What the Founders Did About Slavery | Highlights Ep.31
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2021
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The American Founders understood that slavery was fundamentally an injustice. In this Highlight of Hillsdale College’s FREE Online Course, “Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution,” Dr. Kevin Portteus outlines the evidence showing that the American Founders knew slavery was wrong in principle and sought to set conditions in place that would put slavery on the path to extinction.
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Dr. Thomas Sowell gives lectures re: slavery that are so excellent...this 90 yr. old black man has a true perspective like no other. His lectures add facets to the history that can be found no where else.
Wow, you seriously name-dropped another YT channel on 'Hillsdale College' YT channel?!
(Internet-etiquette must be a stranger to you.
It is considered, *rude* behavior.
Dr. Thomas Sowell would be the FIRST to tell you this, IF he knew what you did!)
@@holycats8554 I have never heard of this supposed etiquette breach. I see nothing wrong with the poster referencing Thomas Sowell.
@@rickintexas1584
This country is sorely lacking in manners/respect, anymore.
As a fellow-Texan, I'm not surprised by your comment.
Encountering rude disrespectful people is becoming the norm these days, it seems.
Disrespect of others' would guarantee a severe lecture &/or ass-whooping (dependant on who/what) by my parents. Thanks for weighing in, Rich.
@@holycats8554 are you accusing me of being rude and disrespectful because I disagreed with you? That is way over the line. My comment was not rude, nor disrespectful. I simply shared my opinion.
I am 58 years old, not some young brat on the internet. I was raised with manners. My comment was simply my opinion. I stated my opinion succinctly without resorting to insults.
Even though you accused me of being rude and disrespectful, I won't make the same accusations against you. See how that works?
@@rickintexas1584 did you finish high school?
I said no such thing!
This does a great job of putting Slavery in the context of the times. Lately too many people try to judge and condemn historical figures by today’s social environment. This video provides great information. Keep up the good work!
Agree very much. I believe that the practice of judging folks from another time by our standards is called "presenting". I pray that 50 years from now folks who do presenting on today's abortion advocates see them as a horrible blot on this nation's history
@@michaelcasile1036 Really now i think woman has a right to choose just like the man has a right to choose to not have a kid, but if it happens the woman should be the one, so go live in your own history, all see yah in 50 years will see who right.
@@M_Lopez_3D_Artist Progressive statement: "A society is judged by how they care for their weakest and most vulnerable!"
Also progressive statement: "We must be able to kill the child in the womb right through birth!"
Maybe I'm unique in seeing the hypocrisy and sociopathy in that. Do you understand the logistics of 2nd and 3rd term abortions. Babies literally getting ripped apart limb from limb while still alive ... or babies partially delivered breach so that they can insert a tube and suck the brains out. I pray that generations to come will have a lot more compassion that one ... and will consider this practice quite shameful.
Meanwhile every single one of us benefits from slave labor. Clothes, food, electronics are either 100% manufactured or at least partially manufactured by slave labor.
Meanwhile no condemnation towards China.
Yet these same people stay silent on the rest of the world
"Of all the tragic facts about the history of slavery, the most astonishing to an American today is that, although slavery was a worldwide institution for thousands of years, nowhere in the world was slavery a controversial issue prior to the 18th century. People of every race and color were enslaved - and enslaved others. White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed."
Thomas Sowell
Does Dr. Thomas Sowell also tell of the Black Masters?
One was a breeder (to sell for the 'auction-block') & a vicious 'master'.
Others, were black women as 'master' & there were native indians, too.
I found this information through reading the Gutenberg (books no longer in print) website.
@@holycats8554 Thomas Sowell's real history of slavery is available on UA-cam in audio form.
While I am a HUGE fan of Dr. Sowell and agree with this statement ... slavery is a blight on our history and something I do wish never occurred.
@@russellgay5337 I'm already a subscriber but someone else may not know, thanks.
@@michaelcasile1036 No one is contesting that.
The only accredited college with some bloody guts. God speed you beautiful intellectuals!
Do you think that Hillsdale would have enough courage to resign its acreditation. Why would it want to do that? To be free of its restrictions. Why? To be better.
Prager is good and College of the Ozarks.
@@usncorpsman7966 Prager is not even Christian. College of the Ozarks is an interesting case. Their acceptance rate is extremely low. We need some new Christian liberal arts colleges. Do you know of any?
@@jakebredthauer5100 TY for that. I did not know that. I would have to research. I know of CO because I live near and I get their newsletter. Yes, it is hard to get in for all good reasons. You have to work. Good young patriot kids. Gives this old man hope.
