Meet the Confederate spy who became mayor of Seattle

True tales from the most interesting place on earth.

Season 2019 Episode 9 | 4m 3s | CC

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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