Democrats haven't changed much in their hypocrisy even century & a 1/2 later:) Mind as a Blighty limey I couldn't give a 5 finger shuffle. Amazing USA politics & courts are still as ridiculous as ever. Worse thing Britain ever did was listen to the continental's that listened to yank politics for a format. Though USA politics are the mess they are due to the continentals. History is always more contrived then what anyone could make up
the ending of the video though : *"it may be that the arc of the moral universe ultimately bends towards justice but that path is not made smooth by destiny, only by concerted will"* honestly a reminder that we all need! thank you!
We need to remember that in the US at the time a majority in the country were against direct ending of slavery and the civil rights movement at first. You can’t just sit back and expect things to be good. You gotta fight for it and be willing to support those doing it.
The US Navy cruiser USS Chancellorsville, named after a Confederate victory, just got renamed to the USS Robert Smalls. It may be bad luck to rename/rechristen your ship, but this one is pretty damn understandable and worthy imo
like the confederacy themselves said "we are doing this because of slavery" it could not be more clear, also the whole "states rights" thing is extra dumb when you realize basically the only difference between the confederate and us constitution was it was illegal for any state to pass any law restricting slavery, the north literally had more states rights on the subject
@@seelcudoom1, not really, no. If you actually read the documents in full, it has less to do with them trying to defend slavery and more to do with the North blatantly ignoring the law and applying double standards over their obsession over ending slavery. In other words, the south seceded because the north, in their view, was perverting and destroying the republic to get their own way - and only their way - on any political matter.
@@Noah_Levy, no. Moving the goalposts would require for me to have already established one to begin with. Also, my view is that the entire perception of the conflict is based entirely on a selective reading of the primary texts while ignoring the bulk of what was being discussed that led to them seceding from the union. Namely, the south seceded because they felt that the north was abusing the Republic for their own interests while the south’s interests were being outright ignored.
Oh heck yeah! Robert Smalls is one of my favorite figures in Black History. Escaped to freedom, served in congress, fought the confederacy, and was the reason Lincoln decided to allow black people to serve in the Union military! Dude is incredible and yet for a lot of people he's probably completely unheard of. Like Clair Patterson Cecilia Payne or Bayard Rustin
@bastiat So according to your reply, you would support doing away with black history month then, correct? Also, calling someone "centrist" in an attempt at insulting them is an odd choice as it is not even an insult to 99% of the population.
I am a TA in American History 100 at my college which covers 1500-1876. I will definitely be mentioning him in class this week as we cover notable figures from the Civil War period. Excellent video, I plan to show it as well!!
I am genuinely terrified of what Holywood would do to Smalls' history, even if I'm always down to a good ol' fashioned staged naval battle (guess I can relate to the romans in that particular subject)
The original plan for reconstruction is being lenient to the South while affirming the 13th Amendment. Lincoln said it best in his Second Inaugural Address: With malice towards none, with charity to all we will bind the wounds of this nation. The reason why Reconstruction goes bad is that after Lincoln's death, the Radical Republicans - led by Thaddeus Stevens - enacted a more repressive form of Reconstruction, namely denying every state that joined the Confederacy the rights under the Constitution unless they agree to drop their racism; should they refuse, the Federal Army is to force them to drop the racism. This naturally is unacceptable to the Southerners. Terrorist groups like the KKK were born to spread terror and death in the occupied states. In Washington, giving the freedman their due is stymied by Andrew Johnson - a Democrat who opposed Lincoln's policies - who until his death thinks that it's not Washington's job to help them and vetoed every bill aimed at that. Along with a breakdown of order in the occupied states and political standstill in Washington, Reconstruction is a bitter memory for everyone involved...
