The Origins of the American Civil War | Debunking Lost Cause Narratives 

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This is a very small detail but I appreciate the respect given to the humanity of my ancestors and referring to them as "enslaved people". Thank you.

One of my professors would say something like "Yeah, it was about states' rights. The right to do what? To own slaves."

I completely agree with your stance of wanting to correct all the lies. I’m also descended from men who fought on the wrong side, and I learned a colorful array of lost cause narratives as actual, and sometimes as the “real” and “suppressed” history. I was over 30 when I learned that the lost cause story was written with the full knowledge of deceiving the future generations of the south through public school boards. So I also decided to talk about this subject as much as possible.

Here's a fun little challenge: choose the secession declaration for any Southern state and do a keyword search for "tax" and "tariff", see how many results come up, and THEN search for "slave" and see how many returns that one gets :)

The War of Southern Aggression is what it should be called as the North was mostly content to keep slavery from expanding. The leadership of the South on the other hand understood that Slavery HAD to expand or it would die chocking on it's own waste and failures, so rather than changing or trying to fix the problems they doubled down on it and pushed all the harder to expand. The Southern elities pushed for the breaking of previous agreements to limit the expansion and there were threat of violence in congress.

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice" - Abraham Lincoln

To your point about duty, with you 100%. My direct ancestors owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy. I’ve felt the same way as you my whole life

Everybody's family is on the right and wrong side of history from time to time. The better question is always what side will we be on and why. Glad you are taking the topic on!

There should be no confusion of the main reason slavery caused succession. It's listed first in each of the state declarations of succession.

one of the things I bring up when someone when talks about states rights as a civil war cause I talk about the Fugitive Slave act that directly violated many northern states rights.

I’m from Maryland and have ancestors on both sides of the Civil War. I’m also descended from a slave. I was taught in civics that the founders gave The South 3 concessions: the 5/8th rule in the census, the APPOINTMENT of two senators from each state, regardless of population and the 10th amendment. Each of these was to prevent the Federal Government from taking away their slaves.

In the past I've heard the "State's Rights" line from many Confederate apologists and have always countered with "State's right to do what exactly?" Glad to know I have actual historians backing me up who feel it's completely appropriate to ask the exact same question because it's a BS line to begin with. Another outstanding video and interview, thanks for bringing it to us. Also, thanks for owning up to your family's past and using it as a way forward for education and discourse.

This is going viral! A proud Kentucky hill billy here. Keep spreading truth guys! Love y'all. God bless!

I'm very lucky. I was raised in Detroit. From the 3rd grade, about 1962, we lived in a mixed, but mostly black area near Wayne State U. I was taught the facts by Mom and also my classmates. We saw Black History filmstrips in the auditorium. I asked questions and mostly I listened. Now I understand how these southern myths in the post civil war world are rationalizations. Yes some people lack information, but others know better. There has been a denial so long people who can't let go are going crazy. Obtuse or delusional, it's unhealthy for everyone.

I grew up being taught the Lost Cause narratives, which I’ve only been unlearning it the past few years and examining American History from a more objective lens. Understanding the Civil War and slavery is in many ways the key to understanding Institutional Racism that permeates so much of our society today. Thank you for this, it was really interesting!

Those slave system states which had less% than 20% slave population remained in the Union as Maryland, Deleware, Kentucky, Missouri and gave more soldiers to the Union than to the Confederacy! The low% slave populated West Virginia sceeded from Virginia in 1863! The less% slave populated County in Mississipi Jones County secceded from The Confederacy and joined to the USA! The less % slave populated County in Alabama Winston Counthy secceded from the Confederacy and joined to the USA! The low% slave populated East Tennessee secceded from the Confederacy and wanted to join to the USA. The low% slave populated Ozark region gave unionist soldiers in Arkansas. The ProConfederate area was the Little Dixie region in Missouri with high % slave population. In Maryland the proconfederacy area was higher slave populated regions. The higher slave populated regions had a strong effect either family, friendship connected or economial connected methods to the white people change to be proconfederate. The non slave holding families had family connection with slave holding families or the two types families were in friendships. The economial connections mean the teachers, lawiers, bussinies men, shop owners, farmers who produced food to the cotton plantations, etc who had not any slaves were connected to the plantation economy. The two groups were proconfederate sentiment against not to have any slaves! The exceptions are few: Kentucky had some counties, where the slave population was higher and the white people were prounionists or some low % slave populated counties as Polk or Sulivan were proconfederate in Tennessee! This shows an strong correlation higher % slaves gave higher % proconfederate white people from county to counties! Unionist white soldiers in the Confederacy ( I do not know the Navy numbers but Rear admiral Farragut arrived from East Teenneessee!) Alabama 2,700 Arkansas 9,000 Florida 1,000 Georgia 2,500 Louisiana 5,000 Mississippi 545 North Carolina 10,000 Tennessee 31,000 Texas 2,000 Virginia and West Virginia 21,000-23,000 The 200 000 colored soldiers and the 100 000 white Southern unionist soldiers had important effect to the triumph!

