Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin and other epic founding fathers were strongly against slavery. Thomas Jefferson wrote an outright condemnation of slavery into the Declaration, but it was of course written out since too many found it to be problematic.
@@nobonespursTo be fair, he seemed to want to free them when he was older, but he couldn't because he was in debt and so if he tried to free them, they would be seized by his debtors.
If the founding fathers truly believe in freedom they would've took more of a bold stance against slavery. It would've shown they had conviction in their beliefs in freedom and liberty.
Whilst the founding fathers didn't exactly do much to prevent the civil war from happening it didn't mean that it was inevitable. The Dred Scott case and the disastrous presidency of James Buchanan directly lead to the civil war as well as the event of 'Bleeding Kansas' due to the failed efforts of the Missuori Compromise didn't help as well. The country was certainly divided but it especially still is today with our current political climate which doesn't mean we're going to Civil War however these series of unfortunate events was the match that ultimately ignited the flames of the American Civil War.
The civil war was inevitable ever since the tariffs of abominations. The south was hurt badly by these tariffs. They could not sell as much of their products losing money and they had to pay more for the manufactured goods they needed. Also they had to purchase manufactured goods from northern factories because of the shortage of imports. The south called the tariffs of 1828 the Tariffs of Abominations.
@@gregl.7465 Wrong. That’s completely the truth. The south tried to leave in 1828 and was convinced to stay. 70% of the south didn’t have slavery. It’s misleading, wrong, and a new myth to say slavery was the whole point of the war. Both sides had it and it wasn’t banned until the last year of the war as a military tactic. “We Are Fighting for Independence, Not Slavery”. - Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy to Edward Kirk 1864 “I worked night and day for 12 years to prevent the war, but I could not. The north was mad, blind,would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.” - Confederate President Jefferson Davis “In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country.” - Robert E Lee 1856 “While we see the Course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who Sees the end” - Robert E Lee 1856 “I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interests of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this, as regards Virginia especially, that I would cheerfully have lost all I have lost by the war, and have suffered all I have suffered, to have this object attained.” - Robert E Lee 1865 “I have always been in favor of Emancipation.” - Robert E Lee In an 1863 letter to his home state congressman, Elihu Washburne, Grant summed up his pre-war attitude: “I never was an Abolitionist,” he said, “not even what could be called anti-slavery.” “We're were not fighting for the perpetuation of slavery, but for the principles of states rights and free trade, and in defense of our homes which we were ruthlessly invaded.” -VMI Jewish Cadet Moses Jacob Ezekiel “Let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.” - Nathan Bedford Forrest “African Americans should have the right to vote.” - Confederate Colonel John Salmon Ford The confederate soldier “Fought because he was provoked, intimidated, and ultimately invaded” -James Webb Born Fighting a History of the Scoth-Irish in America “I was fighting for my home, and he had no business being there” -Virginia confederate Soldier Frank Potts List of causes of the Civil War- Harpers Ferry On the night of October 16, 1859, Brown and a band of followers seized the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in what is believed to have been an attempt to arm a slave insurrection. (Brown denied this at his trial, but evidence indicated otherwise.) They were dislodged by a force of U.S. Marines led by Army lieutenant colonel Robert E. Lee. Brown was swiftly tried for treason against Virginia and hanged. Southern reaction initially was that his acts were those of a mad fanatic, of little consequence. But when Northern abolitionists made a martyr of him, Southerners came to believe this was proof the North intended to wage a war of extermination against white Southerners. Brown’s raid thus became a step on the road to war between the sections. States' Rights The idea of states' rights was not new to the Civil War. Since the Constitution was first written there had been arguments about how much power the states should have versus how much power the federal government should have. The southern states felt that the federal government was taking away their rights and powers. Political power That was not enough to calm the fears of delegates to an 1860 secession convention in South Carolina. To the surprise of other Southern states-and even to many South Carolinians-the convention voted to dissolve the state’s contract with the United States and strike off on its own. South Carolina had threatened this before in the 1830s during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, over a tariff that benefited Northern manufacturers but increased the cost of goods in the South. Jackson had vowed to send an army to force the state to stay in the Union, and Congress authorized him to raise such an army (all Southern senators walked out in protest before the vote was taken), but a compromise prevented the confrontation from occurring. Perhaps learning from that experience the danger of going it alone, in 1860 and early 1861 South Carolina sent emissaries to other slave holding states urging their legislatures to follow its lead, nullify their contract with the United States and form a new Southern Confederacy. Six more states heeded the siren call: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Others voted down secession-temporarily. When President Lincoln called for Volunteers to invade the south, six southern states voted to join the Confederacy. The issue of slavery The burning issue that led to the disruption of the union was the debate over the future of slavery. Secession brought about a war in which the Northern and Western states and territories fought to preserve the Union, and the South fought to establish Southern independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution. Most of the states of the North, meanwhile, one by one had gradually abolished slavery. A steady flow of immigrants, especially from Ireland and Germany during the potato famine of the 1840s and 1850s, insured the North a ready pool of laborers, many of whom could be hired at low wages, diminishing the need to cling to the institution of slavery. Child labor was also a growing trend in the North. The agrarian South utilized slaves to tend its large plantations and perform other duties. On the eve of the Civil War, some 4 million Africans and their descendants toiled as slave laborers in the South. Slavery was part of the Southern economy although only a relatively small portion of the population actually owned slaves.
