Yeah, the US didn't abolish slavery until after 1865, the descendants of those slaves didn't get equal rights till the 1960s, and we're still fighting to get the government, especially our conservative party to recognize those rights, and we're still trying to break down the systems that were built up during slavery and segregation.
@@oliviawolcott8351 Perhaps you'd be inclined as to tell us exactly which rights black Americans have that aren't recognized today? 🤔🤔 Take your time... we'll wait.
@@Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms well, it sounds like you might be trying to bait me, but I'll bite. the best example is the voting rights act. the voting rights act currently is being gutted piece by piece through lawsuits. currently black americans face the possibility of disenfranchisement through redistricting and gerrymandering. and there have been laws passed that make voting more difficult that affect black voters. and lets not forget that US rights are not distributed fairly. black people, especially black men get arrested at a higher rate than white people. they also get longer sentences. police treat them differently to white people. everyday they face racism. inequality, racism and rights go hand in hand. and speaking also to incarceration of black people, Slavery still is legal in the US under the 14th amendment as a punishment for a crime, and forced labor is a reality for people convicted of a crime. and historically, that was created to essentially force freed black people back into slavery. they'd get arrested for crimes such as loitering, or homelessness, or some crime that was made up against them and then they'd be sent to prison work camps to do hard labor. and it still happens today. so much of our food that we buy in stores is made by prison labor either in part or completely. but yeah, that caveat in the 14th amendment alone speaks to not having the same equal rights. oh, and incercerated people do not have the right to vote. so again inequal rights.
The reason we have so many counties is because of an old state law from the 1800s that said that every county seat had to be at most a days horse ride from each other.
A little history: In 1912, Herman Heaton Clay, a descendant of an African-American slave owned by Henry Clay, named his son Cassius Marcellus Clay in tribute to the abolitionist, who had died nine years earlier. This Cassius Clay gave the same name to his son, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., who became an internationally renowned world heavyweight champion boxer. He changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 1964 upon converting to Islam.
& then he changed his name, when you know that history, makes him seem like a jackass. Islam is all that was important for him tho, forget family history, who cares. lmao, sounds like a joke to me but to each their own Boxing career & had a few good quotes, religious bs & everything else? Eh
@@scotthill1600 I mean, uh, Henry Clay was kinda a turd when it came to slavery. He decried slavery yet owned plenty and made many compromises that strengthened slavery (it delayed the Civil War, granted, but uhhh). He owned 50+ slaves and only freed something like 5 of them. Muhammad Ali had every right to be annoyed by his slave name since his family wasn't freed by Cassius but owned by Henry. It's still silly, don't get me wrong, but dude's family was owned by a different Clay than the heroic one. There is room to complain about "a slave name".
@@firstnext5482 guess that’s pretty fair, history is complicated & context is important so thank you for providing some. Seems a lot are “opposed to slavery” at an ideological level but still have slaves, interesting
@@scotthill1600 Most people of note who opposed it ideological but practiced it anyway did so for either political or business reasons. Jefferson ended the importation of slaves from Africa, publicly stated that Slavery was the greatest threat to the stability of the new nation, but refused to free his own CHILDREN born into slavery. Henry Clay was called the Great Compromiser for many reasons- he decried slavery yet owned slaves and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act. Some could argue he was trying to avoid civil war and his actions delayed it but, still, that war was inevitable from the founding of America. Cassius was rare in that regard, where his actions lined up with his words. To carry his name would be honorable but Muhammad Ali's ancestors were willfully enslaved by Henry, not freed by Cassius. It's a messy thing and, at the end of everything, his decision.