And its a rather frustrating subject that some people seem to think that after the civil war came civil rights movement and everyone are already sunshines and rainbows, which is a poor teaching of history on the US' part
"Too lightly" The north put half of my people under martial law for a decade for the actions of an aristocratic elite they created,All this after they burned our homes to the ground in a war The other half were put on a reservation and driven to extinction for daring to fight for freedom from American (mostly Northern) expansion into their lands It left scars on our society that are still in living memory. Things like bushwars against the klan and panthers in the 70s and 80s or our suspicious nature towards the government are all examples Dont think for a second the north was "Too Light" they failed to unite a nation, they failed to forcibly unite 2 peoples and now they are failing where we in Dixie have finally succeeded. The most segregated states are in _the north_ , the most racially motivated crimes are in _the north_ .
@@jaushuagrahamthefloridaman1124 The "north" has higher punishments for hate crimes, higher incarceration rates, higher reporting rates, and a higher population overall.
One of the reasons I hate Lost Cause Revisionism is that it glorified people who defended slavery while erasing actual heroes like this man from the textbooks. Smalls, not Robert E. Lee, should get statues all across the South!
Same reason Danny Glover has been working for decades to get a biopic of Toussaint Louverteur made: studios don't think movies focused on black history can be profitable.
No we have to wait to the woke generation of Hollywood die out. Unless you have Mel Gibson do it then I'm all for it. Everyone else will make it so ridiculously bad and make every single white person evil . It's boring and bad taste
We have to keep going. We may not be sailing over literal mines in dark waters but we still have to chart our path with will, care and passion if we're ever going to truly make up for the injustice this man and millions like him suffered. Because we can never repay them and their descendants for the system we have made for them. We just have to keep pushing. Hell or high water I will die in a less racist world than I was born into.
Wow, I had heard about his escape by boat I had no idea what he got up to later. I also had no idea how terrifyingly undemocratic Hayes' election was. Wild stuff.
Rutherford B Hayes is one of those forgotten presidents who turns out to have been less forgettable once you actually learn about him, even if only for his role in ending reconstruction
Nobody bothered checking back then, and nobody cared who they were voting for. You could go to a bar and buy a round for anybody who votes for X candidate and they'd do it five times over. Now we have larger populations so while you could theoretically do that, the potential voter would be sobered up by the time they reached the front of the line a second time, rendering the exercise pointless.
Very few people talk about what happened after he bought his house after the war. They prefer to tie it up as a nice little story about a slave gaining freedom. It's harsh but people need to hear the injustice he suffered after the civil war
People who don't know about American Political History are going to get a culture shock when they learn the difference between "Political Parties" and "Political Ideology" and how many people in the US still don't know it to this day considering which party was Conservative/Right Wing and which was Liberal/Progressive/Left Wing back in the Civil War
In the interest of further educating people on history, as I think a lot of people in this channel might be interested in, might I add that something called "the party switch" happened. And Knowing Better, a channel cited in this very video, has a video about it: ua-cam.com/video/MwuFIJlY7fU/v-deo.html&ab_channel=KnowingBetter
This makes me wonder: have we got a video on Benjamin “Spoons” Butler yet? Because, if you know anything about Benjamin “The Beast” Butler, his story would fit right in with Jack’s catalogue lmao
The ending remarks were some of your best lines ever! And I love that sneaky Münster reference. 😏 PS didn't History House Productions make a video about this guy? Darn, I miss that channel.
You might want to look into a dutch admiral named Michiel de Ruyter, as he had an interesting live including weird acts like covering his ship in butter to make pirates slip aand raiding a british port and stealing a part of a ship for a museum.
I have lived in Beaufort my entire life basically and only knew about him from a few road names for the longest time. I am 22 and only found out about who he really was like a couple of years ago.
@@major_kukri2430, his exploits didn’t change the course of the war much, since the union army was defeated at Secessionsville, forcing them to fight an absolutely long, painful campaign to try to take Charleston.
@@MatthewChenault I don't care if it didn't change the course of the war. I don't even think smalls was looking to change the course of the war. All he wanted was freedom. He got it and became a greater man than any of the sub human slavers. Also I don't care if the union lost a small battle. They won the war and forced unconditional surrender unto the traitors. As for you, I've seen you posting around. I know you're a lost causer. Just know that decent people do not feel sympathy to the traitors. They deserved what happened to them.
