Public Universal Friend

An episode of the Throughline podcast, hosted by NPR, titled "Public Universal Friend" was published on March 5, 2020 and runs 48 minutes.

March 5, 2020 ·48m · Throughline

Summary

America in the run-up to the Revolutionary War wasn't just a period of dramatic political change, it was also a time of great religious and social instability, anxiety and experimentation. And in the midst of it all there arose a self-proclaimed genderless prophet — the Public Universal Friend. This week, how the Public Universal Friend rocked society's norms and paved the way for others to reject religious and gender expectations for centuries to come. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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