If he had known more about why his parents named him that, he might not have changed his name. a lot of things get lost over time if you don't take the time to read up on them. The only thing I like about the internet is the access to pretty much all historical information
By the way, Slavery was being banned on a state level, not nationwide until 1865. The following states followed Vermont (1777, as an independent countryof the time) & Pennsylvania (1779, 1st that's in the US of the time) followed the 2 stated to abolish slavery...... --New Hampshire & Massachusetts 1783 -- Connecticut & Rhode Island in 1785 -- Virginia in 1792 -- Tennessee broke apart of North Carolina to abolish slavery in 1796 -- the state of Ohio was formed in 1803, and almost immediately abolished slavery Since the War of 1812, the following states abolished slavery until the American Civil War.... Indiana (1816), Illinois (1818), Michigan (1836), Wisconsin (1848), and Minnesota in 1858
He also makes angry cops unhinged. When he gets AC going out comes the popcorn. Both of AC's streams with Nick have gone that way, and he does it when they're on unsub together. It was so funny watching AC ranting and raving and Nick is just sitting there with this smug shit eating grin on his face like "yup, I did this"
@@frankisfunny2007who cares, glad slavery is over, oh wait, there are more slaves now than when it was legal. But yeah all those dates, fascinating ig, don’t really care. Big fan of history but slave history & state by state when it ended? Pretty useless info Not much to write home ab w slaves other than the cruelty & mistreatment, they weren’t doing anything important or significant besides suffering through horrible mistreatment. Feel bad for them? Sure, care what they did on a day to day basis? No. What they picked cotton for 25 years straight everyday? Fascinating. Oooooo Leroy got promoted to a house slave, gonna write a paper ab this!
I really appreciate you. I'm a seventy-two year old guy from Chicago in the USA. It takes a guy from Northern Ireland to teach me about one of the greatest heroes in American history.
Watch fat electrician videos im a history buff and ive learned alot of our heros that seem to have been overlooked by mainstream history. Like alot of people think america over reacting to people toucbing our boats started in ww2. Naw that started like 10 years after we become a country. America basically ended the goolden age if piracy cus. They touched our boats
The crazy part is, America has had a lot of people like this, both well known and unknown. While I dont generally believe in patriotism, it is undeniable that patriots have the most fightinest spirits out there. I dont just mean America patriots either, I mean patriots in any country. There's so many truly and fully dedicated people like this, and none of them get the credit they deserve. People willing to fight for what they think is right. I appreciate TFE and other history channels for making sure these people's stories are told to a wide audience.
The man literally had Plot Armor. Theres no other way around it. He excelled in the time of "lets have a gun fight about it" and lived till 92. Im not gonna make it till 92 and I have modern health care.
@@MoreAdamCouser There's also active slave markets on the african continent, though I can't point to any specific country, with how little infrastructure there is across the continent there could be dozens we'd never hear about.
5:00 :A neat thing about duels in the olden days, was that once you're standing across from someone pointing a gun at you, both sides tend to reevaluate whether their argument was worth it, and many duels actually resulted in compromise before shots were fired...
yeah, the duels hes talking about in this video are literal duels where people actually fight until someone either dies or gets too injured to keep fighting... when nick said "putting slave owners in the dirt" it was literal...
Honestly you can pick any video on this guys channel and youll be in for a good time. Id recommend his other "The Most Gangster" video, which is "The Most Gangster Marine of All Time - Dan Daly"
I think some states in the US still have laws that allow duels, but they have to be unarmed (no weapons), they can't result in death or mayhem, and they have to be adjudicated. It's probably a case of those states simply not removing some old laws that allow the duels to take place. Basically, it's a limited fight okayed by the law as long as you follow some rules.
Yup, his name is Nick! And I highly recommend any of his videos. The Filthy 13 is a great story, as is War Daddy, and soooo many others. And yes, as you figured out, it was indeed Red Dead Redemtion type duel. Lol! I'm sooo here for more of Nick's vids! Also, Angry Cops (Rich) is a great channel that does hilarious roasts of different stupid ish and eff ups of military and people that take advantage of them. They are sooo funny. Rich and Nick are friends. They all do a hilarious long form podcast together w Donut Operator (Cody) Brandon Herrera, and Eli Doubletap and a variety of different guests called the Unsubscribe Podcast that you would prolly love too. But they are long form and something you'd likely want to watch on your own time. Just...I think you'd laugh as much as I do. So, a suggestion but not for reacting to lol! Sending blessings from Alabama!
