heads of families of the neutrals were taken together with their families amounting to about 2500. Okay well okay not great. A major fry landed at another village but discovered all the Acadians had fled except for 25 women and

children who were taken prisoner and put aboard transport ships. Cool. The next morning the troops set fire to the buildings and burnt down 18 houses and barns then burnt down the church. Didn't they want this land? They're just burning the they're just burning the buildings. The buildings. The lands fine. Lands fine. Okay. A Colonel Winslow captured 1500 neutrals 26 of the Acadians dug out of Fort Lawrence in the night and escaped. They joined the French who it was believed were 500 strong. While all this was going on another Colonel sailed the harbors creeks and rivers destroying every French vessel boat or canoe he

could find to prevent any Acadians from escaping. Any abandoned Acadian village he came across he burned. A British soldier wrote about what he witnessed. Quote melancholy indeed had you seen them as I did and witnessed the distress of that poor people when compelled to see their dwellings given to the flames themselves reduced in one day to the situation of poppers from a state of plenty their husbands and wives parents and children separated and put into different vessels. Okay now I know what it sounds like we know I've got it what's that yeah it's we were told they were the greatest set of white savages

savages that ever existed a more peaceful harmless and even pious set of persons never existed so the soldiers are like wait I thought they're supposed to be bad. In other words a culture of humans who provided a lot of good were told to get out because spoiled people were convinced that they were the enemy via propagandist behavior. Yeah that's pretty much it. Well Dave like we always say I'm glad we've learned. To most Acadians the attack came as a surprise they were hastily put on board boats carrying only what they could grab. In one area 4,000 people removed 400 houses 500 barns burned 200 steer cow calves

horses 600 horses 12,000 sheep 800 pigs confiscated. The estimates of the deportation vary from 6,000 to 7,500 people they were taken to the colonies. Three ships full of neutrals arrived in Boston. Massachusetts would get around 2,000 of the Acadians. Boston newspapers wrote of quote the horrid butcheries and cruel murders committed by the hands of savage Indians instigated by more than savage Catholic priests. Wait so they're they're blaming they're against them as well and blaming the Native Americans for they're blaming the Native American savage behavior on the Catholics the Catholic Acadians. Pris and Jesuits have

long enjoyed free access to the Neutral French making the Acadians the chief instruments of alienating all of the Indians. I mean why? Because they're a blank slate. I know they're just quiet. You can just put whatever you want on. I mean this is literally like attacking the Amish. This is like invading Amish country. A little bit yeah. We're fine over here yeah get out we don't want you here anymore. Quote Catholicism guarantees its adherence adherence a degree high degree of happiness in heaven if they were to lose their lives in the execution of their villainies. The Acadians are as likely as not to blow up

our powerhouse or set fire to the town. So Neutrals based on their violent history. At this point Neutrals they're using as a mock in a mocking way. Neutral they're so against you not choosing sides that they they've labeled you the problem. Neutral is a neutral is an issue. Yeah on the 19th the 20th of November 1755 three ships arrived in Philadelphia one was ordered to keep sailing. The governor of Pennsylvania wrote to the governor of Massachusetts quote two vessels arrived here with upward of 300 from Nova Scotia who governor Lawrence has sent to remain in this province and I am at a very great

loss to know what to do with them. Pennsylvania had no military force of any kind and the people were very concerned about having what they considered to be enemies living all over the place. They worried the Neutrals would gather information and then go join the French to fight against the colonies and they worried about the Catholic allegiance and that they could join with Irish and German to cause trouble. The governor of Pennsylvania put guards on each ship and ordered the Neutrals should be provided with provisions but since the crown had ordered it the crown had to pay for it.

The chief magistrate in New Jersey wrote to the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts governors quote I am truly surprised how it could ever enter the thoughts of those who had control of the French Neutrals or rather traitors to the crown of Great Britain to direct any of them to these provinces where we have already too great a number of foreigners for our own good and safety. I just can't get over people at this time saying they're foreigners. I mean clearly they just think they're British but Jesus you're in another country. It's like that Louis Seca joke I like I

could go to Africa and say I'm the only majority here. It's crazy. I entirely agree that these people would readily join with the Irish Catholics to ruin and destruction of the king's colonies. Should any of them try to leave here I shall do all in my power to crush any such attempt. Good God. I need from ultimate freedom. Right they were living the fucking life literally two months ago they were living the life. On November 24th the governor of Pennsylvania addressed the assembly and told them he did not think it was safe to allow the Acadians on to shore. What have they done? They've done nothing. Yeah

but the propaganda is exactly that savages but they've done nothing. They have done nothing. That same day Pennsylvania got a grant of 5,000 pounds from England to be used for common safety. This is the assembly voted to take care and protect the neutrals. So they got paid off. Okay. The people worried a gentleman wrote a letter in the Pennsylvania Gazette quote may God be pleased to give us success against our copper colored cannibals and French savages equally cruel and treacherous in their natures. Just no connection. No reality. But that so it's never mattered. Reality is never really mattered. What?