@@jakebredthauer5100 I didn't think prageru was an actual academic University.
1:00 "When a child learns that they can disrespect someone, they can disrespect anyone; including their own parents." Capt. Jean-luc Picard.
Hillsdale should compose all public school curriculum.
That's the truth!
I wish
As in all academic institutions, the standard for curriculum development (especially in regards to history lessons) should cite scholarly work as a primary source. The scholarly work referenced must contain primary sources as cited references and be peer-reviewed for accuracy and integrity.
@@davidtop8989 I could not agree more. And then we have things like the 1619 Project and Howard Zinn's book. Both historical lies, distortions, intentional omittion of facts in schools that fail to pass academic standards, contain plaegerism and are not peer reviewed all to push an agenda
Hillsdale has revoked a curriculum for homeschool and has the Barney School Initiative which is creating schools of its own...
Grateful for Hillsdale!
I’m glad that this was aired, the founders were aware of indentured settlers in the early days. Sad that legislation had to result into bloodshed to end slavery. At least today you get to choose your own form of indentured in your pursuit of happiness . As Carlin joked, the American dream, you got to be asleep to believe it.
Linda wants submissive women brood mares.
@@sentientflower7891 WTF?? Are you talking about?
@@jimmygrant424 Hillsdale is a Taliban institution of the Evangelical sort.
It's a shame they don't teach this in schools. I had never heard about the Northwest Ordinance until this video. It should have been something taught right along with slavery yet all we hear is the bad parts.
Too bad you never read anything about the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Lincoln cited the Northwest Ordinance as a reason why Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act was wrong and why Douglas should be defeated. Of course, this requires an American history that makes slavery a central part of understanding it and, as we all know, the US is not a racist country.
@@bobyates2826
I doubt he "never read anything about the Lincoln-Douglas debates". Hyperbole on your part.
It was taught. Perhaps you were not paying attention.
@@bobyates2826yes it is. Even pre-internet people in Asia knew America was a racist country, How could word have spread so far? Could it have to do with the immagration process and how it worked?
White people had it way easier way to get into the country. Colors were banned for many peroids of American history. And Terrorities did not become a State until it reached a 70% white majority.
We had racist senators, govenors, presidents whom enacted policies in favor of whites and policies againisted colored people..
The supreme court ruled twice that Blacks can never be considered an American Citizen reguardless of where they were born because they are only 3/5 a person..
Haha. People love shitting on NYC being too left and libral and we teach bullshit to our students.. but we were definitely taught about the NorthWest Ordinance..
Also, the founders of the Constitution discussed the fact that it would never be ratified by all 13 original states if slavery was abolished in it.
Love Hillsdale ❤️God bless
And yet, our forefathers held slaves. Jefferson not only held slaves, he had a lifelong, immoral relationship against his wife with a black (woman) slave, he had children with her and they were forced into slavery. Hypocrisy has been a human behavior, on every level since the beginning of time, and it will, unfortunately, continue until this creation is gone. "Not one is worthy; no not even one."
Wife was deceased. Sally was a half sister of her.
I live in Missouri. This is the 200th anniversary of Missouri entering the Union. If it is true that the Founding Fathers put in motion actions that would end slavery, then why was there such a huge problem in 1821 with Missouri entering the Union as a slave state? Likewise, why was there resistance in New England for Texas to enter the union? And, if slavery was dying, isn't it the case that one of the issues the Americans had with settling in Texas was that Mexico had outlawed slavery and that was one of the reasons they fought to create the Texas Republic?
Northern mercantilists did not want more slave states in the Union because of the political power afforded to the south by the 3/5 clause that the southern states otherwise would not have had. If the slave states had unilaterally abolished slavery, for example, in 1850, this would have only strengthened the south politically rather than weakening it. With slavery ended, ALL of the former slaves would have been counted in congressional representation rather than just 3/5, thus making it even more difficult for the northern mercantilists to seize complete control of the country's economy. This is how slavery became a dividing factor. The north, for the most part, was really more "anti-slave" than they were anti-slavery.
I have taken the course (under my real name not this comment handle) ...par excellence! Highlights a Great Idea! So many today have no patience for the long videos, I'm thankful they appeal to me, thrilled with the learning at 71 now.
Will be much easier to get friends to try a short video with a professor who is easy to listen to like Dr Kevin.
Keep'em coming.