You know those projects you have to do where you write an essay or something like that about a famous African American, I am doing one on this guy because he is awesome. The literal definition of an underdog.
Jack, could you do James Brooke? He was a white, english-descent sailor but later becoming the Raja Putih (White King) of Sarawak in Borneo island. Since you not covered Southeast Asia yet, I think it would be good for your next video
I remember the "Behind the Bastards" podcast did a two-parter on him. That man was *WILD*, the type of con-artist for whom somehow everything happens at the right place at the right time to make him come out on top. And in his case, "coming out on top" meant ending up in control of an entire country.
Do you realize it would be messed up if the first time Jack covers Southeast Asia, its not about one of our(Southeast Asians) indigenous rulers but a White, English dude? Asia hated European Colonials as much as Africa did, ya know.
@@KitchenSinkSoup Better acting, better writing, better visuals than anything any woke director would do. There is no movie thats 100% accurate but to say the left who have made movies in the last 10 years are worthy is an insult.
John Brown? That’s an odd way of spelling “cringe,” but okay. Also, his best contribution to society was being executed, since he was better off dead than being alive and murdering innocent people.
Can you do Sir Robert Carey? The man who did a crazy-long ride from London to Edinburgh so he could be the first to tell James VI of Scotland of the death of Elizabeth I of England.
You should do more videos on black congressmen, or some more on the times between the civil war and civil rights in the USA. Would open a lot more eyes to that history
Somehow youtube not only waited a day to recommend this vid to me... It also nvr even mentioned your last vid you uploaded >.> Gods i detest youtubes recommended sometimes; just let me watch more new stuff from the same ppl and stop hidin it from me.
With the amount of hatred that whites possess for non-whites plus the economic imbalances in the nation, a second Civil War would have surely broken out
Its always amazed me how the confederate sympathizers/southern romanticists always forget the harem of slave women and then the slave/slave master are forced to work the fields...sick.stuff
Amazing video as always. What is your source for that switch to Lincoln's head from them dastardly democrats? It isn't even in the threadbare 1876 United States presidential election in South Carolina wikipedia article.
"The Republicans who controlled Congress then said the whole election debacle could be solved by insinuating the Vice President had the power to decide which votes could be counted." Hm, where have I heard that before?
Idk if it's mentioned in the video (I always read comments too early) Notorious B.I.G. other name was Biggie Smalls and it was after this man Robert Smalls
Great video. I would though point out that while the compromise is what directly ended reconstruction it was a foregone conclusion regardless of who won bc naturally a Tilden Presidency would have doomed reconstruction, which is something that Tilden fanboys seem to ignore as if Hayes did this in a vacuum. The North politically lost interest bc of the panic of 1873 and the Democrats dominated the 1874 midterms and thus controlled the House in 1875 for the first time in 16 years.
Imagine if Robert Smalls HAD been a contender in the 1876 election. Even if he didn't win the fact that he would have been the first black Presidential candidate as well as a former slave would have been an even wilder turn of fate.
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Democrats haven't changed much in their hypocrisy even century & a 1/2 later:)
Mind as a Blighty limey I couldn't give a 5 finger shuffle.
Amazing USA politics & courts are still as ridiculous as ever.
Worse thing Britain ever did was listen to the continental's that listened to yank politics for a format.
Though USA politics are the mess they are due to the continentals.
History is always more contrived then what anyone could make up
Damn... we went for 144 years W I T H O U T election silliness of that level of craziness? Well it was good run that's for sure.
8:44
I really want a source for this one, please!
Plz, tell me there's a US Navy ship named after him.
I loved your video Jack. Your the snarkiest history UA-camr I know. And I meant that as a compliment.
the ending of the video though :
*"it may be that the arc of the moral universe ultimately bends towards justice but that path is not made smooth by destiny, only by concerted will"*
honestly a reminder that we all need! thank you!