It was state rights ! The rights to own Slaves !

Thank you for this. I am new to your channel. There was good information in this video. I have shared it with a few others already.

Thank you, sir, for standing on the truth.

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3 great-great grandfathers put their lives for the Union in my line. They obviously lived and here I am. The number of Washington revolutionaries in my line, I still haven't fully counted.

Awesome, great to see you use your platform/celebrity to be the voice of truth and sincerity. Being a part of the new media you showed a sense of responsibility and leadership that will over all far well for your channel when big media looks for next thing to help reach the masses. And I think it’s kool that your distant relative was a know confederate military commander. Was any interesting stories passed down?

This subject appears be in need of more exposure and clarity, and once again you've stepped up Nick, look forward to more from this series.

Thanks for this. I'm circulating it very widely. (I wondered if you were related to that Barksdale.)

I am very glad you did. I had been wondering if you were related to General Barksdale

actually Pragar Institute has a good video debunking lost cause rhetoric.

This was quite good, more like this lol

Thank you son much for the post

Love the episode. Just don't know if it fits in the channel. But hey, your channel, your party 😀

What Mr.Levin Speaks of is what the loss cause evolved into ,with modern thoughts on it. The Very beginnings of the term lost cause was started by a copperhead(Northern Democrat) In an effort to unite, northern and southern Democrats after the war. The copperheads paid southern publishers to print the original loss cause. I don’t have my notes handy, But the original lost cause had theories about the war , why the south lost the war, and was trying to start a race war against black Republicans in the south. Many former confederates spoke out against it.

I think that it would be good to also talk about not only the instilled that goes on in schools but also the pop-culture type of learning that goes on in music and movies and books. I think those who cherish John Wayne movies are going to have trouble with the three under standing the reality of the South and the civil war. It's fascinating thing for me to realize that The narrative of the south permeated to the north so deeply and I'm not sure if it's just school I think that I think are pop culture has a lot to do with that.

Thank you for this video. I have already heard few things regarding this topic, but this is so interesting and informative.

I remember those lost cause text books! I also remember some statements from my 8th grade GA histteacher. He had that lost cause thinking!

Thanks, Nick!

Thank you.

This is very fitting for the problems of today. I actually just finished reading Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave a few days ago. I highly recommend reading it as well as Lincoln’s Virtues: an Ethical Biography. It’s wild you are related to a Confederate leader and you admit it. Obviously, it isn’t your fault what your ancestors did. I always feel nervous to ask African Americans their ancestry since they could have been slaves.

Much of it had to do with position, posture, posing, and placing

We have The Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans to think for a lot of this Lost Cause mythology BS.

You ancestor led " Barksdales charge " , very interesting.

This was an excellent and captivating talk. I really enjoyed. Thanks. 🌟

Thank you for sharing Dr Levin with us, truly so good, thank you 🌺!