Illuminating. Best of luck from Hamilton Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
If Americans and Canadians don't vote Leftist totalitarians out of office, they TRULY deserve what they get. New Yorkers can choose better, like Rob Astorino, here: ua-cam.com/video/kfzWahQzEv0/v-deo.html
You'll need it. How is Comrade Trudeau doing these days? Taking a break from blackface to implement more draconian restrictions of freedom to make you "safer?"
Many people today don't seem to think about the fact that our society has taken time to progress, we have changed more in the past 100 years then in all the years before it. Our modern society wants quick explanations of things, and simple black or white answers, but history doesn't work that way. People should see history for what it is, instead of casting blame and fault with people that actually did a part in changing things. America has played a great part in that change. When you compare it to where the rest of the world was before. Some people seem to think everything should have been perfect from the beginning, but it wasn't, it was a step, and a foundation for improvement. No other country has done so much for human rights. Even though Europe abolished slavery before we did, they still took time for quality of life to improve.
Excellent -- did not know/understand much of what was presented -- very interesting. Thank you.
Our country is a progressive entity born out of darker times. Evil takes time to overcome without resorting to negative acts justifying positive ends.
Well said. Kinetic efforts to stay oppression require acts of violent oppression. It is interesting to study the four generations between 1780 and 1860 for evidence of a continual eroding of the institute of slavery in America. However, in the end, it did in fact require kinetic military operations to finally end slavery. For everything, there is a time and place, I suppose. Still, I much prefer non-kinetic efforts. Less carnage.
@@christopherlarsen7788 I always wonder how Britain was able to phase it out so effectively.
@@URProductions - I suspect royal decree helped a great deal.
Slavery is one of those things that we intuitively understand that we don't want done to us. It is therefore a violation of the Golden Rule, and this rule is a categorical imperative across every religious faith. Slavery is difficult to justify in a moral society.
Thank you Hillsdale College
Thank you for your education video series.
This was taught in my public schools in Southern California in the 80s and 90s. I wonder when it stopped.
Love this! 💛 History is an amazing thing.
Much appreciated work!
Excellent lecture. Eye opening information most people are too lazy to track down.
All people are created equal, but what people choose to do often puts them in a position to be treated differently out of fear or differences in behaviour.
Reason, unfortunately, even brilliantly argued reason, won't change the minds of many who thinks with their guts.
This was excellent
As a reinforcement of how deplorable our government education system is; I had a high school history teacher in 1978 that flat out told the class that the 3/5’s clause in the constitution was there because the founding fathers and writers of the constitution actually believed that the black slaves were only worth 3/5’s of a human being.
3/5 of a "white" human being.
(Kind of like a GOP vote is only worth 3/5 of a DEM vote. And the tyranny and abuse continues.)
Well done! Keep going.
Excellent presentation of facts not emotion or feelings.
Great insight into history here solely focused on Slavery. I'd like to know more about the economic aspects of the Civil War which some say is more an instigator of the war than even slavery.
The south land and cotton. The north had more industry(the mills) The south was like a beaten country, Lincoln had a plan called the Freedman's Bureau to assist in rebuilding.,It was stopped when the Rep; lost power.
@Michael MJL. Yes, it could have been because the Slave Holders didn't want to lose money due to slavery ending.
super cool set
Didn't they call it the "peculiar institution"?They said that they knew it was wrong but also said if dealt with at the time the nation would be torn apart before it had the chance to succeed!They stated again and again a future generation would have to deal with it and pretty much predicted the amount of resistance!Those guys were amazing at their foresight!I sometimes wonder how they might behave if alive today!
Had the native population been more resistant to the diseases introduced by the Europeans, , then slavery would have had a different career.
@@JRobbySh one of my aunts said at first the Europeans tried to enslave the native people but they would simply run back home but then the white people would cut a foot off so they couldn't run so they just sat down and made themselves die.She said that's when they got the black people because it was impossible for those people to just run back home...
@@giannirocco7492 That is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever read on UA-cam.
@@JRobbyShHow so? The natives were Neolithic groups of people encountering proto-industrial civilization. Their destiny likely wouldn’t have been much different.
@@Army4Runner read some history books
Great content. Excellent presentation. Background music was distracting. Perhaps tune it down. Thank you.
Thank you!
Quick correction God allows slavery even mentions it in the 10 commandments. He may not agree but knows it happens even Paul said slaves honor your masters and masters likewise treat your slaves well.
Ex 20:10 ; Eph 6:5-, Col3:2
Way to go buddy!
No mention of this in a HS History class, WHY? WE have been lied to so much.
You allowed yourself to be lied to for a long time. By "You" I mean WE THE PEOPLE.