Oh, if you like his stuff, do the one on the stockpile of government cheese!! hahaha... i remember those blocks of cheese from my childhood. It's a crazy story. :D
If anyone could turn "putting someone in the dirt" into a political idiom that doesn't involve literally putting them into the dirt, britain would do it before america.
Duels should come back BIG TIME, it would cause a LOT of life time politicians to either straighten up their shit or cause them to just run away completely
That ad read transition was PERFECT. Amazing job man. Something that whole reactors should participate in, can be edited out like that(and his ad reads are great)
bear in mind, Muhamed Ali was originally named "Cassius Clay" but decided it was a "slave name" and changed it. If he KNEW who he was named after, he might have felt differently
A good UA-camr that I’ve been watching for a bit finally stumbled on my fav channel on all of yt. Adam I love ur content man but fat electrician is f***ing hilarious 😂
One thing to keep in mind is that there were a lot of fees associated with emancipation at the time which meant that when Cassius freed his slaves his loss wasn't in terms of his net worth going down, it was because he had to pay a lot of money to stop owning people. Its why a lot of free blacks owned members of their family or anti-slavery individuals in general owned slaves; it was much cheaper to buy someone and let them live a free life than it was to buy someone and legally free them. Or you inherited them and it would cost more than your net worth to free them so if you tried you literally couldn't.
Lets not forget this: It only ended slavery in the states that were in REBELLION AGAINST the US government. Not the slave states that remained. Which there were a few. Those slaves remained slaves. So...the when people cry about the rebel flag being about slavery, and it was, the US flag flew over slavery much longer. Before, during & after the civil war.
If you knew American history, the thing you would have reacted to was Henry Clay, not the result of the trial. The greatest American politician to have never been president by hundreds of miles. Two real f'ing heroes.
Now you need to watch the Fat Electrician's story of Reckless, America's War Horse or as a citizen of the UK his story about the most gangster old veteran who told 700 Redcoats to get off his lawn. I love Nick and your reactions to him are amazing.
2:41 Nope you were right the first time. Absolutely an actual fight duel lol 4:25 the 13th amendment (the abolition of slavery in the US) was officially passed January 31,1865. Absolutely not that long ago, and one of the reasons civil rights was such a huge fight in our nation afterwards even up through recent times.
Boy the British have absolutely no room to talk, they’re some of the worst in history. We Americans are rookies compared to the British in war crimes & atrocities, I don’t really care but seems the morally outraged do
@@jamescheddar4896Why should they feel any guilt though? White people also fought AGAINST slavery and they never teach that Africans were the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade as they sold their own people to the Europeans. So if we’re talking about “guilt” then everyone in the world should feel guilty as everyone has ancestors that did horrible BS.
@@codygates7418 The impoverished communities just drop out of school in USA, any history education they got didn't cover the late 19th/20th century immigrant wave where having an irish accent actually would have you getting talked down to by black people
@@jamescheddar4896 I know about how immigrants were treated (specially the Eastern Europeans, Irish, and Italians). I mean the Italians (and sometimes even Irish) were targeted by the KKK. Many even anti-Black Americans thought that Black Americans were more “American” than these new comers even though they were the same skin color as the anti-Black individuals.
The problem with bringing duels back, Then the person who is quicker and better with a weapon will win the argument. Not necessarily the person that is right. That opens up a huge door. Gunslingers could effectively do whatever the hell they wanted. Because whomever is going to stop them, will get killed. And the only real threat, is other gunslingers.
