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John Brown TodayAuthor: Louis DeCaro Jr.
John Brown Today is a podcast devoted to historical and contemporary themes relating to the abolitionist John Brown (1800-59), the controversial antislavery and antiracist freedom fighter. John Brown Today is hosted by Louis A. DeCaro Jr., a Brown biographer and researcher, the most prolific author on the John Brown theme since the abolitionist's death in 1859. John Brown Today engages a range of themes from history and biography to popular culture and other contemporary themes. Language: en-us Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Terrible Parable of the Dumbass Doyles
Sunday, 1 March, 2026
Send a textIn this episode, Lou revisits the story of James and Maehala Doyle of Tennessee, who devoted themselves and their family to supporting slavery and opposing antislavery and abolitionist settlers in the Kansas Territory. In the Pottawatomie incident of May 1856, Doyle and his two oldest sons, William and Drury, were killed by John Brown's men, under the leadership of the old man, because of their role in spreading and supporting proslavery terrorism in the territory, and for posing a direct threat to the lives and well-being of the Browns. The Doyles are dumbasses--ignorant people caught up in advancing injustice and bigotry--and represent an element in the history of the United States that are always the most dangerous because they are the most useful tools to the machinations of powerful but wicked elites, from the slaveholders of the antebellum era to the fascist rightwingers of today.
