{"id":59428,"date":"2020-01-28T19:18:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59428"},"modified":"2020-01-28T19:25:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:25:47","slug":"mary-ellen-pleasant-becomes-a-rich-black-abolitionist-feat-lisa-bonet-drunk-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59428","title":{"rendered":"Mary Ellen Pleasant Becomes a Rich, Black Abolitionist (feat. Lisa Bonet) &#8211; Drunk History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FoF3417mQtI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Mary Ellen Pleasant Becomes a Rich, Black Abolitionist (feat. Lisa Bonet) &#8211; Drunk History<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.com\/shows\/drunk-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drunk History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comedy Central<\/a><br \/>\n2019-06-16<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FoF3417mQtI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Ellen_Pleasant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Ellen Pleasant<\/a> was a former slave who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posed as a white woman<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco<\/a>, amassed a fortune and fought for the rights of black people.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the popular web series, <em>Drunk History<\/em> is the liquored-up narration of our nation&#8217;s history. Host <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Derek_Waters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derek Waters<\/a>, along with an ever-changing cast of actors and comedians, travels across the country to present the rich tales that every city in this land has to offer. Booze helps bring out the truth. It&#8217;s just that sometimes the truth is a little incoherent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Ellen Pleasant was a former slave who posed as a white woman in San Francisco, amassed a fortune and fought for the rights of black people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,459,8,6462,6940,20,25],"tags":[455,19775,30644,30642,30643,28537,9568],"class_list":["post-59428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-california","tag-comedy-central","tag-derek-waters","tag-drunk-history","tag-lisa-bonet","tag-mary-ellen-pleasant","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59430,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59428\/revisions\/59430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}