Yes, it's that kind of duel. Bro was (legally) stacking bodies. Also, yes. We kinda had a 4 year armed "disagreement" over slavery (and some other issues that were also very important, but much less talked about) from 1861 and 1865. Relatively recent to European history, but our country was less than 100 years old at this point. Two very different time scales, but man have we made good use of the time we had... I think we've only spent ~20 years of our entire history NOT at war.
Not only was he a committed abolitionist and a hell of a fighter, Cassius Clay was a renowned ladies’ man. While he was U.S. Ambassador to the Russian court, he was going through Russian noblewomen like a 3-balled tomcat. And whenever anyone objected to it he’d challenge them to a duel and watch them crawl away with their tail between their legs.
The sad thing is Nick is right, no one knows about Cassius Clay. Our schools don't teach about him. I knew of him because my grandfather told me about him. You see, my grandfather told me that the reason no one talks about Cassius Clay is that men today can not measure up to the standards of being a man like Cassius Clay. He also taught me that I should live my life to try to measure up to such standards. Even if one can't reach those lofty heights, one should always strive to do so.
"Political duel"? Bro in the states we only ever had the deadly version. Occasionally gentlemen would agree to fire at the dirt or not load balls in the barrels. But for the most part.... call the grim reaper it's time to toll the bell.
I understand what you mean. Being able to just say "Let's fight about it" to settle something is as old as time, and legitimate as far as I'm concerned. If you think you can back up your point with your body, then by all means.
I'm a Kentuckian we here in the commonwealth know all about him, his influence is here today however my family was on the confederate side, don't know if he killed any of my ancestors but I'm sure they were aware of his reputation.
$hit gets real when the "hill you'll die on" becomes literal instead of metaphorical. maybe we should make it where our views are subject to literal life and death consequence
If we brought back political dueling there would be a lot less "career politicians". We will still have politicians but not lifetime ones, so a win overall.
Mohammad Ali said an interview that Cassius clay was his slave name . I knew enough at the time to think that was ironic being that Cassius clay was a famous abolitionist. but then I still had a fat electrician video and I couldn’t believe how ironic it was. I think Muhammad Ali would’ve seen this video. He would have kept the name.
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Yeah, the US didn't abolish slavery until after 1865, the descendants of those slaves didn't get equal rights till the 1960s, and we're still fighting to get the government, especially our conservative party to recognize those rights, and we're still trying to break down the systems that were built up during slavery and segregation.
one thing not mentioned is that one of the slaves cassius clay freed was mohammed Ali's grandfather. Mohammed Ali's birth name was Cassius Clay.
@@oliviawolcott8351 Perhaps you'd be inclined as to tell us exactly which rights black Americans have that aren't recognized today? 🤔🤔
Take your time... we'll wait.
@@Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms well, it sounds like you might be trying to bait me, but I'll bite. the best example is the voting rights act. the voting rights act currently is being gutted piece by piece through lawsuits. currently black americans face the possibility of disenfranchisement through redistricting and gerrymandering. and there have been laws passed that make voting more difficult that affect black voters.
and lets not forget that US rights are not distributed fairly. black people, especially black men get arrested at a higher rate than white people. they also get longer sentences. police treat them differently to white people. everyday they face racism. inequality, racism and rights go hand in hand. and speaking also to incarceration of black people, Slavery still is legal in the US under the 14th amendment as a punishment for a crime, and forced labor is a reality for people convicted of a crime. and historically, that was created to essentially force freed black people back into slavery. they'd get arrested for crimes such as loitering, or homelessness, or some crime that was made up against them and then they'd be sent to prison work camps to do hard labor. and it still happens today. so much of our food that we buy in stores is made by prison labor either in part or completely. but yeah, that caveat in the 14th amendment alone speaks to not having the same equal rights. oh, and incercerated people do not have the right to vote. so again inequal rights.
This is America, Dude. When he said "he was putting slave owners in the dirt", that was EXACTLY what he did.
"utilized his home defense cannon" is the most American thing ever.