We need to remember that in the US at the time a majority in the country were against direct ending of slavery and the civil rights movement at first.
You can’t just sit back and expect things to be good. You gotta fight for it and be willing to support those doing it.
@@Jimbo55151 Progress is possible, but you have to fight tooth and nail!
The US Navy cruiser USS Chancellorsville, named after a Confederate victory, just got renamed to the USS Robert Smalls. It may be bad luck to rename/rechristen your ship, but this one is pretty damn understandable and worthy imo
I don’t understand why a navy would ever champion a name regarding one of their former enemies.
Imagine unironically thinking that the South didn't secede over slavery
like the confederacy themselves said "we are doing this because of slavery" it could not be more clear, also the whole "states rights" thing is extra dumb when you realize basically the only difference between the confederate and us constitution was it was illegal for any state to pass any law restricting slavery, the north literally had more states rights on the subject
Imagine thinking they did secede purely over slavery?
@@seelcudoom1, not really, no. If you actually read the documents in full, it has less to do with them trying to defend slavery and more to do with the North blatantly ignoring the law and applying double standards over their obsession over ending slavery.
In other words, the south seceded because the north, in their view, was perverting and destroying the republic to get their own way - and only their way - on any political matter.
@@MatthewChenault Nice, moving goalposts.
@@Noah_Levy, no. Moving the goalposts would require for me to have already established one to begin with.
Also, my view is that the entire perception of the conflict is based entirely on a selective reading of the primary texts while ignoring the bulk of what was being discussed that led to them seceding from the union.
Namely, the south seceded because they felt that the north was abusing the Republic for their own interests while the south’s interests were being outright ignored.
Oh heck yeah! Robert Smalls is one of my favorite figures in Black History. Escaped to freedom, served in congress, fought the confederacy, and was the reason Lincoln decided to allow black people to serve in the Union military! Dude is incredible and yet for a lot of people he's probably completely unheard of.
Like Clair Patterson
Cecilia Payne
or Bayard Rustin
@bastiat So according to your reply, you would support doing away with black history month then, correct?
Also, calling someone "centrist" in an attempt at insulting them is an odd choice as it is not even an insult to 99% of the population.
@Mike He is a Black man... and he is history... a major part of history...
@@ItsLunaRegina Black history is American history.
@@TransportSupremo False. American history is black history.
@@TransportSupremo also, not every black person is american. you're being foolish.
Slightly disappointed there’s no “you’re killing me smalls” joke but considering the subject matter it’s understandable
Thankfully not. Anyone who says that is instantly annoying as hell
EVERYONE NEEDS MORE ROBERT SMALLS CONTENT
I am a TA in American History 100 at my college which covers 1500-1876. I will definitely be mentioning him in class this week as we cover notable figures from the Civil War period. Excellent video, I plan to show it as well!!
Much appreciated!
Ngl, buying the estate of your former master is the ultimate CHAD power move
Why the shit hasn't someone made this into a movie, with loads of historically inaccurate gratuitous ship fights
I am genuinely terrified of what Holywood would do to Smalls' history, even if I'm always down to a good ol' fashioned staged naval battle (guess I can relate to the romans in that particular subject)
Impossible. The republicans would have to be the good guys.
@@thenewdarkmatter they would hire leonardo dicaprio to play him
Don't forget lots of explosions and sexy actresses wearing push-up bra style corsets.
@@StephensCrazyHour So... The Union as this point would have to be the good guys?
Reconstruction is such a depressing subject.
The Americans really did let off the traitorous slavers too lightly.
The original plan for reconstruction is being lenient to the South while affirming the 13th Amendment. Lincoln said it best in his Second Inaugural Address: With malice towards none, with charity to all we will bind the wounds of this nation. The reason why Reconstruction goes bad is that after Lincoln's death, the Radical Republicans - led by Thaddeus Stevens - enacted a more repressive form of Reconstruction, namely denying every state that joined the Confederacy the rights under the Constitution unless they agree to drop their racism; should they refuse, the Federal Army is to force them to drop the racism.
