About this episode

This episode serves as a trailer for a six-part series about a conspiracy during the American Civil War aimed at toppling state governments and freeing Confederate prisoners.

A six-part podcast series that tells a forgotten story from the American Civil War. A group of Northerners, angry at President Lincoln, conspired with Confederates to plan an armed insurrection intended to topple the governments of several midwestern states and free tens of thousands of Confederate prisoners from Union prisons, hoping they would force an end to the Civil War with the Confederacy intact and slavery still legal. It would have worked, except for a Union spy who was embedded in their midst.

More episodes of The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America

• Copperhead Conspiracy: Fire and Pestilence · February 10, 2026 · 27 min
• Copperhead Conspiracy: Oh Canada · February 3, 2026 · 25 min
• Copperhead Conspiracy: The Union Fights Back · January 27, 2026 · 25 min
• Copperhead Conspiracy: Birth of a Movement · January 20, 2026 · 27 min
• Copperhead Conspiracy: Introduction · January 12, 2026 · 29 min
• Episode Ten: My Old Kentucky Home · April 26, 2021 · 37 min

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