If Americans don't vote Leftist totalitarians out of office, they TRULY deserve what they get. New Yorkers can choose better, like Rob Astorino, here: ua-cam.com/video/kfzWahQzEv0/v-deo.html
@@MessyTimes This historian is correct with the way its history is, but this still is not showing the whole picture
@@M_Lopez_3D_Artist Only G-d has "the whole picture." It's a really, really, really long read....
@@MessyTimes What if the election is fraudulent?
Thank you.
thank you
They played the hand they were dealt, brilliantly.
FACT: This video is in unbunkable. Prove me wrong.
My forefather came from Union County SC to Daviess County Indiana because he didn't believe in slavery. If Indiana had been allowed to become a slave state, I might never have been born. Wow!
Article 1-Section 2-Clause 3 lays out the measurement of the populace outside of "free Persons". Madison (et al) danced around the subject.
If I remember correctly did the founding fathers not say that all men are created equal?
Thanks, teach on!!!
The quote from Jefferson near the beginning was insightful. It sounds like he was very self-aware of the contradictions of his life as a slaveholder who wanted to work towards dissolving slavery. Painfully so.
Pray an act of perfect contrition everyday
Thomas Jefferson was of the opinion that slavery would be ended by the next generation, by their sons
Then came the cotton gin which made cotton easier to sell.
Nice.
Mayor De Blasio of NYC just removed the statue of Jefferson from Gracie Mansion.
Not a question, slavery was bought and projected from nation /state so it was purely economic from an undermined perspective
Should have sent them back with a bill and a letter that said " Product Defective." Keep the money.
How can slaves hate their country if they had no rights or were even considered people but merely property.
I have read the Bible from cover to cover and I have never read a passage or verse that says slavery is a sin. Am I wrong, is there a passage that says slavery is a sin?? I'm not talking about some verse that can be twisted and contorted to mean that, but in plain language that slavery is a sin??? Slavery from times beginning was a fact of life, some were slaves and some were not.. that's just the way it is/was.
Liberal -“What On earth were The founders thinking ? They could have just given the slaves jobs on their basketball teams” ….
No don't do turn them into athletic gladiators.. Allow them to read, write, arithmetic and those who perform well,, excelled and were vetted as moral patriots and not insurgents conduct commerce on equal footing. Instead greed like Judas darkened hearts of slavers and killed all hopes of full assimilation. Thank God for Jesus who taught us to forgive and love those who oppress you for your reward is heaven. Go...USA 🇺🇸
@Jon Lagann. Clarify your comment because it just sounds racist to me?
@@ckelly9747 yes !!!!!!!! That too ….
@@halbleavy9900 let me clarify ….. I know I have sinned according to your secular religion of Ray sah mah cizzum , but I will not subscribe . I’ll tell you what . Christmas is just around the corner . Give me your mailing address and I’ll get you a sense of humor and a bottle of testosterone ok …….
Nice highlight. I also, think about how Jefferson conducted the Trail of Tears, and how the Northern states had child labor. No one is without sin, and so no country has a perfect record.
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thank you.
What an informative video.
Too bar our schools never mention any of this.
@Todd K. No, this video was mis-informative. You are being lied to and given a person's perspective.
@@halbleavy9900 really? So actual laws passed and actions taken are misleading. Only to progressives rewriting our history.
I wish my historical education had been this detailed and that of a lot of people
🌺🗽 liberty at American shores and Freedom out West 🌺 Hope to see you at the Freedom Monument campus opening ceremonies.🏛️
Legit when I started to listen to this I thought man they have balls telling the truth in this day and age bet the comment section on fire with bs saying cancel them etc but nah not yet ahah yet ahah but it’s refreshing to see people speak about things without being apologetic or making up things just say it as it is
Same. I expected to see flaming on par with what they do the Prager U. Most everyone in the comments I've read so far seem to have a firm grasp on history. Frankly it's encouraging to know not everyone is arrogantly ignorant.