It's never really mattered what the reality is. What matters is what is the perceived point that gets the most rile out of folk. The Acadians asked the governor assembly to give them permission to leave or to be sent to France or any French colony. Can we do literally what we like to call anything else? Is that possible? We begged to be allowed to join our own nation. The governor was having nothing to just go home. They just want to go anywhere. Our wives and children be suffered to perish before our eyes. How grievous this will be had we not better have died in our own native land. The governor of

Pennsylvania had the French neutrals dispersed around to other counties in South Carolina. They were not allowed. They were really not down with the neutrals. Quote, they're insolent rascals talking a high voice just throwing this weird random. They're high talkers. I know. Yeah. Yeah. It's almost Trumpian because it's very like the way he would like little Mako or whatever he'd call him. You know, he just like he just hit you with a haymaker and you'd be like, wait, what? They're the two squealers. These ones. Oh, you know what? I call them mouse people. Walking around with their high pitched squeaks begging

for cheese. So from ours, they call it. They're talking to a high voice. They call themselves subjects of the French King. No, I'm not in the Katie and what made you think so? They declared they were neutrals and admit they were found in a French fort. They say they will settle here if we allow them such privileges as they require, particularly the public exercise of their Catholic religion and their priests. So they part of the issue, too, is that they, you know, like people who you know for sacrifice won't give up their beliefs and like they're still like, well, no, I'm neutral. So I'm

neutral. Yeah, that's who I am. Right. The South Carolinians were also very upset that I'm thinking about it. What doesn't this sound like? They're very upset that the Canadians would not take the oath of allegiance, which made them view the neutrals with even more suspicion. For years, the people of South Carolina have been reading sensational news articles about French and Indian fighting up north because their governor had ordered the press not to print stories of local bloody Indian conflicts. All right. Since they needed good bloody stories to tell, they wrote about the neutrals. Oh God. God,

what a screwjob. I wish I mean, I wish it wouldn't. It's cool that fake news is new, though. This is just the first time we've had it. One legislator was worried the neutrals would start working with local Native Americans and get them to fight with the French. Others worried Catholic Acadians would find accomplices in African Catholic slaves and talk them into running away to Spanish Florida, which would leave to an invasion by the French or quote generally annoy the province. Don't annoy us. At the same time, South Carolina hurting Dave. At the same time, South Carolinians didn't want the to starve

the Acadians. So the idea of having hundreds of starving to death people clogging the Charleston port is what eventually led officials to bring the neutrals ashore. They were lodged in barracks and those able to work were indentured. The governor was displeased with their Frenchness, quote. Although these men are as majesty subjects and native born, their behavior has revealed that the Acadians as a whole remain audaciously French. That the note is that they're French, audaciously French, offensively French. That's the note. Yeah, they're really, really French. They're so ridiculously

French. Look, I think the port remains there just a bit too bloody French. In Georgia, 200 Acadians arrived. Legislators moaned about their attachment to France, their ridiculous desire to remain Catholic, their refusal to start changing French fries to freedom fries in this episode. They don't have them yet. Thank you. And or the and their refusal to fight against Britain when they lived in Nova Scotia, they can't be right against French. Maryland was a colony founded as a haven for English Catholics. Four ships with about 900 arrived at the end of November and Maryland Papers asked Christians to

lend assistance to the Acadians who needed compassion. Okay, so it turns out in a place where it's just Catholic people, right? It's fine. And that's weird. God. But you know, if we if if we just could accept difference, that's not gonna happen. I mean, God damn, just shut it. Think about it. You're an animal. Think about it. Your animal. Can I touch you? No, lose the shirt. Lose the top. Like you're saying. So naturally, this Maryland situation was upsetting to people in Pennsylvania. Representative noted that how does that affect your I mean, the only reason is that you're like, they'll come here soon. Okay, keep