Nothing more than a very large musket. 😂😂🤣🤣
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I am a Kentuckian. It is not uncommon to hear a “he needed killin’” argument to defend a murderer. We also have 120 counties, mostly due to feuds.
I was born in Kentucky too. Most of my family is still there. I’ve heard “ he just needed killin” before lol❤️🤗🐝
There are really 120 counties in Kentucky? Holy smokes.
@@bullish3584 Yes. It’s not even a big state, but we have that many counties.
@@bullish3584 Imagine what HS Football rivalries are like in KY!!!
The reason we have so many counties is because of an old state law from the 1800s that said that every county seat had to be at most a days horse ride from each other.
Fun fact "dueling" was an Olympic sport in the olympics in the early 1900s, participants would shoot at each other with wax bullets.
Fuck man, they should bring that back, wtf
A little history: In 1912, Herman Heaton Clay, a descendant of an African-American slave owned by Henry Clay, named his son Cassius Marcellus Clay in tribute to the abolitionist, who had died nine years earlier. This Cassius Clay gave the same name to his son, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., who became an internationally renowned world heavyweight champion boxer. He changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 1964 upon converting to Islam.
& then he changed his name, when you know that history, makes him seem like a jackass. Islam is all that was important for him tho, forget family history, who cares. lmao, sounds like a joke to me but to each their own
Boxing career & had a few good quotes, religious bs & everything else? Eh
@@scotthill1600 I mean, uh, Henry Clay was kinda a turd when it came to slavery. He decried slavery yet owned plenty and made many compromises that strengthened slavery (it delayed the Civil War, granted, but uhhh). He owned 50+ slaves and only freed something like 5 of them. Muhammad Ali had every right to be annoyed by his slave name since his family wasn't freed by Cassius but owned by Henry.
It's still silly, don't get me wrong, but dude's family was owned by a different Clay than the heroic one. There is room to complain about "a slave name".
@@firstnext5482 guess that’s pretty fair, history is complicated & context is important so thank you for providing some. Seems a lot are “opposed to slavery” at an ideological level but still have slaves, interesting
@@scotthill1600 Most people of note who opposed it ideological but practiced it anyway did so for either political or business reasons. Jefferson ended the importation of slaves from Africa, publicly stated that Slavery was the greatest threat to the stability of the new nation, but refused to free his own CHILDREN born into slavery.
Henry Clay was called the Great Compromiser for many reasons- he decried slavery yet owned slaves and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act. Some could argue he was trying to avoid civil war and his actions delayed it but, still, that war was inevitable from the founding of America.
Cassius was rare in that regard, where his actions lined up with his words. To carry his name would be honorable but Muhammad Ali's ancestors were willfully enslaved by Henry, not freed by Cassius. It's a messy thing and, at the end of everything, his decision.
Absolutely stunned. How friggin' cool!
I am absolutely shocked that this story is not included in American History! I'm in my 60s and never knew any of this!
Highest Honors to Cassius Clay
He was mentioned in my US history class on a list of abolitionist with Fredrick Douglas and others
Yea new to me as well. Highest honors indeed.
The boxer Mohamad Ali's birth name was Cassius Clay, he changed it when he converted to Islam.
Which was a stupid decision, IMHO.
@@johnmiller2689 Draft dodging islamist gonna do draft dodging islamist things.
Everytime I searched his name Ali was popping up 🤣
If he had known more about why his parents named him that, he might not have changed his name. a lot of things get lost over time if you don't take the time to read up on them. The only thing I like about the internet is the access to pretty much all historical information
so he dropped the name of a great man and took on the name of a pedo prophet
Nick (Fat Electrician) also has a video on whatever is on his mind called "Fat Files". If you're wondering, yes, he gets unhinged.
By the way, Slavery was being banned on a state level, not nationwide until 1865.
The following states followed Vermont (1777, as an independent countryof the time) & Pennsylvania (1779, 1st that's in the US of the time) followed the 2 stated to abolish slavery......