This naturally is unacceptable to the Southerners. Terrorist groups like the KKK were born to spread terror and death in the occupied states. In Washington, giving the freedman their due is stymied by Andrew Johnson - a Democrat who opposed Lincoln's policies - who until his death thinks that it's not Washington's job to help them and vetoed every bill aimed at that. Along with a breakdown of order in the occupied states and political standstill in Washington, Reconstruction is a bitter memory for everyone involved...
I remember back in high school I cried after doing the assigned reading on Reconstruction
And its a rather frustrating subject that some people seem to think that after the civil war came civil rights movement and everyone are already sunshines and rainbows, which is a poor teaching of history on the US' part
"Too lightly"
The north put half of my people under martial law for a decade for the actions of an aristocratic elite they created,All this after they burned our homes to the ground in a war
The other half were put on a reservation and driven to extinction for daring to fight for freedom from American (mostly Northern) expansion into their lands
It left scars on our society that are still in living memory. Things like bushwars against the klan and panthers in the 70s and 80s or our suspicious nature towards the government are all examples
Dont think for a second the north was "Too Light" they failed to unite a nation, they failed to forcibly unite 2 peoples and now they are failing where we in Dixie have finally succeeded. The most segregated states are in _the north_ , the most racially motivated crimes are in _the north_ .
@@jaushuagrahamthefloridaman1124 The "north" has higher punishments for hate crimes, higher incarceration rates, higher reporting rates, and a higher population overall.
One of the reasons I hate Lost Cause Revisionism is that it glorified people who defended slavery while erasing actual heroes like this man from the textbooks. Smalls, not Robert E. Lee, should get statues all across the South!
Nah
@@ItsLunaRegina all your comments on this channel are racist whinging lmao get a life
@@ItsLunaRegina yeah.
Why not both?
@@midshipman8654 Because fuck those Confederate losers, that's why
WHY ISN'T THIS A MOVIE/MINI SERIES?! I NEED THIS TO BE ONE NOW.
Same reason Danny Glover has been working for decades to get a biopic of Toussaint Louverteur made: studios don't think movies focused on black history can be profitable.
That's better than having black vikings or Carthaginians
@@eldorados_lost_searcher They know they can skip to UA-cam or Netflix right? I mean if Black Cleo can make it why not real history?
A company called Legion M is working to get one made. However, it's a start-up studio, so it may take some time
2:17 the fact that you added a yellow bar to know when the Ad ends. makes me respect each time more
Nothing better than a jack rackam video hot off the press
Im pretty sure that its been said before, but GIVE THIS GUY A FILM!
No we have to wait to the woke generation of Hollywood die out.
Unless you have Mel Gibson do it then I'm all for it. Everyone else will make it so ridiculously bad and make every single white person evil . It's boring and bad taste
Staring Micheal B. Jordan
@@ZillyWhale Absolutley not.. Michael B Jordan blowss
We have to keep going. We may not be sailing over literal mines in dark waters but we still have to chart our path with will, care and passion if we're ever going to truly make up for the injustice this man and millions like him suffered. Because we can never repay them and their descendants for the system we have made for them. We just have to keep pushing. Hell or high water I will die in a less racist world than I was born into.
🫥
What if we settle for just being racist against the right targets this time? I mean Eastern Europeans have earned it.
Excellent comment, just replace we with they.
@@stehfreejesseah7893 No. WE. WE have to keep going. Globally, as a society, every single last one of us has to fight for a better tommorrow.
@@samwill7259 sure we do now, be we were not involved then.
Wow, I had heard about his escape by boat I had no idea what he got up to later. I also had no idea how terrifyingly undemocratic Hayes' election was. Wild stuff.
Rutherford B Hayes is one of those forgotten presidents who turns out to have been less forgettable once you actually learn about him, even if only for his role in ending reconstruction
@@JackRackam Yeah, I'm definitely not going to forget about him now.
@@JackRackam The ironic part is, Hayes is probably more recognized in Paraguay than his own country.
