Tag: Flee

Free Download The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY7DDVXW | 2024 | 13 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Troy Tassier
Narrator: David Thorpe
How can we make society more resilient to outbreaks and avoid forcing the poor and working class to bear the brunt of their harm? When an epidemic outbreak occurs, the most physical and financial harm historically falls upon the people who can least afford it: the economically and socially marginalized. Where people live and work, how they commute and socialize, and more have a huge impact on the risks we bear during an outbreak. In The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus, economist Troy Tassier examines examples ranging from the 430 BCE plague of Athens to the COVID-19 pandemic to demonstrate why marginalized groups bear the largest burden of epidemic costs-and how to avoid these systemic failures in the future.

Free Download Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWSM6SVG | 2023 | 10 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Scott Shane
Narrator: Rhett Samuel Price
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Born into slavery, by the 1840s Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short walk from the U.S. Capitol. He recruited a young white activist, Charles Torrey, and together they began to organize mass escapes from Washington, Baltimore, and surrounding counties to freedom in the north. They were racing against an implacable enemy: men like Hope Slatter, the region’s leading slave trader, part of a lucrative industry that would tear one million enslaved people from their families and sell them to the brutal cotton and sugar plantations of the deep south.