Everywhere one goes, they must destroy this myth

I have read Mr Levin's book and recommend it. For a more informal but still well referenced look at these topics, check out Checkmate Lincolnites...😎

I just took a Civil War college course online over COVID. My professor was jumping back and forth on racial and sexist narratives and used the Washington Post as source material alongside historical documents. I could have learned more from a single chapter of any book written by an actual expert than I did from that entire course. I also had a problem with some of the claims this guy made. When I have conversations with Southerners and they say "state's rights", what that usually turns into in the 10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. I do not think this guy should have skipped over that tidbit of information because this issue is still a major issue today with the continuing expansion of the Federal Government of the United States over the last half century while simultaneously becoming less efficient. This issue was addressed by Reagan and is being brought up by senators and congressmen today. Another problem I had was this guy claiming the Civil War itself was a failure and we as a country should have resolved all social issues then and there... First of all, war is war. Second, the Republican Party did do this, and then it all fell apart after the Democratic Party was let in after Reconstruction. Also, this is when the Federal Government started a decades long campaign to destroy the American Indian and Jim Crow stripped African Americans of their rights again. Third, go study Civil War history. The nation was too divided to implement a long term solution and the solution didn;t work. That's what I was taught in school and it sounds way more legitimate than this guy claiming that solving social issues in the middle of a war is more important than winning a war.

The CSA Constitution was a cut-and-paste of the USA Constitution with two major changes, the anscestral based right to own Human Beings and a Presidential Line Item Veto of State's Representatives bills in the Senate and Congress they gave the States the right to own Slaves at the cost of handing over part of their State Sovereignty to the Central Executive branch.

Wilsooooooooooooooooon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nick: Are you familiar with the YT channel "Dan Davis Author"? He has very informative videos about Bronze Age culture, warfare, etc.

Why on earth don't you wear a kepi like Andy? Great vid, man

I can see the sign on the Confederate recruiting center "Enlist and join the lost cause."

States rights equals slavery, PERIOD. The two cannot be separated. Jefferson Davis said in the Spring of 1865 he would accept NO peace plan that didn't include the preservation of slavery.

Here we go.

