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Christopher Dickey, "Our Man in Charleston"
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August 12, 2015
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57:26Now PlayingFocusing on Robert Bunch, the British consul to the U.S. from 1853 to 1864, Dickey tells a story of diplomacy, spies, and servitude as Bunch’s Charleston friends pushed for Great Britain’s official recognition of the Confederacy, while Bunch resisted an action he knew would reinvigorate the slave trade, which he abhorred.
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