Thomas Jefferson in one of the most anti slave writings said I own 100 slaves
Sadly, all the noble words and actions of the primarily northern states does not negate article 1, section 2 of the Constitution that constitutionally denied full humanity to people in bondage (a nice euphemism for slaves) and gave significant political power to southern states, especially in the House and the Electoral College. Jefferson, despite his anti-slavery rhetoric, continued to own slaves and was willing to employ overseers who whipped them to increase profitability. James Madison owned slaves and even brought them with him to the White House. He eventually sold many of his slaves off to pay for post presidential debt. Despite taking the lead in fighting a war, the moral excuse for which was to free the slaves, the "anti-slavery" Republican party was more than willing to condemn many southern, black Americans to a fate in some ways worse than slavery to secure the White House in 1877. Good intentions may make good political sound bites, but rarely result in lasting policy. One of slavery's ugliest legacy was incipient racism it gave birth to in the minds of many Americans, which was found in popular culture (minstrel shows, Birth of A Nation, a multitude of novels, and the original version of the seemingly innocent song "Putting On the Ritz), and even in the actions of a reformer like Theodore Roosevelt, as evidenced by his handling of the Brownsville incident. Woodrow Wilson, despite being the president of a college with Christian roots, and serving as the governor of a northern state, New Jersey, returned to his "southern" roots and oversaw the resegregation of the Federal bureaucracy. For believers 1st John 4:20-21 can never be just a nice thought.
So, you'd apparently leave the US, if you could?
When you hammer the podium, frothing at the mouth about the contradictory, human nature entangled lives of all of our Founders, wish you folks knew, you sound like you've reached some kind of self-proclaimed level of sanctification and you're without any original sin...
No contradictory choices, no human nature.
100% Monday morning quarterback, hypocrisy.
@@TheMollyPitchers Since you apparently regard yourself as qualified to judge me and demean me I will be brief. No, I would not leave America if I could. Because I believe that we can do better and make our nation better if we dialog and work together. Both the world of the 1619 Project and the idealized, noble, Christian, early America some folks cling to are not true portraits of America's past. As an ordained Baptist minister I definitely understand original sin, in my own life and in the lives of others, and part of road to redemption is acknowledging, repenting, and atoning in appropriate ways for its consequences. We shouldn't waste our time apologizing for the past but work to improve the present.
There are still many nations across the globe that have modern day slavery. The U.S. is not one of these nations. In fact, the U.S. does more good for the world than all other nations combined. The U.S. helped keep the world free many times over the last 100 years. The U.S. almost single handedly keeps the seas open for commerce. The U.S. provides aid through direct cash payments, supplies, medicines, and military support to many nations. It would be nice to get a simply "Thank you" from time to time. As for the morons in the U.S. whom hate the very nation which allows them to speak out and be free......... you are a minority and you should be shunned by the rest of society. God Bless America.
If you believe slavery is wrong and immoral but continue to own slaves, what does it say about you as a person?
This is a highlight. Your questioned “why they didn’t do more,” is answered in the second part of this lecture. You should go watch the whole lecture if you’re actually interested in knowing the answer. It’s lecture 6 of the Con 101 course.
I may check it out, but apologetics is a fairly sad game. If a man does something morally wrong that’s a mistake. If a man does something that he KNOWS is morally wrong we’re dealing with evil and hypocrisy. America was founded on lofty ideals that we have seldom, if ever lived up to. Aiming high is necessary so when you fail at least you may still have improved, certainly better than the modern day race to the bottom. But our founding fathers certainly failed to be who they wanted to be in many areas.
@@georgelux126 Of course they failed to be who they wanted to be in many areas. Don't you? Sometimes it is simply moral failings, but sometimes the circumstances force you into positions that have no good options. Life is not so simple as to always have a good option.
This is like nectar to me
Everyone has ancestors that were slaves.
Everyone has ancestor4s that were masters.
Everyone has ancestors that invaded another land not their own.
Landlord industry replaced slavery along with low wage illegal immigration.
Grate Founders, like never before in the history of humanity and always on the basis of principles!
I have a legitimate question. I love this video and I love Hillsdale. However, I would like to know if Jefferson, or any of the founders that owned slaves, addressed their own hypocrisy on this issue. I’ve heard this quote from Jefferson before, but he owned tons of slaves. How did he justify that?
if they released their slaves, what would have happened to them? they would have been captured by less honorable men and treated worse. So you keep them to ensure they are treated well, and work for abolishment of slavery.
They did. Look up “Jefferson” and “wolf by the ears.” Basically his point is that slavery is like holding a wolf by the ears, they cant keep holding in to it, but they can’t safely let it go. There is a conflict of two things: justice and self-preservation. You should go watch the whole lecture. This is just a highlight of it.
Jefferson owed a lot of money to his creditors. The slaves could have been sold to ease his debts, but Jefferson could not be sure of humane treatment for them. He tried to get slavery outlawed during the forming of the United States, but the southern states threatened to withdraw from the union.
Jefferson was a total hypocrite. The idea, advanced by others, that you hold onto your slaves so that they would not fall into the hands of even worse people, is so much nonsense. Some owners did free their slaves and most of them moved North...while untrained to do much more than farm, farming was what most people did anyway back in this time. Lots of ways to end slavery but it takes more than words.
