Mossback's Northwest
Meet the Confederate spy who became mayor of Seattle
6/4/2019 | 4m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
The story of a white supremacist who left an uncomfortable past for the frontier.
Beriah Brown was a frontier newspaperman who defended slavery and the South during the Civil war. His work infuriated Union supporters who drove him out of San Francisco under threat of lynching. He fled to Seattle to escape the past and start over.
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Mossback's Northwest is a local public television program presented by Cascade PBS
Mossback's Northwest
Meet the Confederate spy who became mayor of Seattle
6/4/2019 | 4m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
Beriah Brown was a frontier newspaperman who defended slavery and the South during the Civil war. His work infuriated Union supporters who drove him out of San Francisco under threat of lynching. He fled to Seattle to escape the past and start over.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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