Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- This month, the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is diving into How the South Won the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson! The live conversation between Jeffrey Sachs and Heather Cox Richardson will provide a fresh examination of the Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America.
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. It was a natural fit. Settlers from the East had for decades been pushing into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierarchies. The South and West equally depended on extractive industries-cotton in the former and mining, cattle, and oil in the latter-giving rise a new birth of white male oligarchy, despite the guarantees provided by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the economic opportunities afforded by expansion.
To reveal why this happened, How the South Won the Civil War traces the story of the American paradox, the competing claims of equality and subordination woven into the nation's fabric and identity.
Richardson's searing book seizes upon the soul of the country and its ongoing struggle to provide equal opportunity to all. Debunking the myth that the Civil War released the nation from the grip of oligarchy, expunging the sins of the Founding, it reveals how and why the Old South not only survived in the West, but thrived.
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Every black person knows this by the age of 12... Just so you know... It is our ability to learn from the struggle to improve our racial discomfort level, It matures us into empathetic aware and conscious beings
Richardson's book is not exactly a "fun" read but is highly worthwhile. Particularly interesting is how America's racist oligarchs in the South and West have always exploited our favorite myths, such as cowboy-style "rugged individualism."
*Cowboy culture."
Real High Desert/Montane states we call 'em "cowbillies."
excellent comment, "JR-pr8jb".
I read Eric Hoffer books in the 1970's. Great insight into how people become fanatical in their believes.
it took forever for the Northern Oligarchs to convince the Southern Oligarchs,
that is was cheaper to "pay Slave wages to singular chosen persons, regardless of family unit,..
....than pay all the room, board and health expenses for entire Slave groups"..but, they finally got it.
"Tenant farmers pay you, not the other way around." - there's profit in that,..with no real downside.
The irony, which seems as yet not consciously unearthed, is that people’s or human nature’s wish for liberty or freedom, and the American “experiment” the Founders initiated require fully “adult citizens” who see their neighbor’s freedom just as important as their own.
Those who aspire to political power moreso than they do “shared freedom” will not support and encourage freedoms, even as they “mouth” its virtues. The differences between freedom lovers vs. freedom mouthers is the differences between adults and adolescents.
Citizens who aspire to collective social freedoms would do well to judge the maturity of those who aspire to institutional leadership. If we elect adolescents to power in public and private institutions, it is unlikely freedoms will be preserved, at least long-term.
Freedom for me is a no-brainer! Freedom for others is debateable!
The FOLLOWERS of GREED AND EVIL is the danger‼️😈
I have always believed this. Thank you so much❤️
Commentator interruptions are annoying. Let the guest speak
The constant interruptions by the interviewer are so annoying. Why do expert women have to put up with this?
Such as incisive analysis. This was very thought provoking.. Thank you.
He was talking about the elites. The elite white men who at that time literally didn't want the riffraff. To be voters, he was talking about them.
This is such an important talk! Really connected the dots and gaps in our education. I feel very cheated in my public school education and understand how the majority of students have totally missed out on truth.
Outstanding.
Been waiting for this discussion.
And the populating & proliferation of Confederates certainly explains the persistence of Texans & some Rocky Mountain states, then & now.
It was a preacher, not Thomas Jefferson who was inspired to form the keystone; all men are created equal with inalienable rights granted by our Creator, inspiring the world. He was very popular and widely published throughout the colonies; instrumental in forming our republic. He remains the rev. John Wise of Massachusetts.
Jeffrey,
PLEASE stop interrupting Heather. Talking over others is really rude, & greatly detracts from the quality of the presentation. Thank you.
OMG two brilliant people talk together.
Statesman Thomas Jefferson wrote of his plan to end slavery 4 years before the end of the Revolutionary War in 1779. As Governor, He proposed an end of the “abomination” of slavery in 1787; a short 4 years after the Revolutionary War ended and some 75 years before the Civil War. In 1807, President Jefferson proposed, congress passed, and he signed a federal law prohibiting the slave trade in American ships. This did not however stop the trade. The Trade was far too profitable for those involved: banks financing, ships builders, insurance companies, shipping companies, and flesh merchants; and all their employees including; carpenters and blacksmiths, sailors and captains… et al; almost exclusively a northern states economic bastion. They simply dropped the enslaved in Barbados and carried rum to Boston, New York and Philadelphia.
Do we not need Younger Interlocutors with HCR? Going to people, however wise, that have been using the same intellectual muscle for decades. .Needs to be cut with some of the Younger Thinkers, with perspectives of the more recent, with a Horizon focussed far in the Future. Let's pass some of Her Wisdom to different Generations---
and perhaps she'd like to soak in their Perspectives.
Thompson Margaret Allen Michelle Perez Richard
this is an interview from 2-3 years ago; it's not current.
Still applies.
More relevant than ever, given the Confederates in the "Freedom" (Sedition) Caucus.
That's a historical fact and they mostly all know about it
As a descendant of Confederate combat veterans, I'll state that anyone who thinks the CSA in any way won the war given the present size and scope of the federal Leviathan is bereft of understanding what the CSA was fighting against.
Thank you.
This is spacious nonsense. First, Sachs states that January 6th 2021 was the first UNARMED 'insurrection' in history. A proposition so ludicrous as to beggar the imagination. Secondly, Richardson claims that the South 'won' the Civil War. It did not because the racial hierarchy that she rightfully points out ruled in the West is no longer the case. Not to mention that until the 60s, racial hierarchy ruled in the North as well. It was just more obvious in the South and West. So at most, in the aftermath of the Civil War, the Confederacy won a 'battle' but not the war. Racial hierarchy no longer exists in America and no amount of claims by the left can make that untruth... factual.
This is typical of 'intellectuals' whose life experience has been spent in the ivory towers of academia. It doesn't take 'critical thinking' to see the inherent flaws in their propositions, just a bit of common sense.
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Well at least she backs up her ideas unlike wingnut media addicts that can only repeat tv talking points.
@@eatfrenchtoast News flash! Offering reasoned, fact based argument IS backing up one's ideas. 99.9% of the January 6th protesters were unarmed. That's a fact not an idea. The South's economy was dependent upon slave labor not only did slavery end as a result of the Civil War but a century and a half later racism is nearly extinct in America. So there's no basis for claiming that the Confederacy won the war. As for "wing nut media addicts only repeating TV talking points"
"When the debate is lost, the loser resorts to slander" Socrates
In going straight to slander rather than challenging the points I made you demonstrate you're one of those people who would put a Socrates to death.
Multiple Leftist presumptions and unfounded assertions
I was going to suggest reading Richardson's excellent book. Then I thought, "Oops! MAGA? Reading?"
zero specificity, zero justification, zero value. wasted keystrokes.
America is liberal. Love it or leave it wingnut.
Is he going to shill for Putin here also 🤮
Are you thinking of David Sacks or is Jeffery a vatnik too?