@@francispoldiak2139 he did what he thiugh he had to do ....which he thiugh best for slave at that time ....
Southern democrats told Lincoln the south could not exist without slavery.
Victimhood is the only thing to come from the remebrance of slavery. Get over it and move on, you’re living in the past. Effing crybabies. Poor things, my heart bleeds. Please.
Always a informed sentient when you yourself do not experience any exclusionary practices yourself. Quite the perspective that allows a disproportionate view of another's groups experience, while only being empathetic or sympathetic to the idea that there actually still exists an imbalance with respect to many things that "Americans" take for granted for themselves. Sorry to say, but the experience of ethnic minorities in this country has left many with a bad taste in their mouths and question the word, "great." What you call victimhood is simply someone else's life experience, so how do you attempt to tell someone, or define their lived experiences?
@@ArmandoTorres-zy1dp No not many minorities have a bad taste in their mouths only the ones who think they’re victims
The United States could not be a mechanism for extending liberty to mankind if it never cleared the first hurdle. Of course better monetary means should have been found to convince the South to form the Union without slaves, but they were unfortunately never discovered. The Civil War contradicted the cause of the Declaration of Independence, consent of the governed. Slavery in all its forms (far too much attention is lost to other forms and far too much singular focus is given to black slavery in America) is abominable.
I wanted to listen to this video, but turned it off due to the INSANELY, annoying background racket. Why would anyone, let alone an educated individual, think it is a good idea to put screeching, repetitive, "Music," in the background of a lecture???!!! Would you do this in a classroom setting? I doubt it, so why include this in a video?!
Informative, and appreciated. It is easy to conclude that America did little about slavery until this issue became "the match thrown into the tinderbox" setting off the Civil War. The reality is quite different. Slavery was viewed by many, perhaps most, as an abomination. There was clearly a gradual deterioration of public acceptance of the institute of slavery prior to 1860.
Maybe in the North but not in the South. The problem was that after the cotton gin was modified to work with American cotton, cotton became King and the South saw this as the linchpin holding up the entire southern economy....take away the cotton gin and we might have had a gradual disappearance of slavery.
@@francispoldiak2139 - That is certainly American history as I learned it. Prior to the cotton gin in the early 1800s, the US held less than 5 percent of the world's cotton exports. By 1850, exports had increased to almost 90 percent. Cotton was a virtual goldmine for America's southern economy, and it was also labor-intense crop. Without the cotton gin, historians have suggested that slavery might have died out.
Yet, this explanation pretends that a large majority of "white" southerners benefitted from the wealth of cotton plantations and slave ownership. That's simply not the case. Only wealthy southerners benefitted wildly from cotton, and only they could afford slaves. It is fairly well established that about 75 percent of southerners DID NOT own slaves. With this knowledge in mind, it isn't difficult to believe that many southerners objected to the institution of slavery.
Ultimately, the American Civil War is remarkably unique in human history as it may be the only time that a privileged class of citizen warred against a privileged class of citizen in horrific carnage to free an oppressed slave class. Said another way, no one is willing to see hundreds of thousands killed, and millions of people maimed, if they weren't steeled in their conviction that slavery was wrong. Americans did this.
@@christopherlarsen7788 Simply because they did not own slaves does not mean many southerners were opposed to the institution. Many Americans today, for example, believe the creation of millionaires and billionaires is important to their own less than sterling economic situation. And I think everybody understands the civil war was not waged to free slaves; it was about preserving the Union. Many northerners were opposed to the Emancipation Proclamation and there were even riots involving workers who thought their own jobs would be endangered if the slaves were freed and then came north...even the Emancipation was more about keeping Europe out of the war than anything else.
@@francispoldiak2139 - I don't think we'll agree. (And there is no requirement to agree.)
We all pay income taxes today. I'd venture to say that most Americans disagree with income tax and would prefer to see it abolished. Your conjecture is that the mere existence of slavery must have meant that a majority of Americans agreed with the institution. I don't believe that to be the case.
The American Civil War was not initiated over the issue of slavery. Yet, it was the "match thrown into the tinder box" of a slew of issues. Moreover, by the Battle of Gettysburg in mid-1863, LTC Joshua L. Chamerblain gave a rousing speech to his regiment prior to the battle explaining that their cause was both the preservation of the national union AND the freedom of slaves. And yes, it appears there were as many pro-slavery Northerners as there were Southerners. Slavery was most definitely a rallying issue prior to the war, during the war, and after the war.