--New Hampshire & Massachusetts 1783
-- Connecticut & Rhode Island in 1785
-- Virginia in 1792
-- Tennessee broke apart of North Carolina to abolish slavery in 1796
-- the state of Ohio was formed in 1803, and almost immediately abolished slavery
Since the War of 1812, the following states abolished slavery until the American Civil War.... Indiana (1816), Illinois (1818), Michigan (1836), Wisconsin (1848), and Minnesota in 1858
He also makes angry cops unhinged. When he gets AC going out comes the popcorn. Both of AC's streams with Nick have gone that way, and he does it when they're on unsub together. It was so funny watching AC ranting and raving and Nick is just sitting there with this smug shit eating grin on his face like "yup, I did this"
@@frankisfunny2007who cares, glad slavery is over, oh wait, there are more slaves now than when it was legal. But yeah all those dates, fascinating ig, don’t really care. Big fan of history but slave history & state by state when it ended? Pretty useless info
Not much to write home ab w slaves other than the cruelty & mistreatment, they weren’t doing anything important or significant besides suffering through horrible mistreatment. Feel bad for them? Sure, care what they did on a day to day basis? No. What they picked cotton for 25 years straight everyday? Fascinating. Oooooo Leroy got promoted to a house slave, gonna write a paper ab this!
@@m2hmghb The others get him back tho, just bring up Communism and his history class and watch him go
@@captin3149 True, but not even half of what he does to AC.
7:20 Or in Kentucky speak "Was a fair fight, we's legal"
Very cosmopolitan.
Ahhhhh its good to see a fellow pair of sophisticants
@@dropkick9517 Why, that's just my game...
This would be the best miniseries Netflix ever produced.
I really appreciate you. I'm a seventy-two year old guy from Chicago in the USA. It takes a guy from Northern Ireland to teach me about one of the greatest heroes in American history.
I love this 😂
Watch fat electrician videos im a history buff and ive learned alot of our heros that seem to have been overlooked by mainstream history. Like alot of people think america over reacting to people toucbing our boats started in ww2. Naw that started like 10 years after we become a country. America basically ended the goolden age if piracy cus. They touched our boats
go to his podcast him and the other 3 talk about anything and everything over drinks obviously with the same lvl of humor well dark humor
Cassius Clay, the most gangster American you've likely never heard of.
Legend
The crazy part is, America has had a lot of people like this, both well known and unknown. While I dont generally believe in patriotism, it is undeniable that patriots have the most fightinest spirits out there. I dont just mean America patriots either, I mean patriots in any country. There's so many truly and fully dedicated people like this, and none of them get the credit they deserve. People willing to fight for what they think is right.
I appreciate TFE and other history channels for making sure these people's stories are told to a wide audience.
The man literally had Plot Armor. Theres no other way around it. He excelled in the time of "lets have a gun fight about it" and lived till 92. Im not gonna make it till 92 and I have modern health care.
Adam, there's still modern forms of slavery going on today.
Really?
@@MoreAdamCouser yes
@@MoreAdamCouserMostly in Africa and the Middle East.
Yep, there are countries like Saudi Arabia that didn't ban slavery until 1962. But it's still known to have modern slaves.
@@MoreAdamCouser There's also active slave markets on the african continent, though I can't point to any specific country, with how little infrastructure there is across the continent there could be dozens we'd never hear about.
Yes, Cassius was killing others in duels using guns.
5:00 :A neat thing about duels in the olden days, was that once you're standing across from someone pointing a gun at you, both sides tend to reevaluate whether their argument was worth it, and many duels actually resulted in compromise before shots were fired...
yeah, the duels hes talking about in this video are literal duels where people actually fight until someone either dies or gets too injured to keep fighting... when nick said "putting slave owners in the dirt" it was literal...