“I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races … I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Africans, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” - Abraham Lincoln
Read literally every single compromise proposed by southern governors, senators, house members in congress.....a compromise is a solution to a problem.....There was no mentioned of tariffs in a single compromise. Every single compromise was tied to their rights with regards to African slavery.....states right was just a cover for slavery and nothing else. It wasn't complex at all.....slavery was at the center. You don't like it, I don't like it, but that's real American history. Take your lost cause bulls**t elsewhere. smh
@@kninezbanks Read every single one, 6 out of 13 mentioned slavery and the 6 that did mention slavery like the us constitution. Read books not blogs. That’s the historical fact. Get your socialist propaganda out of here
The Civil War was inevitable. It was also a war that I could not see the US winning if the nation had not kicked the can of slavery down the road. If in the infancy of the nation the South had seceded, fighting with the enemies of the US, the fledgling US wouldn't have stood a chance. It's possible that without the loss of the US, partially over the issue of England's policy of having slavery as an institution of its colonies, the abolitionist movement in the UK wouldn't have succeeded in ending slavery in the other colonies held by their kingdom. The loss of the US provided undeniable evidence of how its existence weakens the Empire as opposed to strengthening it and its control over its colonies. It was very expensive for the United States, and the US was unfairly left holding Europe's baggage for slavery, but it was a price paid at a time which occurred about as early as it could have.
Hind sight is perfect. We may have avoided the Civil War if a law (or Constitutional Amendment) was passed (or ratified) freeing the slaves and paying the slave owners the market value of their slaves in gold and silver coin. Enforcement would have been a problem.
The USA inherited slavery from the British Empire and it was more an economic issue in the big picture, considered that many recognized that slavery was unethical.
Let's acknowledge that the exploitation of lower class people by those who control large business interests is a fact. Keeping operational costs as low as possible is a basic tenet of capitalism. If you only pay your workers meager compensation that means more profit for you. If you pay them nothing (as was the case with slaves) you will have no motivation to change that arrangement. Making money is actually our unofficial religion and standard policy.
It’s always about money. The north couldn’t compete with the south due to labor. Of course the south had labor they didn’t have to pay. The north had labor costs therefore having to charge more for goods produced.
Absolutely inevitable. I have been wondering about the other, undiscovered states, in relation to our "expansion." We also stole quite a few extra pieces of land and bought a few others...all those people in those regions became automatic outsiders to the lands they once lived, because it did not line up with the ideas of progress...certainly not gold either. California's gold rush seems like a good place for an impact site, given how gold is "made."
EVEN NOW TODAY.....slavery is upon us from the day we are born the day SSN were issued to us like item numbers to place in the system. Rich off the labor of the very people that strive to create a better place for generations to come, yet we are suppressed to live like slaves to serve the few that lead and not the whole to give strength for all.
I love you ABT, but I had to drop a dislike as this video was overly simple at certain points. Slavery was a complex problem and the reluctance to abolish it wasn't tied solely to money concerns. That, and just because someone was anti-slavery did not mean they were pro-Negro, and just because someone was pro-slavery didn't mean they were anti-Negro. You had abolitionists who loathed blacks, and slave-owners who liked blacks.