@@christopherlarsen7788 If most Americans would as you say prefer to see the income tax abolished...I assumed they mean it to be replaced with something most would consider a fairer system. No one could be so dumb as to think any nation state can exist without adequate resources available to their government. As for slavery, there is no way to know how many Americans did or did not approve of slavery. But if you contend a majority were opposed to it, I would not automatically say you were wrong. But the bottom line is that for the South, the driving force of their economy was 'King Cotton' and for that they felt they needed slave labor. In terms of what it meant to their economy, telling them to abolish it would be like telling northerners to abolish the use of water, steam, and coal to run their industries. Or, for that matter, telling Americans today that they need to shift to alternative and renewable energy sources NOW...in lieu of oil and gas. And while most Americans might want an end to slavery, northerners were almost as bigoted as the worst southerners. At the same time northern states were outlawing slavery, they were passing all sorts of racist laws...what I am trying to say is that if there were indeed a few devils floating around, there was also very few angels.
Jefferson seen himself as a caretaker not a master..
The Constitution forbids "corruption of the blood" so, if followed, in combination with the ban on importation, would end slavery within a generation.
Prohibition on “Corruption of Blood” specifically applies to punishment or attainder for Treason. It was not intended nor could have reasonably been applied to slavery.
some job titles hold master over people or person
Who would like to discuss the current slavery system operating in a U.S. jurisdiction?
They didn't do a whole much, but they thought a lot about it.
When I’m paying 50% in taxes and have to ask for permission from the government to sell something to my neighbor, I really wonder what defines slavery.
I have a question regarding the following verses:
I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book:
and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book. Revelation 22:18-19 (ASV)
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother. Proverbs 6:20 (ASV)
“For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are DISHONORED! To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it. 1 Corinthians 4:9-12
The family structure is a give, and take COVENANT agreement honoring the Father equal to the Mother. I gave my word to provide my child a safe home free of harmful influences which suggests inciting violence is acceptable behavior. The problem is I do not have the time nor resources to meet my 50% share of living expenses if I am forced to cover the other parent’s share of at-home parental supervision obligations for him as well as mine. I am “person" [18 USC § 2331(3)] capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property, and I require an “equal employment opportunity” [47 U.S.C Code § 554(b)] to reduce harm, and prevent the development of the criminal held responsible altogether. The terms to provide the other parent’s share of at-home parental supervision obligations would only be under the conditions I receive a 50% financial offer that at least matched the 50% of wages I could have provided for myself before I consider a trade.
Neglecting to acknowledge my "equal rights under law" [42 U.S.C §1981] and a “totalitarian dictator" [8 U.S. Code §1101(a)] enforces the law of the beast replicating the behavior of a dominant predator. Ruling in favor of using my child as “debt bondage” he “launders” [18 U.S.C §1956 (a)] the fruits🍎 of over twenty two years in “forced labor" [18 U.S. Code §1589], and persecutes me the guilty criminal held responsible. “but like Adam they have TRANSGRESSED THE COVENANT; There they have dealt treacherously against Me.” Hosea 6:7
Authorizing a “rebellion or insurrection" [18 U.S.C § 2383] he pays the salary a criminal street gang to “further commit crimes of violence"🗡 [18 U.S. Code §25] instead, and I have been restricted from my rights to a home, food, water, and now all my property looted by thieves “impersonating my law enforcement”🤱 [18 U.S.C Code § 913]. They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have BROKEN THE COVENANT I made with their fathers. Jeremiah 11:10
Triggering the bodies natural reaction to the fight-or-flight-or-freeze or the fight-flight response (also called hyperarousal or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. ua-cam.com/video/v-t1Z5-oPtU/v-deo.html The release of chemical messengers results in the production of the hormone cortisol, which increases blood pressure, blood sugar, and SUPPRESSING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AGAINST PATHOGENS is where the need for his artificial chemically induced controlled solution takes root.
Increasing demand places my child at risk for a drug trafficker to make false, fictitious or fraudulent claims [18 U.S.C Code § 287], and endorsing a artificial chemically induced controlled solution is what caused the deterioration of the critical infrastructure in the first place.
What conclusions would you draw?
Ben Franklin Abolition Society, 1789.
The .en who wrote the words and then allowed it in this new enterprise and personally followed the abomination. Men who were supposed to be so strong and rightous were spineless and cowards in reality.
This video is proof that you really can polish a turd.
Maybe you have a better solution?
The United States didn't start slavery but they did end it
Not enforcing law is the same as no law...