@@wildfire9280 oh that's right he was the Paraguay guy too!
@@JackRackam He was, in fact, the *Paraguy.*
“101% of voters were accounted that year”
Pardon?
Clearly too many former slaves doing a voter fraud!
-Unreconstructed Southerners, prob
It wouldn't be a pre Voting Rights Act southern election if it wasn't filled with obvious domestic terrorism, voter intimidation, and fraud.
Nobody bothered checking back then, and nobody cared who they were voting for. You could go to a bar and buy a round for anybody who votes for X candidate and they'd do it five times over.
Now we have larger populations so while you could theoretically do that, the potential voter would be sobered up by the time they reached the front of the line a second time, rendering the exercise pointless.
@@prestonjones1653
If anything, voter fraud is less prevalent and more difficult to pull off these days than in the past
@@warlordofbritannia Kinda hard to prove that and the proof otherwise, says otherwise. Dick Gregory said as much.
Very few people talk about what happened after he bought his house after the war. They prefer to tie it up as a nice little story about a slave gaining freedom. It's harsh but people need to hear the injustice he suffered after the civil war
It is a CRIME that this is the first time I've heard of him.
Where are the statues of this legend!?
Why this guy doesn’t have 5 different movies about him already fricking ASTOUNDS ME!
People who don't know about American Political History are going to get a culture shock when they learn the difference between "Political Parties" and "Political Ideology" and how many people in the US still don't know it to this day considering which party was Conservative/Right Wing and which was Liberal/Progressive/Left Wing back in the Civil War
He is gonna have to do a video on the party switch for context.
In the interest of further educating people on history, as I think a lot of people in this channel might be interested in, might I add that something called "the party switch" happened. And Knowing Better, a channel cited in this very video, has a video about it: ua-cam.com/video/MwuFIJlY7fU/v-deo.html&ab_channel=KnowingBetter
Well yeah, the political flip flop of the 1920s isn’t talked about for a reason. Because it makes both parties look bad.
@@stehfreejesseah7893 The party switch is the biggest turd I have ever heard
@@pudding_pot_pie9523 doesn’t matter regional voting patterns follow demographics which clearly flipped
I first learnt about Robert Smalls not through school, but through a show called Drunk History. Thank God for Jack Rackam and Drunk History.
This makes me wonder: have we got a video on Benjamin “Spoons” Butler yet? Because, if you know anything about Benjamin “The Beast” Butler, his story would fit right in with Jack’s catalogue lmao
Benjamin Butler was pretty tyrannical.
@@MatthewChenault
On paper, sure
In practice, his military governorship of New Orleans wasn’t that exceptional (for good or ill)
@@warlordofbritannia, nah, he was a dick.
0/10
Prefer Ulysses S. Grant.
Benjamin "Badass" Butler. Benjamin "Stopping Yellow Fever" Butler.
@@lucykwiatek5159
Benjamin “If slaves really are property, they’re now my contraband-y” Butler
Robert Smalls, what an absolute legend. One of America's greats
thank you for adding the yellow line, best solution I have seen yet
I'm definitely going to steal (and adequately source) that last sentence, truly poignant!
The ending remarks were some of your best lines ever!
And I love that sneaky Münster reference. 😏
PS didn't History House Productions make a video about this guy? Darn, I miss that channel.
First!
Commendable, sir!
You might want to look into a dutch admiral named Michiel de Ruyter, as he had an interesting live including weird acts like covering his ship in butter to make pirates slip aand raiding a british port and stealing a part of a ship for a museum.
Never clicked on a video so fast!
I have lived in Beaufort my entire life basically and only knew about him from a few road names for the longest time. I am 22 and only found out about who he really was like a couple of years ago.
finally the full episode and story of this guy
also Robert Smalls to the confederates while escaping with their ship: So long suckers!
The Confederate forces: “Okay, Ni- “
@@MatthewChenault Smalls: *steals entire ship and gives it to the union* "ok lost causers"
@@major_kukri2430
John Mosby: *Steals a Union general.* “Lol, okay yankee.”