Honestly you can pick any video on this guys channel and youll be in for a good time. Id recommend his other "The Most Gangster" video, which is "The Most Gangster Marine of All Time - Dan Daly"
The eggnog affair is hands down the whakiest
Another great video from Adam. 💚💚💚💚
Yesssss!!! More fat electrician reactions!!! He was an army combat medic like I did from 2002-2016. Cheers mate!!
Marine corpsman actually.
I think some states in the US still have laws that allow duels, but they have to be unarmed (no weapons), they can't result in death or mayhem, and they have to be adjudicated. It's probably a case of those states simply not removing some old laws that allow the duels to take place.
Basically, it's a limited fight okayed by the law as long as you follow some rules.
Dang Adam! This is the good stuff. You need to do more on TFE.
Yup, his name is Nick! And I highly recommend any of his videos. The Filthy 13 is a great story, as is War Daddy, and soooo many others.
And yes, as you figured out, it was indeed Red Dead Redemtion type duel. Lol!
I'm sooo here for more of Nick's vids! Also, Angry Cops (Rich) is a great channel that does hilarious roasts of different stupid ish and eff ups of military and people that take advantage of them. They are sooo funny. Rich and Nick are friends. They all do a hilarious long form podcast together w Donut Operator (Cody) Brandon Herrera, and Eli Doubletap and a variety of different guests called the Unsubscribe Podcast that you would prolly love too. But they are long form and something you'd likely want to watch on your own time. Just...I think you'd laugh as much as I do. So, a suggestion but not for reacting to lol!
Sending blessings from Alabama!
I thought it was Nic.
@@Ron-d2s it is Nic. My stupid autocorrect got it and I didn't catch it! Lol! Thank you!!!!
Bro. This is America. It WAS a DUEL. Get your f-ing gun and lets GO! It wasn't TALK. It was GUNS.
TFE is from my hime state! Love all his content! Love that you're watching him!!!
It's that type of duel
When you FF past the ad, you missed the part where Mohammed Ali was named after Cassius Clay.
Oh, if you like his stuff, do the one on the stockpile of government cheese!! hahaha... i remember those blocks of cheese from my childhood. It's a crazy story. :D
If anyone could turn "putting someone in the dirt" into a political idiom that doesn't involve literally putting them into the dirt, britain would do it before america.
This was awesome! Great reaction!✌🏻🫶🏻
Boy was he right lol. I didn’t know any of this. Great video.
& you found the story on this channel? Dude expand your yt horizons, start w some more fat electrician videos
Great reaction Adam, keep up the good work.
Duels should come back BIG TIME, it would cause a LOT of life time politicians to either straighten up their shit or cause them to just run away completely
That ad read transition was PERFECT. Amazing job man. Something that whole reactors should participate in, can be edited out like that(and his ad reads are great)
bear in mind, Muhamed Ali was originally named "Cassius Clay" but decided it was a "slave name" and changed it. If he KNEW who he was named after, he might have felt differently
Beautiful reaction.. I love this story, The Fat Electrician, and you.. xo
A good UA-camr that I’ve been watching for a bit finally stumbled on my fav channel on all of yt. Adam I love ur content man but fat electrician is f***ing hilarious 😂
He definitely was unaliving people.
Definitely do more of his videos. This is one of his best but there are so many more
This man was a true legend and its a shame that until Nick no ones ever taught about him to people
He's not bullshitting. Here we have a building, the Clay House.
No, Nic means literal duels. Pow pow duels.
I highly recommend you react to his video on the USS New Jersey and his other video on the battle of Wake Island.
Great story, i always thought Mohammad Ali was the only Casius Clay
TFE always delivers on his stories!
One thing to keep in mind is that there were a lot of fees associated with emancipation at the time which meant that when Cassius freed his slaves his loss wasn't in terms of his net worth going down, it was because he had to pay a lot of money to stop owning people.
Its why a lot of free blacks owned members of their family or anti-slavery individuals in general owned slaves; it was much cheaper to buy someone and let them live a free life than it was to buy someone and legally free them. Or you inherited them and it would cost more than your net worth to free them so if you tried you literally couldn't.