It is difficult what was the first step when the the Civil War possibility was irreversibily. From my data collection I think to be interesting the prelude was longer and the steps are the next: 1. New England and the Central States became slavery system free. (Northern step) 2. The UK and USA forbade the slave trade in 1807-1808. So except for smuggling the cotton plantation economical system states and the slave system Texas could import slaves from the Border states to decrease the slave population % Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, East Tenneessee, from Appachian region, Ozark region in Arkansas. This the root case of the Border states stayed in the Union, foundation of West Virginia and the 100 000 white volunter Southern unionist soldiers from the Confederacy. (Northern and Southern step T Jefferson president) 3. The original 3 midwest states (Illinois, Indiana and Ohio) were populated in majority with the border state white pioneers from Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Tenneessee and North Carolina) untill 1830. The Central state gave some settler and New England only to Ohio untill 1830. (Lincoln Family is good example). The Southern sociaty lost to North huge man power for increase the Northern future people surpluss to South. 4. Missouri compomise wanted to decide about the future slave system states. I think this was important step to hold Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to be free work states. The Missouri compomise assisted Illinois to be free state definitably in 1844 against the majority of southern settlers. The Central states and New England settlers changed to true Northern states Mid West after 1840 only! This also important step to reach the majority in North. (Northern Southern step) 5. The abolutionis movement became bigger in New England, in East Pennsylvania and in some New England effected Ohio territory (Grant's family). Funny but the first abolutionst newspaper was founded in East Tenneesse! (Northern step) 6. The nullification crisis between Andrew Jackson president and South Carolina in 1832-1833. To show some plantation system states were not interested in a strong American industrial economy opposing import tariffs or keeping them to a minimum. (Southern steps) 7. About 1844 the slave system elite politicians, media workers, plantation owners and those living in the slave economic system of the South, including New York City, but not New York State, realized that the North was growing in population and economic power. The accession of Texas to the slave system thought to be good step to increase the power of the slavery system South. This caused the Mexican American war with the anexion the future California, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, etc. In addition, with the conclusion of the Oregon British Columbia Agreement with the UK, the formation of the territorial size of the USA before the Civil War also takes place. (Southern step) 8. The Southern elite wanted to Annex Mexico some extremist Southern politicians began to dream of a slave empire with a Caribbean region with Mexico and Central America.This will be the Knights of the Golden Circle or other fire eaters in the South.(Southern Step) 9. The Norther Politicians (Lincoln) and some Southern Whigs (Henty Clay) fought for the independent Mexico. Northern politicians and elites assumed a slaveholding conspiracy. (Northern step) 10.The emergence of the Northern Free Land political movement and its demand for a slave economic system in the western territories. Their first success was the founding of the free land of California in 1850 using the Missouri Compromise. (Northern step) 11. UK in 1836, France in 1848, Mexico in 1829 forbade the slavery system, so the Underground Railroad started. (Northern Step) 12. The great compromise of 1850 was to prevent a civil war situation. Henry Clay, Webster, and Stephen Douglas were successful. They swallowed the fugitive slave law for free California in the North. (Northern and Southern step). 13. The great wave of European immigration starting from 1820 and from 1840 gradually brought huge masses of immigrants mainly from German-speaking areas and the UK (Irish people). The majority of immigrants further increases the already larger majority of the North to 1860. (Northern step) 14. Northern abolitionists were annoyed by the fugitive slave law, and as a result, Harriet Becher Stowe wrote her book. The 'Uncle Tom's Cabin" influences the emotional attitude towards the slave system within families through female readers. Men are in politics, but at home they can tell the female members of the family that it is not nice to take their children away from their mothers. The success of the book further pushed the French and UK public opinion towards the opposition to the slave system. (Northern step) 15. The railroad system and the industrilazation became bigger in the North so the demand for industrial protective tariffs became stronger in the North. The southern senators prevent the congressional majority from a protective tariff on imports that help industry growth.(Southern step) 16. Kansas Nebraska act in 1854 caused the possibility of the expansion of the slave system. This caused the disintegration of the Whig party, the weakening of the northern Democratic party, and the formation of the Republican party together with the free land politicians and the mild abolitionists. This made Lincoln a politician again. 17. North and South began to send settlers to Kansas and the north was more populous. At the beging the Little Dixie Dorder Ruffians gerilla actions were able to organize election fraud with the support of the pro-slavery Pierce government, but the congressional majority and the Northern settler majority finally won in 1858. The Border Ruffians faced strong opposition from Northern settlers and incoming radical abolitionists like John Brown. It was a real mini-civil war in Bleeding Kansas, where the minority (pro-slavery) wanted to prevent the interests of the majority with weapons. (Northern and Southern step) 18. The Dred Scott Supreme Court decision prohibited the free North from granting citizenship to ex-slaves. This is certainly a violation of the rights of the (Northern) states. The judges were Southerners or Southern connected. (Southern step) 19. Some Republican became angry with the Dred Scott decision. Seward mentioned as aim for the Republican the total abolution in 1858 . Seward tried to withdraw the opinion of the Republican radical wing, but in doing so he prepared the way for Lincoln to move to the center in 1860.Lincoln mentioned that he did not like the slave system, but he concentrated his political expression on preventing the further spread of the slave system to the western territories. (Northern step) 20. The southern elite propaganda machine used Seward's ill-advised declaration of the total abolition of slavery in the US as a Republican goal from 1858 to incite southern paranoia. (Southern step) 21. The (ultra) Radical John Brown started the Harper Ferry raid. After the fall, the North saw John Brown as a hero, although almost everyone saw John Brown's action as doomed from the start. .(Northern step) 22. The action of John Brown and the post-execution Northern perception of him as a martyr fueled the PARANOIA of Southerners living among the higher % slave population about a slave uprising led by Northern whites. The Southern Propaganda machine (journalists) further increased the equation between John Brown and their Republicans as Abraham Lincoln=John Brown. The action of John Brown and the post-execution Northern perception of him as a martyr fueled the PARANOIA of Southerners living among the higher % slave population about a slave uprising led by Northern whites. The Southern Propaganda machine (journalists) further increased the equation between John Brown and their Republicans as Abraham Lincoln=John Brown. Paranoia was less where the slave population % was lower, so Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia seceded from Virginia. (Southern Step) According to me the 16th step was the most important to begin the drift towards civil war. Stephen Douglas and the supporters of the further expansion of the Slave system are the main ones responsible.There may be a different opinion that the course of events could have been stopped after Bleeding Kansas.

Great video. I think it’s really important to acknowledge that when you have a conversation about the civil war now, you can still hear some of the same points that have been debunked over and over.