@@major_kukri2430, his exploits didn’t change the course of the war much, since the union army was defeated at Secessionsville, forcing them to fight an absolutely long, painful campaign to try to take Charleston.
@@MatthewChenault I don't care if it didn't change the course of the war. I don't even think smalls was looking to change the course of the war. All he wanted was freedom. He got it and became a greater man than any of the sub human slavers. Also I don't care if the union lost a small battle. They won the war and forced unconditional surrender unto the traitors.
As for you, I've seen you posting around. I know you're a lost causer. Just know that decent people do not feel sympathy to the traitors. They deserved what happened to them.
You know those projects you have to do where you write an essay or something like that about a famous African American, I am doing one on this guy because he is awesome. The literal definition of an underdog.
Jack, could you do James Brooke? He was a white, english-descent sailor but later becoming the Raja Putih (White King) of Sarawak in Borneo island. Since you not covered Southeast Asia yet, I think it would be good for your next video
Yeah,it would be interesting
Sounds like a awesome video topic
I remember the "Behind the Bastards" podcast did a two-parter on him. That man was *WILD*, the type of con-artist for whom somehow everything happens at the right place at the right time to make him come out on top. And in his case, "coming out on top" meant ending up in control of an entire country.
Do you realize it would be messed up if the first time Jack covers Southeast Asia, its not about one of our(Southeast Asians) indigenous rulers but a White, English dude? Asia hated European Colonials as much as Africa did, ya know.
Yay, he got a full episode!!
6:50,
That's awesome that he was able to witness the return of Ft. Sumner to the USA.
OK I am not American, still amazed how I hear about Robert Smalls for the first time 😮.
Looking at this and then after watching Cypher’s take on Good Lord Bird, now I want Jack to talk about John Brown
This is outrageous!
*Please make a video on Berke Khan, the mongol ruler of the Golden Horde.*
Man. This needs to be one of the Age of Empires 3 Historical Battles!
They should make a movie about this
Only Mel Gibson can direct it and write it though. Everyone else will make it woke and LGBT friendly 🙄
@@Barthaneous34 Yes, Mel Gibson. Well known for his very historically accurate masterpieces Braveheart, Apocalypto and Hacksaw Ridge.
@@KitchenSinkSoup Better acting, better writing, better visuals than anything any woke director would do. There is no movie thats 100% accurate but to say the left who have made movies in the last 10 years are worthy is an insult.
@@Barthaneous34 So it isn't about historical accuracy its about ideological content? Very Soviet of you comrade.
Jordan Peele needs to make a movie about him.
Almost like we don’t learn from the past we are doomed to repeat it. Time is circles.
I still want a movie about this guy :(
Amazing episode, thanks!
Loved this dive into Smalls, loved the olde timey Matt Murdock cameo. Nicely done.
You are now obligated to do a video on John Brown.
Why
John Brown? That’s an odd way of spelling “cringe,” but okay.
Also, his best contribution to society was being executed, since he was better off dead than being alive and murdering innocent people.
@@juan-ij1le because he's a certified madlad and relevant to the topic of slavery in the USA.
As someone who grew up in the Low Country of SC this episode was a real treat you have no idea how many time I'd do a report of Robert Smalls
that closing line though
I’m from beaufort South Carolina lol I’ve heard this story hundreds of times
Weird fact my home town was the home town to the confederate general who was in charge of Charleston Harbor. We are both from Ohio.
Bushrod Johnson?
@@warlordofbritannia Roswell Ripley
Ohio, the land of incompetency in war.
@@MatthewChenault Sherman was from Ohio, wasn't he?
@@Significantpower, the war criminal? Yes, the war criminals was from Ohio.
I'm doing a project on Robert Smalls, not sure why he isn't more famous.
We NEED a movie about this man.