going. Representative noted that quote, the Roman Catholic, neutral French are allowed in the neighboring province of Maryland. He went on to say it would be impossible since they enjoyed the privileges of free men to detect them if they traveled into Pennsylvania. I guess it's just as we know, it's all fear based. Keep going. Often Germans traveled out of Maryland and they were not examined, just allowed to pass. Well, well, well. In Nova Scotia, Governor Lawrence wrote a letter to other governors that he quote, rejoiced that the deportees could not easily collect themselves together again, thus ending

their ability to do any mischief. And they did have a hard time, quote, collecting themselves. And the Boston Gazette advertisements were printed as Acadian families tried to find each other, man looking for their wives, families looking for their children, because they had just been put on separate boats and sent to different colonies. Based on Lawrence's comment, this sounds purposeful. Can you imagine that? Honestly, like the I like the idea that and I mean, this is yeah, it's still happens. But but the idea that in a split second, you're gonna get put on something. And if you don't, if you're

not near your family, you'll never see them again. Or even if you were near them, they might have put you on a different boat. Yeah, that's what I mean. Like you you could get thrown. I mean, it's, this is applicable to nine different things. Some neutrals had made their way to Barbados. In April 1756, a fire broke out in Bridgetown in a store setting off a larger fire which burnt between 70 and 80 houses and killed some people. Blacks or the Acadians were suspected to a continual watch and patrol were constant in the town. Well, I'm sure it was fair and just. In Charleston, South Carolina, a group of male Acadians

escaped. One or two were captured while 30 made it away. Five or six of them went to the plantation of Mr. John Williams. And while he was away from home, terrified his wife stole firearms along with clothes, money and some goods. So they just needed stuff. Yeah. But again, she was terrified just because they were there. Yeah. And again, I mean, like that, you know, that that's theft out of total necessity after having the rug pulled out from under you, which is different than just stealing. Locals tracked the group into a swamp where they lost the trail and naturally everyone was very concerned. In Charleston, they said

becoming swamp Acadians. This is more torches, gentlemen. This is the original story of Swamp Thing. This is Swamp Thing. Yeah. In Charleston, they said that they watched the Acadians closely using their militia, a hired watch as well as private soldiers. The neutrals were beginning to settle in a remote village and 78 had married Native Americans and had children. Okay. So they're fucking out there like, okay, let's go way out here and get back to our life. Hey, you know, we like the other neutral people. Obviously, this was very, very concerned. Oh, no, they're making peace box. Quote, this new colony

is likely to become exceeding populace in a few years. Boy, scores of other Acadians got into canoes and left for Virginia. They had passports from the South Carolina governor, but the Virginians were not down. When they arrived there, word went out that Virginia was thinking of sending them to England. Okay. In Massachusetts, Acadian families were sent to small towns around the colony and put under charge of the local, quote, overseers of the poor. Village authorities were expecting to be reimbursed for their expenses by the provincial government. In turn, Massachusetts expected to be

reimbursed by Nova Scotia. Oh, great. And Nova Scotia was hoping to be reimbursed by Great Britain. And Ponzi was invent. But none of that happened, because Nova Scotia never sent any money and then they never asked for any money. And so Massachusetts never got any money. So the little towns never got any money. Oh, great. That's what we call trickle down. That led to people in Massachusetts being furious. The neutrals were under constant suspicion. In the town of Needham, the council protested the number of French they had received was out of proportion.

Pretty funny that in a town of Needham, they didn't want them. One of the villages 13 Acadians had gone to Philadelphia and returned with his destitute wife and demanded support. Okay. Thomas Hancock sent a boat to have a group of neutrals in one village shipped down to North Carolina, where no one wanted them. Good Lord. The boat landed in May 1756, but the Acadians, sorry, the boat was to be launched this May 1756, but the Acadians overpowered the crew and then came ashore by force. Hancock kept trying to get them back on board, but the efforts were futile.

Yeah, but I mean, honestly, you've now have created a violent class. You've now created what you want. In one, yeah. In one Massachusetts town, the 20-ish-year-old daughters of Claude Bourjoux turned scraps of wool the family had managed to save from their home in Nova Scotia into clothing that they could sell. Well, I don't like the sound of this one bit. That offended a few of the town's inhabitants. I don't like why they're selling wool. They're selling wool. Next thing you know,

they're knocking on doors trying to sell it. Next thing you know, they're inside having a meal. Next thing you know, your daughter's pregnant with a neutral. Won't even be a boy or a girl. It'll be an in-between neutral baby. The town's people burst into their home, ripped the young women out of their parents' arms and hauled them off. When the father found his daughters and brought them home, the town responded by cutting off the family's supply of food. I will say that when that started with cutting off, I got very worried that