I have spent my life in Baltimore. On April 19, 1861 the War of Rebellion arrived in town and "We the People" LOST and the Jesuit indocrination program taught the details of the Civil War. On April 19, 2015, they held an Uprising at the grave of Solomon Etting (Maryland Legislation of 1826) and left a billboard that said "Who dies from a rough ride, the whole damn system." 1862 General Order No. 11 and Lincoln's attempted assassination in Baltimore are usually left out of the story. They used Lincoln as a display for the new death care industry and hosted a Jubilee to the takeover in 1906 & they shadowed the Civil War Musuem with New World Pier at International Circle.

Civil war It would have been lit without pretext

Anyone interested in further study please check out the Abbeville Institute. Excellent stuff.

This is “the won effect” myth from the north.

Not American but from an outsider perspective it seems the war was about centralisation of power by the federation vs state sovereignty in the confederation. These power struggles are a recurring theme through history.

You surprised me with this video. Very informative.

I clicked the like button.......because I did indeed like the video........I also agree with most of what is said here. That being said......I have always struggled with the concept that states rights be diminished as a important fundamental aspect of the war. Simply stating that this is part of the Lost Cause agenda as he did.....does nothing for me intellectually. Obviously slavery was the issue that drove the schism.......obviously it got the headlines......obviously it's moral bankruptcy drove many to the pulpit.....the debating/lecture stage and to the colors. In my own personal research into the CW and it's causes I see a different overall picture. I find it interesting and indeed curious that most Confederate soldier's that marched fought bled and died for the Southern cause didn't own slaves. When I study history I like to put myself in that place.....how I'd think.....feel. I know for myself.....if you or anyone else .....wearing a uniform or a badge or neither of those....and came walking towards me on my property carrying a firearm....I would consider you a threat.....and have a bead on your head or heart at least within a minute or at the very least be holding mine at the ready. I think at the very least.....that's how many Southerners thought. Granted many were die hard racist that had twisted notions of white supremacy and justified slavery. But they were the minority.....though very influential. I find it interesting that the issue of western expansion and of future statehood alignment......whether to be free or slave states once admitted to the Union is mentioned ONLY with regards to the slavery issue.....and NOT the underlying political and economic landscape.....and their evolving changes before the outbreak of bloodshed. For myself......I am not really interested in what I think or believe....I'd rather know the truth......the whole truth. Not mine....or anyone else's opinion. I suppose what I'm saying in part is that I will need to be convinced that some of what is mentioned here is not in fact.....exactly what he alluded to.....something that is a human and an American trait/habit. That is in fact....romanticism.....just from a different angle.

While I did agree, with most of this video, I find it lacking in several key points.... The north, in order to save, their industrial might, enacted legislation such as the Tariff Act which was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln that place huge tariffs on imported goods and as trade with agricultural products, for manufactured goods outside of the United States was the lifeblood of the South....I would say that the north was just as guilty of starting the war as the South was. They both had a lot to lose....

The internet is more of a sargasso sea of historical detritus

Fightin fer our rights!!!!

Is the American Civil War now considered Antiquity? Cuz it's certainly not Middle Ages 😜

Slavery should have never been an institution in America

Americans think the civil war was about emancipating slaves or the institution of slavery, LOL. IMHO the civil war started out as an economic and cultural clash.

The Lost Cause was due to they could not say, your fathers, sons and brothers died to protect slavery. Also, I think most people could not read, so when they got to the war, they didn't have a dog in this fight. That said, their families were not doing good, so they left, to protect their families from the home guard, which was worse than the federals marching through

This sounds more like opinions. Were are the documeted articles and historical writings from the 1800s that you researched? Just wondering.

You can win a Civil War but to truly succeed you must win the peace. You can continue to pound the defeated and never be one again. Or you can honor the defeated for having fought a good fight and welcome them back into your midst as honorable warriors that you are proud to have in your society again. There by truly ending the Civil War and winning it. It is rare for someone with a podium to expound their believes to understand that those statues and monuments were there to give the south it's pride back and not make it feel it was not a second class part of the union. Testimony to that is how the assault on the old confederacy is serving to divide our country again. As with most nations we have a very very difficult time learning from history.

The idea that the civil war was a "good vs. evil" scenario is an ignorant one, influenced by biased modern ideology. To everyone who applies a sole moral argument for the causes of the war (i.e. It was only about slavery), do you you honestly think the average Union soldier was fighting for the slaves? Hell no they weren't. The vast majority didn't care. And do you think there wasnt widespread racism in the northern states too just like the south? Of course there was. And at the time of the war AND after, the native Americans were still being treated horribly by the federal government. So the whole moral argument that the Union were the good guys and the evil Confederacy has zero ground.