You can't like blacks if you think it's okay to enslave them....what a stupid comment.....Can someone say they like catholics while being okay with the majority of them being enslaved and denied of the same rights the non catholics and enslavers enjoy?.....can someone say they like whites while not raising a finger to free them in a nation where most whites are enslaved and denied rights purely on the basis of race? Read literally every single compromise proposed by southern governors, senators, house members in congress.....a compromise is a solution to a problem.....every single compromise was tied to their rights with regards to African slavery.....states right was just a cover for slavery and nothing else. It wasn't complex at all.....slavery was at the center. You don't like it, I don't like it, but that's real American history. Take your lost cause bulls**t elsewhere. smh
Peace for who? Millions of blacks were taken hostage. Read literally every single compromise proposed by southern governors, senators, house members in congress.....a compromise is a solution to a problem.....every single compromise was tied to their rights with regards to African slavery.....states right was just a cover for slavery and nothing else. It wasn't complex at all.....slavery was at the center. You don't like it, I don't like it, but that's real American history. Take your lost cause bulls**t elsewhere. smh
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Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin and other epic founding fathers were strongly against slavery. Thomas Jefferson wrote an outright condemnation of slavery into the Declaration, but it was of course written out since too many found it to be problematic.
@Ballstavius Deadeyes but Jefferson engaged in atleast statutory rape
Yet he owned slaves himself
while owning slaves said it was bad - such IRONY
Look at the context of the time
@@nobonespursTo be fair, he seemed to want to free them when he was older, but he couldn't because he was in debt and so if he tried to free them, they would be seized by his debtors.
I think
You guys need to make more of these videos!
Glory is a great movie if anyone is interested in how African Americans fought in the civil war. All star cast too
Excellent recommendation!! The song they sing before the main battle is extraordinarily brilliant.
Saw that film in my 8th grade U.S. History class, it’s so good.
If the founding fathers truly believe in freedom they would've took more of a bold stance against slavery. It would've shown they had conviction in their beliefs in freedom and liberty.
I hesitated before clicking watch. This was very well done. Thanks for not making this channel a political forum.
They did. These people think slaves built the USA. What a Joke.
@A Spiller Yep. I thought I was gonna like this channel and then they ruined it.
@@Uhtredrag1080 because slaves were forced to make most of the country, th-
@@kircinnamon8496 Did slaves write the Constitution? Slaves didn't make the country, LOL.
Thank you for not race-baiting
Whilst the founding fathers didn't exactly do much to prevent the civil war from happening it didn't mean that it was inevitable. The Dred Scott case and the disastrous presidency of James Buchanan directly lead to the civil war as well as the event of 'Bleeding Kansas' due to the failed efforts of the Missuori Compromise didn't help as well. The country was certainly divided but it especially still is today with our current political climate which doesn't mean we're going to Civil War however these series of unfortunate events was the match that ultimately ignited the flames of the American Civil War.
Keep it up guys. Great teaching material.
The civil war was inevitable ever since the tariffs of abominations. The south was hurt badly by these tariffs. They could not sell as much of their products losing money and they had to pay more for the manufactured goods they needed. Also they had to purchase manufactured goods from northern factories because of the shortage of imports. The south called the tariffs of 1828 the Tariffs of Abominations.
Misleading. The conflict began primarily as a result of the long-standing disagreement over the institution of slavery. You know that, I'm sure.
@@gregl.7465 Wrong. That’s completely the truth. The south tried to leave in 1828 and was convinced to stay. 70% of the south didn’t have slavery.
It’s misleading, wrong, and a new myth to say slavery was the whole point of the war. Both sides had it and it wasn’t banned until the last year of the war as a military tactic.
“We Are Fighting for Independence, Not Slavery”. - Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy to Edward Kirk 1864
“I worked night and day for 12 years to prevent the war, but I could not. The north was mad, blind,would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.” - Confederate President Jefferson Davis
“In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country.” - Robert E Lee 1856
“While we see the Course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who Sees the end” - Robert E Lee 1856
“I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interests of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this, as regards Virginia especially, that I would cheerfully have lost all I have lost by the war, and have suffered all I have suffered, to have this object attained.” - Robert E Lee 1865
“I have always been in favor of Emancipation.” - Robert E Lee
In an 1863 letter to his home state congressman, Elihu Washburne, Grant summed up his pre-war attitude: “I never was an Abolitionist,” he said, “not even what could be called anti-slavery.”