A wrong can not be turned right
Excellent vid. Unfortunately, left doesn't "feel" it....Need more mathematicians on left....a lot more
Ah, but the problem is that The Left is a logic-free zone, which means that once someone who starts out Goofy Leftward Drifting (maybe because of Draft Dodger stoner hippie parents) but then begins to study mathematics, will suddenly realize how inane, deluded, ignorant and propaganda-driven are all the "woke," so there by definition can be no liberal mathematicians.
@@MessyTimes the left? What do you mean by the left?
Jefferson owned slaves.....how can this presentation cite Jefferson as a moral force against slavery? I am a conservative but if some founders were conflated, be upfront and not this! Otherwise this is neither an honest nor accurate presentation.
"It's bad for slaves" -- probably didn't need to point that out.
I'm sure they just freed "manumitted" (sp?) the slaves who were too old to work, making them therefore fend for themselves.
Prove it.
@@leedaniel5153 lol. not wasting any time on you. whites are still allowed to use Google right?
@Tom Hoban the victor gets to write the history. I just can't think kindly of the people that used black children as gator-bait.
@@luisg6404 There are histories of the Civil War written by people in the south, there are histories of WW2 written by Japan and Germany, there are histories of the U.S. revolutionary war written by the British, and so on. The old saying that "the victor gets to write the history" is usually used by cynical anti-American left-wingers, but it is demonstrably false.
Very nice. It would have been interesting to hear how Jefferson justified owning slaves in spite of his views as cited here.
It’s possible he “sheltered” them. It’s possible that he kept slaves because he could provide a better living situation rather than free them and have a worse person enslave them again and treat them like cattle.
@@jomonte100 In Virginia there was a law in that day which stated any slave set free had, I believe, 30 days to leave the state or be subject to enslavement by anyone who would take that slave by force. If Jefferson had set all 180 slaves free, where would they go? Many would be captured by someone else and returned to slavery.
Jefferson owed a lot of money to his creditors. The slaves could have been sold to ease his debts, but Jefferson could not be sure of humane treatment for them. He tried to get slavery outlawed during the forming of the United States, but the southern states threatened to withdraw from the union.
Read and study Jefferson's writings and letters
@@barbaramartin9822 true Jefferson owed $107k equivalent to $2 million today. Monticello is 5000 acres at that time his land was worth $1.25 an acre approximately. Also, Virginia law to relative to Emancipation had deed requirements. Meaning he had to have the funds or his slaves would be taken to satisfy the debt
In what year Britain abolish slavery? In what year American Revolution starts?
Did Britain abolish slavery - "In one way or the other?" And what the meaning of it - one way or the other? Britain just abolish it. In one way.
The 7 North state did not have right weather for running a big plantations producing important World commodities Agricultural Products.
There still is modern day slavery. 😕😢😭
Yes, by the democrats
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Our founders also said this in the declaration of independence. AMERICA WE ARE AT THIS POINT
@rlb9652. How so please?
Oh man I thought this was CollegeHumour
New slavery is sports , some just get paid ,but they still build coliseums and charge the general public and make billions off them.
College University's are the worst abusers of this. Why do you think coaches are making 9 million a year. Ever hear of a coach losing his job because he has to many concussions or his career is over because he had to many torn ACLs
Nah it doesnt work like that. If your University is in the SEC or Big10 your school is getting paid around 70 million a year, so what do they bring in every 10 years off these kids backs that very few ever get an education
Sugar Coating
The America Founders, people were already here. The America Indians. then came to Africa and brought Black People, I wonder what is fundamentally about stealing, taking, killing, oppressions, brutality, rape, murder, forced labor, America is a legacy, I can go on. as a black person, and a veteran, when these things are done to black people, or any one, America did these things, these acts had value, that brought me here today, I am sure to the colonizers, it was fun-da- mentally to their mentality. Like my wife that cheated on me, it was fun-da-mentally to her, but to the the rest of our family, well what is normal to white people, is not normal to me. throw out the filibuster, pay reparations for Americas wrongs, and knowing the injustice, like that fun dance the limbo, how low can you go. it is ok to know this knowledge, it is another thing to do something about it, and I am still a slave. #Opposing Minds Poetry..
There was slavery everywhere in the world ,Romans ,Chinese ,Indians ,Spanish ,English name a country and they had slaves including Africa,now America has come a world away from it while other countries have indentured slaves call servants ask any Indian and they will tell you it’s true
How is paying people $7.25/hr different than slavery?
If two people come to a consensual agreement on the rate, it can’t be slavery. If the government steals half of it in taxes….
@@pilotandy_com no one consents to being screwed. They have no options. Go back to rrich-wing nutjob land