Slavery was only legal in the United States for less than one hundred years. Vermont banned slavery on July 2, 1777. Abolishing slavery was being discussed before we even gained our independence. British banks financed the confederate army through Judah p Benjamin, the war treasurer and Secretary for the south. They held the worthless bonds. They also supplied ships and English made guns, and after the war Grant sued Britain for violating their neutrality. And won. Benjamin also moved his family to London before the war, and when Davis was captured, Benjamin was the only one that got away, and fled to London. The newspapers nick named him Judas the traitor..... You got to follow the money to understand any war. Theirs always bankers involved, false flags, ppl getting rich off of ppl killing ppl.

You are awesome.

The myth of Confederate Unity: I think the Confederacy monument removal was mistake, because it was TOO EARLY! First the Southern NOWDAYS sociaty should have faced some interesting facts as forexample. 1. The numbers of the Confederate Army were about 490 000 soldiers and about 100 000 soldiers arrived from the Border States as Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland. So 390 000 soldiers were from the original 11 Confederate States. However the 11 Confederate States gave about 100 000 white volunter soldiers to the USA Army! The 20% percentage of the white soldiers , who fought from the Whole Confederacy for the Union and this requires confronting the past, where they came from? 2. The majority of the 100 000 white volunter soldiers arrived from such territories where the slave economy (Tobbacco or Cotton king) was weak. Moreover these soldiers could have been more but the Northern Army did not reach South Arkansas, Texas unionist areas, Northern Alabama Georgia or West part of North Carolina in 1862-1863. East Tenneesse was LIBERATED by Burnside only in 1863! 3.The 100 000 white Southern soldiers are facts, but similar to German occupied countries in the II. WW were secret prounionism movements in the South, not only secret sympathy for the Unio. Heroes of America or Red Strings, but active prounionist gerilla and bushwacker action in Texas, Alabama, North Carolina or FLORIDA were not only the Little Dixie events in Missouri! I think of such humorouse event, when a West Teenneessee young man wanted to brag about his ancestor to be in the Confederate cavalry regiment under general Forrest. He look for the exact data from the Civil War past and he found his ancestor fought for the UNION in the some number unionist cavalry regiment! He got surpise. I think where the prounionist white volunters arrived from a good indication to show the not slavery economy territories decreased the seccessionist paranoia. OK Hollywood discovered Jones county in Mississippi, East Teenneessee named city about Farragut, but these should have been the first step. Not only Jones county (12.5% slaves) in Mississippi left the Confederacy, but Winston county in Alabama (3.4% slaves) left the Confederacy, moreover Winston county and its neighbore counties hid about 10 000 deserters from the Confederacy Army. Yes the Civil War and Seccession had more main causes, but every cause connected to the slavery: 1. Northern States and population wanted to stop all steps for the spreading of slavery system. To stop the total annexion of Mexico (Lincoln as politician fought for the independent Mexico!), to stop war agains Spain for Cuba and to stop Kansas from becoming a slave state. The Southern Politician felt the free work sociaty would be dominant in the future USA in 10-15 years and the sanate would have free work state sanator majority! 2. The Cotton King economy wanted to change cheap European industrial goods with slavery work produced COTTON! The Southern (slave State) senators were able to prevent the increase of industrial protective tariffs and when the original 7 states left the Unio that time the Morell Tariff was introduced under Buchanan government. The Agrarian slave work Southern states (except for Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland) were not interested in strong industrial develőping. 3. After Dred Scott decision, the North was upset and the Radical wing of Republican party and one of the member Seward openly waved the abolution for the South in 1858. Seward tried to undo it, but it became good propaganda material against the Republicans in South. Lincoln became the candidate as a centrist in Chicago to win against Seward, but the Southern propaganda machine had already classified Lincoln as a radical. 4. The Dred Scott decision changed John Brown to be (ulta)radical. The John Brown plan was not slave revolt, his plan was a super UNDERGROUND RAILWAY to multiply the number of escaped slaves with the guerilla base to be established in the Appalecchian region. To decrease the value of the slaves in the South. The plan was doomed from the start, the border areas had a low percentage of slaves (Later it also had a significant unionist population) and the militias of the border states could have also supported by the regular army. Lincoln was in Kansas and declared that any guerilla action or (Lincoln assumed) slave uprising was doomed to failure. However, the Northern public, influenced by Heniette Becher Stowe's book, revered the executed John Brown as a HERO. The John Brown action started super PARANOIA in the higher% slave populated area for slave revolt which would have been governed by white Northern abolutionists. The newer event was good for the Southern Propaganda machine to wash Lincoln not only Seward but John Brown. Finally John Brown death death brought about the end of slavery by the end of 1865. Nobody knows without Kansas Nebraska act the Civil War escalation would have stopped and the slow volunter abolution which brought 75 000 free colored people beside 87 000 slaves in Maryland it could have became bigger and bigger in the border states?

