Billy Flora was a Black Revolutionary War hero from Virginia. His heroics in one particular battle were nothing short of extraordinary. Hear his story in this episode of the Cardinal News 250 podcast. Host Dutchie Jessee. Guest: Harvey Bakari, Black history curator at the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.
See also Leah Small’s story on Billy Flora.
Our other Cardinal 250 podcasts:
- Podcast on the age of the Founding Fathers (which was younger than you might think).
- Podcast on the music of the Revolution.
- Podcast on the legend of Susanna Bolling, a 16-year-old from modern-day Hopewell who supposedly rode overnight to save Lafayette from being captured
- Podcast with historian Garrett Channell on “forgotten founder” Andrew Lewis.
- Podcast with Tom Vaughan of the Overmountain Men Trail Association.
- Podcast with Essex County Museum Executive Director Tim Manley about his county’s re-enactment of the historic Essex Resolutions.
- Podcast with descendants of Black Virginians who moved to freedom in Nova Scotia after the war (and the Canadian museum dedicated to them).
- Podcast with award-winning historian Woody Holton about “the forgotten founders.”
- Retired Virginia Commonwealth University journalism professor Jeff South about the role of the press in Colonial Virginia.
- South also talks about Clementina Rind, the first woman to publish a newspaper in Virginia.
- Cheryl Wilson, executive director of the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission.
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