A Modern South | American History through Southern Eyes 

You could hear in the narrator voice that he felt uncomfortable TALKING about SLAVERY!

I grew up in a small New England town, near waterpower and Mr. Milliken bought a factory and created many jobs. He established a small hospital, bowling alley, and day care. These were nice for the 50s. Then the workers formed a union and he offered to take workers who wanted to go ,no union, back down South. Thank you Mr. Millikan you made my childhood nicer!

The one gentleman sneered about the fact that the north had factories and sweatshops. How inhumane🤔🙄

Nice video, thank you

Excellent presentation.

No mention of the steel mills post antebellum at Birmingham, Alabama, but a good documentary, as a northerner, never heard of --""LINTHEADS" before, very funny!!!, though!!

Textiles,sawmills, such made a Southern Confederate States.

That was pretty good

Generations of my family worked in the cotton industry in Northern England as nothing much but economic slaves.

My Mom started picking cotton at the early age of 7 with my Grandma in South Carolina

While exploitation existed throughout the country, it seems to have been the only game in the South. Not a lot of wealth was created from innovation.

Southern charm..

This sounds like the southwest mining towns

God bless Ely Whitney.

Picking cotton on a hot summer day was not easy work. a factory in most places had a roof over it. The sun is relentless. Good for you but relentless. That's for a young man. As you age you can't take that heat. Cotton was a huge export to Britain and other countries. The south in the USA has the best cotton. This is true. They had free labor though. not entirely free but the price of the bought slaves and you had to feed them and take care of them good enough to work hard and produce. there in lies your problem. lol Currency was also a problem in the south. The rail system was not even close to the rail system in the north. that was a huge blow to the civil war in the south. they had the heart but not the means to keep their troops supplied while north railed supplies in and if if their were no rails they laid them.

Did you shed a tear for the slave that was sold away from their mothers and mothers from children or LYNCHINGS?

Child labor and slavery is a good thing. Signed, the old and new south

Free land and FREE LABOUR MADE America great 💪🏾

Got love the south first it was slaves then its child labor what where they thinking. Slavery was and child labor ate both horrible things

I think the South would’ve been better off if left an agrarian society. No family should have more land than they could work in a day. That comes to about 40 acres.

Chattel slave to wage slave, live Northern factory workers.

The southerner said that they were free agriculturists! Hmm - perhaps but the work was done by those who were not free. Frankly the trouble and ignorance of the South still exists becasue unlike the Revolution, we let these fighters for slavery stay - we should have kicked the whole lot out after the Civil War.

Ugh! Thought this was gonna be about South America.

Lol "manufacturing wasnt respectable" but slavery was 😉

Discusting history of human abuse.

profitable because you hard cheap labor....FACT