“We're were not fighting for the perpetuation of slavery, but for the principles of states rights and free trade, and in defense of our homes which we were ruthlessly invaded.” -VMI Jewish Cadet Moses Jacob Ezekiel
“Let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.” - Nathan Bedford Forrest
“African Americans should have the right to vote.” - Confederate Colonel John Salmon Ford
The confederate soldier “Fought because he was provoked, intimidated, and ultimately invaded”
-James Webb Born Fighting a History of the Scoth-Irish in America
“I was fighting for my home, and he had no business being there”
-Virginia confederate Soldier Frank Potts
List of causes of the Civil War-
Harpers Ferry
On the night of October 16, 1859, Brown and a band of followers seized the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in what is believed to have been an attempt to arm a slave insurrection. (Brown denied this at his trial, but evidence indicated otherwise.) They were dislodged by a force of U.S. Marines led by Army lieutenant colonel Robert E. Lee.
Brown was swiftly tried for treason against Virginia and hanged. Southern reaction initially was that his acts were those of a mad fanatic, of little consequence. But when Northern abolitionists made a martyr of him, Southerners came to believe this was proof the North intended to wage a war of extermination against white Southerners. Brown’s raid thus became a step on the road to war between the sections.
States' Rights
The idea of states' rights was not new to the Civil War. Since the Constitution was first written there had been arguments about how much power the states should have versus how much power the federal government should have. The southern states felt that the federal government was taking away their rights and powers.
Political power
That was not enough to calm the fears of delegates to an 1860 secession convention in South Carolina. To the surprise of other Southern states-and even to many South Carolinians-the convention voted to dissolve the state’s contract with the United States and strike off on its own.
South Carolina had threatened this before in the 1830s during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, over a tariff that benefited Northern manufacturers but increased the cost of goods in the South. Jackson had vowed to send an army to force the state to stay in the Union, and Congress authorized him to raise such an army (all Southern senators walked out in protest before the vote was taken), but a compromise prevented the confrontation from occurring.
Perhaps learning from that experience the danger of going it alone, in 1860 and early 1861 South Carolina sent emissaries to other slave holding states urging their legislatures to follow its lead, nullify their contract with the United States and form a new Southern Confederacy. Six more states heeded the siren call: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Others voted down secession-temporarily. When President Lincoln called for Volunteers to invade the south, six southern states voted to join the Confederacy.
The issue of slavery
The burning issue that led to the disruption of the union was the debate over the future of slavery. Secession brought about a war in which the Northern and Western states and territories fought to preserve the Union, and the South fought to establish Southern independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution.
Most of the states of the North, meanwhile, one by one had gradually abolished slavery. A steady flow of immigrants, especially from Ireland and Germany during the potato famine of the 1840s and 1850s, insured the North a ready pool of laborers, many of whom could be hired at low wages, diminishing the need to cling to the institution of slavery. Child labor was also a growing trend in the North.
The agrarian South utilized slaves to tend its large plantations and perform other duties. On the eve of the Civil War, some 4 million Africans and their descendants toiled as slave laborers in the South. Slavery was part of the Southern economy although only a relatively small portion of the population actually owned slaves.
“I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races … I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Africans, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” - Abraham Lincoln
Read literally every single compromise proposed by southern governors, senators, house members in congress.....a compromise is a solution to a problem.....There was no mentioned of tariffs in a single compromise.
Every single compromise was tied to their rights with regards to African slavery.....states right was just a cover for slavery and nothing else.
It wasn't complex at all.....slavery was at the center. You don't like it, I don't like it, but that's real American history. Take your lost cause bulls**t elsewhere. smh
@@kninezbanks Read every single one, 6 out of 13 mentioned slavery and the 6 that did mention slavery like the us constitution. Read books not blogs. That’s the historical fact. Get your socialist propaganda out of here
The Civil War was inevitable. It was also a war that I could not see the US winning if the nation had not kicked the can of slavery down the road. If in the infancy of the nation the South had seceded, fighting with the enemies of the US, the fledgling US wouldn't have stood a chance. It's possible that without the loss of the US, partially over the issue of England's policy of having slavery as an institution of its colonies, the abolitionist movement in the UK wouldn't have succeeded in ending slavery in the other colonies held by their kingdom. The loss of the US provided undeniable evidence of how its existence weakens the Empire as opposed to strengthening it and its control over its colonies. It was very expensive for the United States, and the US was unfairly left holding Europe's baggage for slavery, but it was a price paid at a time which occurred about as early as it could have.