I was watching this and wondering what Steven Crowder and Prager U have anything to do with the topic at all. The interviewer seems to know nothing about what either of them actually talk about and just made a fool of himself. Which then is latched onto by Lost Causers who will say "see, he's lying!" Seriously, Prager U has several Civil War videos and they openly admit that the issue was slavery. The Lost Causers hate Prager U for that and always attack them because they don't take a Lost Cause position on the war. I have never heard Steven Crowder state that it wasn't either.

My family is from Brazil I have descendants that were slaves and slave owners.

Do a study of the Jesuits involvement in the American revolution and civil war.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again; there's a difference between why the South seceded and why the war happened. People seem to often conflate the two. I'll also say that while it is true that the Confederate declarations of independence are explicit about slavery, that could very well be for constitutional/legal purposes. Sort of how the US put forward the WMD argument for going to war with Iraq. It's not as if the South could lean on the tariff issue. Northern states had repeatedly declared they wouldn't enforce the Fugitive-Slave Act of 1850, it was the North which took the states'-rights angle and not the South, so I imagine the South felt the North's unwillingness to meet their end of the constititional bargain was the best legal leg to stand on.

I'm proud to be a fan of this channel. I like what you are doing.

Thomson shoot out was real

Question. After the civil war was Lincoln planning on sending blacks back to Africa

My early school years were in Florida, and the State's Rights agenda was pushed very hard. It was pictured as an economic struggle.... thankfully I had a maverick local school board that focused on science.

The attitudes in the south to Lincoln's election parallel the reactions of Trump followers to his loss last year to a frightening extent.

I just wanna say first off I'm not too impressed with either political historical camp as it seems they have both sold a partial history to bamboozle the masses. Its interesting to note that before and during the war, european papers have bankers saying that slavery will end and be replaced by controlling wages and the money supply. I found a playlist on the civil war with books that are pre-wilson. A lot of stuff to make sense of. Like most contemporaries described Lincoln as swarthy, dark eyes, dark curly hair, as well as quite a few southern leaders. Also he never really cared about slavery and said as much, and although he did sign the Emancipation Proclamation, he immediately passed legislature to negate it in the south. The 13th amendments doesnt really outlaw slavery, it just says slavery and forced indenture are illegal unless duly convicted of a crime. Believe it or not you have free black units in the south. Yes free. I know wth. Also the northern abolitionists were not really against slavery that much. The narrative they predominantly pushed was white slavery from the south bleeding into the north. Indentures from europe who never attained freedom end up working on plantations with blacks and some have kids with each other. Also some indentured/slave master play into this. So you have this scenario with the 1 drop laws where lots of slaves, to visitors from the north and europe, appeared completely white. Imnot defending anyone it just seems to be true. Also no one wants to talk about “Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America”. Thats an interesting read, free on archive dot . Also we come to find that Alex Haley, the writer of Roots was sued in 1978 for plagiarizing 81 pages of a novel for his novel he tried to pass off as truth. He didnt lose the case, he settled before that happened. So its not just one side selling a story, especially since the great hero Wilson. Then we have to talk really quick about northern ugly laws and blanket statements that when the west opens up it should be white only. Oregon was pretty bad it seems. Anyway this guy has a solid playlist, with some books I just havent seen anyone use. All exploiters all bigots have to go. Pt. 1 - The Untold Cause of The Civil War

Why did Abraham Lincoln wait over 2 years after the war for the proclamation.....