Why isn't there a movie about this guy
Can you do Sir Robert Carey? The man who did a crazy-long ride from London to Edinburgh so he could be the first to tell James VI of Scotland of the death of Elizabeth I of England.
You should make a video about João Cândido, the black admiral
Great you cover him!
When John Paul Jones?
2 miniutes in? Time for an Intro!
You should do more videos on black congressmen, or some more on the times between the civil war and civil rights in the USA. Would open a lot more eyes to that history
Voynich Manuscript was a nice touch :D
Who else is here after the missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville was renamed the USS Robert Smalls?
Thank you.
He is this weird combination of maverick brilliance and controlled studying
This was very well made
11:53
Pretty funky (not just in this video but many places) that my district is literally the symbol for gerrymandering
I live inside of that dragon
10:23 Do I remember that guy from Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter?
God save the Union!
Great piece of history
Somehow youtube not only waited a day to recommend this vid to me... It also nvr even mentioned your last vid you uploaded >.> Gods i detest youtubes recommended sometimes; just let me watch more new stuff from the same ppl and stop hidin it from me.
For some reason UA-cam wants to spread the news of Robert Smalls far and wide in short form, but not in a full video 😄
How different the US would be if reconstruction remained enforced
With the amount of hatred that whites possess for non-whites plus the economic imbalances in the nation, a second Civil War would have surely broken out
Great stuff, about one of the most interesting people to have ever lived.
You should do a video on the French composer, Erik Satie. He would be right up your alley.
Jack, I would like to ask, have you read EMPHYRIO? The author, Jack Vance was something of a character.
8:50 made me laugh out load. But damn, this period is messed up.
Starts at 3:47
Its always amazed me how the confederate sympathizers/southern romanticists always forget the harem of slave women and then the slave/slave master are forced to work the fields...sick.stuff
If you ever visit the Low Country, go to the National Park dedicated to him in Beaufort
Solid end quote
Amazing video as always. What is your source for that switch to Lincoln's head from them dastardly democrats? It isn't even in the threadbare 1876 United States presidential election in South Carolina wikipedia article.
THIS video convinced me to finally become a subscriber! ...and that is without laughing even once.
Auto like for jack rackman!!!
YES, FINALLY A VIDEO ON THIS MAN
I did my first ever history project on Smalls in 3rd grade
Based 3rd grader.
11:52
Um, isn’t that a bunch Massachusetts towns?
Yup, it's a political cartoon from the time when the term gerrymander was coined
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Ah
Probably would have made more sense to put the electoral map of South Carolina, but I get the idea 😂
15 is a spinster in south carolina.
9:02 well that's just unprecedented.
"The Republicans who controlled Congress then said the whole election debacle could be solved by insinuating the Vice President had the power to decide which votes could be counted."
Hm, where have I heard that before?
Im pretty sure the general recruiting in the south recruited one of my family bc he was apart of the unions Alabama unit, the 1st Calvary I think
Idk if it's mentioned in the video (I always read comments too early) Notorious B.I.G. other name was Biggie Smalls and it was after this man Robert Smalls
I really don't get racists' mentalities. Imagine getting mad over the mere existence of another group of people
Great video. I would though point out that while the compromise is what directly ended reconstruction it was a foregone conclusion regardless of who won bc naturally a Tilden Presidency would have doomed reconstruction, which is something that Tilden fanboys seem to ignore as if Hayes did this in a vacuum. The North politically lost interest bc of the panic of 1873 and the Democrats dominated the 1874 midterms and thus controlled the House in 1875 for the first time in 16 years.
How did slaves get their surnames?
From the people who bought them.
About time we had some more African American representation on this show. Thank you very much
The America this is a pattern thing. Dodgy elections 1800s = Yes - Dodgy elections 1900s = No - Dodgy elections 2000s.= Yes .... Hmmmmm
make a video on basil II
Imagine if Robert Smalls HAD been a contender in the 1876 election.
Even if he didn't win the fact that he would have been the first black Presidential candidate as well as a former slave would have been an even wilder turn of fate.
Still waiting jack