heads was going to be soon. In Hanover, after two weeks of working, not getting paid and only being given food of, quote, bad quality on the farm of John Bailey, Acadian brothers Charles and Nicholas. Come on guys, come and eat your oats. Brew, complain. Slop in the Acadians. Come on guys, slop time. The brothers complained to the authorities in Boston. Okay. A few days later, quote, 20 men of menacing dispositions burst into their home, tied them up,

placed their elder parents in a cart, and wheeled them off to an unknown place. Sorry, they're... I mean, it just sounds like an Uber. It just took their parents. Just put the parents in a cart and like put them at a farmer's market stand? They never saw them again. You don't cart chase? Don't complain about the food. I don't think they're allowed to cart chase to be most fair. That's an even more, that's that that makes that more painful. Another Acadian, after working two

months in a small Massachusetts town, received three rolls of old cloth, two pounds of dried cod, and one pound of pork fat. He protested and, quote, found himself pursued by the overseer of the poor armed with a poker, who although he did not make good on his promise to kill him like a frog, nevertheless dispensed a beating that caused the Acadian to spit blood for the rest of the day. That's the overseer of the poor. Wait, that's the... but overseers are terrible, right?

In this case, think overseer of the poor is just supposed to take care of the poor people. They're not supposed to beat them. Genuinely an actual overseer that is now beating them? Yeah. In Wilmington, Acadian... What does the enemy do? Oh, yeah, that's... no, it's not good. No. In Wilmington, Acadian John Labrador's seven children lived in a house, quote, which... They're all dogs! Which has neither door nor roof. Well, that's okay. Then they're not dogs. No roof. He complained

when the home flooded during a storm, but the town counselor advised him to, quote, build a boat and navigate in it. So he was given walls. That's not a home. Well... That's a cubicle. In Lancaster, an Acadian father apprenticed a son to a local carpenter to try to earn extra money, and the carpenter, quote, instead gave the boy black and blue bruises on the arm or rendering it unusable for a month. Others in the town grew tired of what

they considered the Acadian's freeloading. They evicted a family from a house, quote, local tufts tore the crippled wife from her bed and tossed her into a cart, aggravating injuries she had received in Nova Scotia. Who's carding? There's a lot of carding happening. Carding is a thing. I mean... They're carding more than bouncers at bars. In June, seven boats of Acadians were allowed to leave Georgia and South Carolina. They went to New Jersey. Their council had been called to

decide... Did they get to Jersey and they were like, not this one. No, let's keep going. We're desperate for land and life, but it looks like a bit of a toilet. No, no. Yes. Bye-bye. They're a council... Go take the old tessnuki. They're a council that had been called to decide what to do with them. In July 12th, they sailed on. July 26th, the Boston Even Post, quote, a few days ago we learned about 90 French nationals arrived near Cape Cod. They were first sent to Georgia, but they were not liking the country

and the country not liking them. They had been allowed to coast it along from one government to another until last they are come to an additional trouble and charged to this province. A letter printed in the Boston Gazette reframed it, quote, 80 French neutrals came to town yesterday having pleasureed along the coast from Georgia. Oh, well, well, it must be nice to hit land after that much vacation. Was it a Disney cruise they were on? Was it carnival? Oh, we have to leave the ship.

I'm in luxury. It's so fun to sit in the ship and not eat. Come on. I mean, by day, we eat lobster. Night, we have my time. So watch stand-up comedy. In New York, they were stopped and their canoes were taken by order of the governor. Cool. They were sent to different parts of the province. Good lord. On September 13th, the governor of New York... I like 13th. I think we can stick with that. The governor of New York said the Akkadians who had tried to get back to Nova Scotia that that would be a disaster

and he would do everything his power and acquired everyone in the province to do everything in their power to keep the Akkadians from leaving. Okay. And to keep an eye out for any passing through heading north. Okay. October 1756, a Pennsylvania bill was passed to take care of the old sick and maimed and also if Akkadian parents could not support their children, they would be bound out as servants. Oh my god. So slaves. In Savannah, Georgia, Akkadians became useful to the colony

as they were employed to make oars, hand spikes, and other items for ships. A British traveler wrote, the outside of Savannah, I am very much affected to see such a number of distressed French people surrounded with large families and helpless infants. The refugees should be given a bit of land. A garden might enable them to obtain a more comfortable support. So they're just, it's just like classic refugees. Yeah. In Virginia, the legislature... I mean just no rights. Nothing. Just fucked.