Seriously disappointed that the third front of the Civil War is not mentioned in this discussion, the Gullah/Seminole War front. It is the one key string of events that represent the true narrative of the American Empire at the time. It took about 2-3 for the North to pass the Emancipation Proclamation because it wasnt a priority. Not to mention the servitude of the poor white working class in the South was a model for the Black livelihood in the Northern states. Failed to hear any mention of this exact propoganda failing, evidence of which can be shown in many examples outside of Black Confederates. Take for example the exact model of Chattel Slavery, ownership of a human being and treating them like an animal or to be more specific a robot. White supremacists tried to reprogram the African populous through Eugenics. Regulations declared owners had to house, feed, keep records essentially property taxes and upkeep of animate objects. How long do you think it took people to remember that these were actually people? Not long but the white southerners didn't want to be stuck as serfs again, they just left the old world. What about Jefferson Davis creating a Black Aristocracy after learning the ability they had, then the Government essentially tried to send Ex Slaves back to Africa by creating Liberia. The success of towns like Tulsa (Black Wall Street) were possible because they existed by accessing resources directly from the land. The first Quasi Black Government was in Wilmington NC, which was soon over thrown by an angry white mob. Southern land and values helped Ex Slaves thrive and a Federal government complicit in failing them on every end had nothing to do with freeing them or helping them remain that way.

I'm sorry but I'm listening to you and I'm on I'm appalled because it's it's not like there aren't books out there written by esteemed historians, granted there promoted by Fox News and whatnot but the previous generation of historians touted the lost cause. People who are in their forties like me see the other side of it they've had some kind of academic information sometimes thrown at them that that tells them that the Lost cause was revisionist history. The people in their 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s they're listening to Jean was John Wayne in their head and then it gets reinforced by gods and generals movie but came out more recently within the last 10 years. It was full of Lost cause I mean it was a lost cause movie. For fanatics of the civil war, they read anything they can get in their hands on that supports the old lost cause narrative.

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If one traces the origins back far enough, it can be shown that with the adoption of new technology of the time, ( the.cotton gin) this permitted a greater exploitation of the slave system to produce great wealth to the southern agriculturists. Such wealth desired expansion of such resources into the new territories. It also gave rise to an expansion of one of the great lies of the culture. That was a racist delineation of competence. And the promotion of fear to the lower class white population of the southern states. Such attitudes brought about the Constitutional crisis regarding States Rights”, a notion that even today is used for the promotion of all types of agendas.

It was more than slavery

Have to say I envy you having William Barksdale as an ancestor. His defense of Fredericksburg was phenomenal. It's so easy to impose 21st century morals on the 19th century. Levin's comments gave me nothing above the what one can expect from a man from Massachusetts: plenty of blanket generalizations with no in-depth research and many half-truths. We'll have to turn to European sources for objective research into this subject. At I don't have to be concerned about losing my tenure.

All in all, the more I know of history the more horrifying the picture of that reality becomes. Real facts ARE at our fingertips like never before. This is an existential threat to those who have bought the self congratulatory kneejerk reaction to failure and guilt ... In front of God and everybody. I have so much more to say about this, it weighs on me. BLM 👍

One can almost imagine that the war was started by a Southern invasion given this causation.

Wow...the slant on this video is so bad my TV just about fell off the wall. You project much no? The discussion went way off the rail from historical fact to historical disconnect fast.

What is the name of this channel?

I met a black gentleman named Nelson Winbush several years ago who was a retired public school teacher. He was also a life member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and, at the time was doing public talks about black Confederates. His grandfather served in the Confederate army under Nathan Bedford Forrest and he was quite proud of the fact. I wonder if your guest interviewed him?

I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing that Kevin Levin wouldn't see eye to eye with Mark Levin.

Ok great video but… this dude really named Kevin Levin… why did his mom do that?

You're descended from a confederate general killed at Gettysburg? Wow. Slavery was an awful practice unfortunate he supported it . but that aside the fact that he was a big part of history is incredible, you should be proud of that regardless of what side he was on. Really an incredible story thank you for sharing

How the hell did crowder cause butt hurt over here?! Whatever it was you should steer clear of Dane Calloway 🤣 So glad my family got here in the 1880’s so I don’t have to worry about this.