Thomas Jefferson said that the fact that the US was getting increasingly divided over slavery would ultimately result in a war.
He was right.
Imagine fighting in the revolutionary war, helping the country get its freedom and independence but then yourself going right back to being a slave.
Solid video
Hind sight is perfect. We may have avoided the Civil War if a law (or Constitutional Amendment) was passed (or ratified) freeing the slaves and paying the slave owners the market value of their slaves in gold and silver coin. Enforcement would have been a problem.
So you support reparations for black people now?
@@earlwallace2015 Your question makes no sense. Please read my comment again.
The USA inherited slavery from the British Empire and it was more an economic issue in the big picture, considered that many recognized that slavery was unethical.
And the American native Indians? Weren't they created equal? You might think so looking at their fate
Let's acknowledge that the exploitation of lower class people by those who control large business interests is a fact. Keeping operational costs as low as possible is a basic tenet of capitalism. If you only pay your workers meager compensation that means more profit for you. If you pay them nothing (as was the case with slaves) you will have no motivation to change that arrangement. Making money is actually our unofficial religion and standard policy.
god created men different. Samuel Colt made them all equals.
Conflicting info in here. GW did speak p out a lot on Slavery.
I learned nothing from this
This law has covered men since it's inception
This is going to be one heck of a spicy comment section.
A year later, this comment section is pretty tame.😥
It’s always about money. The north couldn’t compete with the south due to labor. Of course the south had labor they didn’t have to pay. The north had labor costs therefore having to charge more for goods produced.
Absolutely inevitable. I have been wondering about the other, undiscovered states, in relation to our "expansion." We also stole quite a few extra pieces of land and bought a few others...all those people in those regions became automatic outsiders to the lands they once lived, because it did not line up with the ideas of progress...certainly not gold either. California's gold rush seems like a good place for an impact site, given how gold is "made."
And 20k slaves joined the british
Just read the Real Lincoln and it’s an eye opener
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Let us make man in our image
Wow
EVEN NOW TODAY.....slavery is upon us from the day we are born the day SSN were issued to us like item numbers to place in the system. Rich off the labor of the very people that strive to create a better place for generations to come, yet we are suppressed to live like slaves to serve the few that lead and not the whole to give strength for all.
I love you ABT, but I had to drop a dislike as this video was overly simple at certain points. Slavery was a complex problem and the reluctance to abolish it wasn't tied solely to money concerns. That, and just because someone was anti-slavery did not mean they were pro-Negro, and just because someone was pro-slavery didn't mean they were anti-Negro. You had abolitionists who loathed blacks, and slave-owners who liked blacks.
You can't like blacks if you think it's okay to enslave them....what a stupid comment.....Can someone say they like catholics while being okay with the majority of them being enslaved and denied of the same rights the non catholics and enslavers enjoy?.....can someone say they like whites while not raising a finger to free them in a nation where most whites are enslaved and denied rights purely on the basis of race?
Read literally every single compromise proposed by southern governors, senators, house members in congress.....a compromise is a solution to a problem.....every single compromise was tied to their rights with regards to African slavery.....states right was just a cover for slavery and nothing else.
It wasn't complex at all.....slavery was at the center. You don't like it, I don't like it, but that's real American history. Take your lost cause bulls**t elsewhere. smh
Slave owner that liked blks? He liked the free labor
Had only Lincoln chosen peace.
Peace for who? Millions of blacks were taken hostage. Read literally every single compromise proposed by southern governors, senators, house members in congress.....a compromise is a solution to a problem.....every single compromise was tied to their rights with regards to African slavery.....states right was just a cover for slavery and nothing else.
It wasn't complex at all.....slavery was at the center. You don't like it, I don't like it, but that's real American history. Take your lost cause bulls**t elsewhere. smh
It was the Confederates' fault.