Which is still anyway. In Virginia, the legislature and governor negotiated and reached an agreement to support the Akkadians out of the governor's household budget. Oh my god. What? I mean, I can see no redeeming value in Akkadian labor. Oh my god. The neutral French give a general discontent to the people here as they are bigoted Catholics lazy and have a contentious behavior. The settlers go troubled in regard to the Akkadian... My values are better.

I become alarmed for fear of them debauching our Negroes. Wait, who, what? The governor. He said that he was afraid that they would deb... debauches Negroes. I mean, you just... Everyone's got something they're concerned about. You know what I mean? Everyone has a thing that they're like, why hope that doesn't happen? Think of that's your problem. I'm worried about my slaves, Minglin. That fear led to the government putting the Akkadians on boats where they lived

in a Virginia harbor. Can we just say that they're basically aquatic at this point? They're not. I mean, they're living like Waterworld. So they put on boats, boats where they lived in a Virginia harbor during the winter of 1756. Oh my god. What? The government prevented their boats from landing. The governor claimed that, quote, many had spent their infrequent moments ashore tampering with the Negro slaves, which, together with the invasion of the French and Indians of our frontiers,

made our people extremely uneasy. Yeah, I'm done. I'm done. I mean, it's like a man shouting at a TV. By spring over a quarter of the boat, trapped Akkadians had died of disease and maltrition. From what? Nature? Yeah. Nature. The legislature voted in the spring to send the still alive Akkadians to England. But when the boats appeared in Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton, officials in England were upset and expressed much, quote, displeasure and objection as the ships appeared. They were put into

warehouses where smallpox devastated them. So they had a good last year. Some lucky Akkadians were able to return to France. On April 19th, 1759, Captain Wright reported that a ship with 310 Akkadians on board was piloted into an island off Portugal and was lost. Crazy. What's so crazy is that genuinely the problem is what do we do with them when France is just such an obvious place? But they can't because they're at war with France and that's giving, they think they know a lot.

They know a lot about the colonies now. They know a lot about Canada. They know a lot about the land. They're saying you're giving them a spice. But why do they know all that? Fuck off. Why do they know all that? They know all that because they were not permitted immediately to just go back to where they're from. I don't need your bullshit. Which is even fucked up. I don't need your bullshit. So it's the, I mean good lord. Some lucky Akkadians were able to return to France. Like I said, one pilot into an island off Portugal and was

lost. Around 200 Akkadians died. This was the third or fourth transport that was headed back to France that sunk. If CNN was around back then they'd have built a model ship. In one shipwreck the captain wrote quote, the French neutrals gave up all hope and said God had forsaken them and they were resigned to death. In their last moments they behaved with the greatest fortitude. They came and embraced me saying that I with my crew had done all in our power to save the ship and their lives.

But as I could be of no further service to them begged I would save my own life and my men. Taking their priest with me and waving us to be gone their cries almost broke our hearts. Oh. So they're still awesome. After all this they're still awesome. From the Philadelphia exec April 10th 1760 the present situation in this colony I assure you is that no description can surpass its calamity. What few citizens escape the Indians no sooner arrive in town

than they are seized with a smallpox which generally which generally carries them off and from the numbers already dead you may judge the fatality of the disease. Of the white inhabitants 95 were dead two days ago. Acadians 115. Negroes 500. About 1500 white inhabitants 1800 Negroes and 300 Acadians have had the distemper. So a smallpox hits Pennsylvania in 1761. The legislature looks into it. Expenses for taking care of the Acadians which had skyrocketed because smallpox hit.

Besides just caring for the sick there was the cost now of supporting widows and orphans. Oh my god. Quote they likewise have a number of children who ought to have been bound out to service but their parents have always opposed it on account of their religion. Yeah. Yeah yeah. Many of these children because they want to keep their kids. Yeah no no but that's a religious thing. Some crazy religious people. They believe a crazy religion where they don't want their children to be fully enslaved. They're just

I mean they're Acadians. They're weird. They're weirdos gang. The Acadians responded that they were sorry that they were so expensive that. Sorry that you've thrown us to death and it's costing you money. But they were so but that this was mostly due to smallpox. You see it's just that we all have smallpox and we're dying. Which they hope might not happen again during their stay here. We are very sorry and we are hoping that this is not a thing we do. We're trying to shake ourselves of this and we will not be a fursor in position.

The Acadians then petitioned the court of great Britain to be sent to old. Who have smallpox and petitions. Well they these are the ones who didn't. Like to be sent to France or anywhere instead of being separated from their children so they don't want their children to be too. How easy it is to get a petition signed that says can we go anywhere else instead of our kids being slaves. In 1764 Acadians living in Savannah Georgia left to move to Cape Francois Haiti. French authorities had decided they

would pay to send Acadians to the French Caribbean territories to try non-African slave labor. The French people backing it hoped this would be an example for the world to see non-slave labor could work. Captain Hanson sailed to Cape Francois with around 40 Acadians. All but seven died soon after arriving. A few months later Captain Welsh took a hundred Acadians from Providence and sailed for Cape Francois. A couple months later around 600 left on ships out of Boston. It didn't go great in Boston quote

their removal is felt by the citizens here because of the extraordinary rise in the price of wood which the Acadians cut and had supplied the town with. Two months later a letter arrived in Boston from Cape Francois. Of the 700 that were there only 280 were still alive. They had landed but had no homes and had to build them themselves. They were forced to work long hours not allowed to own land and were not given any money for their labor so they got rid of the the slaves and pay some slaves. A couple months later in July

1765 around 400 Acadians arrived in New Orleans from France. They had been living there for 10 years after getting the boot from Nova Scotia so some of them got back there. Okay. Other Acadians who had recently been able to return to France had petitioned the government to send them to Louisiana which was a Spanish colony. Was a Spanish colony? Through treaties yeah. Okay. The king instead sent them to an island that already had a colony on it so he was like nah how about they send you to something else. Good.

In 1771 the Acadian representative was sent on behalf of 113 heads of family and reminded the French king of reports their fellow Acadians who had escaped Halifax and Philadelphia and admitted to Louisiana and were happy. He said the Acadians would cost the crown less if they were allowed to live in New Orleans. In 1785 1600 Acadians 70% of France's Acadian population sailed from France to Louisiana. The Spanish government allotted lands in different parts of Louisiana to the Acadians while in New Orleans Acadian

was changed by the local dialect into Cajun. Today there is a parish in Louisiana called Acadia. Wow that's crazy and what's kind of crazy is how the people in New Orleans are awesome. Right. That's crazy. So the people in New Orleans. And when you even say Cajun I mean that is like that's the heart of that culture. Yeah. God damn David. Artistic. Yeah. Enjoy the pleasures in life. Yes. Like it's all it's all it's all it's all still

there. Proof. It their culture survived. Wow that's crazy. Even though it was every every attempt was made to kill it. Good Lord. There's another small group of Acadians that made their way to a coastal area of Maine. They lived in a place that is now known as Acadian altogether around 20,000 Acadians were deported from Nova Scotia. In French the deportation of the Acadians is called La Grande Derangement. The Big Arrangement.

Derangement. Derangement. Oh there's a D there. Yeah. Okay that's so more accurate. But isn't it crazy you listen to that story and then you get to New Orleans and you go oh. That's crazy because that that I mean what's nice about that is that you know cream rice rose to the top there. But what why are you pointing at me? I was just gonna say what's horrible about it. I has never taught this. No. No and and that's truly the thing is that you know like you can you can get mad about

not knowing some of this stuff but it has nothing to do with us. We are we are they choose to teach us good. Right. And what we should be taught is bad. What we should be taught is truth. Truth. But truth is but truly. There's some good it's not a lot. For sure. Yeah. There's some but it's pretty bad. But again I mean you know think of the difference that that would make in the world if you're you know your education was one where you were taught pretty often. If someone is trying to own another's life

and trying to command another or a race or a culture has no actual benefit. All they all they had to say was the Cajuns in New Orleans are refugees and you would go huh. Yeah. And that would set off. Totally. A question and a curiosity. Look you need a teacher to shout a data at you. I'm proof but it and it really is just like a very apt comparison is like it just it's very it's also look. I mean you just you like you know can't be scared of people who are fleeing from death and destruction.

Those are not the people to be scared of. The people you should be scared of are the fucking people causing the death and destruction. Those are the people that are the problem. There is not the goddamn people fleeing the fucking nightmare. There is a culture that we could declare war on and it would actually help and it's dicks. Dicks sporting goods? Dicks. Pricks. Assholes. Yeah. They're everywhere. Yeah. But for the most part we're all trying. We're all I mean yeah I'm done. I might need a whiskey.

We sign Cajuns. We sign a Cardians. That was all right. I like cheers. I like I mean they end this.