Host: We should consider bringing back duels.
Americans: What do you mean "bring back"?
Love Fat Electrician!!! Best history teller ever!!! Thanks Adam. Peace out!
LOVE watching your reactions
Cassius Clay was a certified badass
Part of Kentucky was pro-slavery. The other part was anti-slavery. That is one reason Kentucky remained neutral in the Civil War.
You don’t have to call him The Fat Electrician. Just call him Chubby Electron Guy instead lol
For the duels, I was under the impression it was swords, not guns. But otherwise you had it completely right the first time.
Sing it with me, boys...
"Aaaaaame-eee-eeeriiii-caaaaa!
AAAAMEEEE-eeee-eeeee-RIII-CAAAAAAA!
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!"
Dude, Britain only abolished slavery in 1834. That's about twenty-eight years before Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
And it was abolished in several states before then. Indiana ended slavery in 1820.
Lets not forget this:
It only ended slavery in the states that were in REBELLION AGAINST the US government. Not the slave states that remained. Which there were a few.
Those slaves remained slaves. So...the when people cry about the rebel flag being about slavery, and it was, the US flag flew over slavery much longer. Before, during & after the civil war.
And they continued to use child labor past the 1860s and beyond. It didn't really end until nearly the turn of the 20th century.
@@SoulKiller7EternalThe 13th Amendment outlawing slavery was ratified in 1865.
Not in their empire, it was still practiced throught it.
If you feel bad about "The Fat Electrician" you can always call him "Chubby Electron Guy"... he loves it
IMO duels could solve the "woke" problem...
No they would all be in their safe spaces hugging a therapy pet waiting for a participation medal😂❤😂
Yall seem to think "woke" people don't buy, own, and use firearms. We do. Legally. Yall don't own gun ownership.
Cassius Clay ROCKS! Fuck man I didn't know about this but this is being a force for humanity.
Those were in fact honest to God duels, where usually only one of the participants walks away
If you knew American history, the thing you would have reacted to was Henry Clay, not the result of the trial. The greatest American politician to have never been president by hundreds of miles.
Two real f'ing heroes.
I recommend you watch The Fat Electrician Sergeant Reckless next. It’s one of the best ever.
There's really no way of knowing, but I wonder how many men would have died if Clay was an emancipationist.
No I'm pretty sure it was a traditional duel where he just shot everyone
Now you need to watch the Fat Electrician's story of Reckless, America's War Horse or as a citizen of the UK his story about the most gangster old veteran who told 700 Redcoats to get off his lawn. I love Nick and your reactions to him are amazing.
The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, freeing the slaves. Great Britain abolished slavery in 1834.
You can also just call him the Chubby Electron Man
Please tell me youre gonna do more reactions of the fat electrician, he has an entire military playlist
Basically slavery was never illegal until the British declared it so the first time.
The Chubby Electron Guy doesn't mind being call the Fat Electrician. No worries.
2:41 Nope you were right the first time. Absolutely an actual fight duel lol
4:25 the 13th amendment (the abolition of slavery in the US) was officially passed January 31,1865. Absolutely not that long ago, and one of the reasons civil rights was such a huge fight in our nation afterwards even up through recent times.
happened in the UK too they just don't try to make little white children break into guilt tears during history class in europe
Boy the British have absolutely no room to talk, they’re some of the worst in history. We Americans are rookies compared to the British in war crimes & atrocities, I don’t really care but seems the morally outraged do
@@jamescheddar4896Why should they feel any guilt though? White people also fought AGAINST slavery and they never teach that Africans were the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade as they sold their own people to the Europeans. So if we’re talking about “guilt” then everyone in the world should feel guilty as everyone has ancestors that did horrible BS.
@@codygates7418 The impoverished communities just drop out of school in USA, any history education they got didn't cover the late 19th/20th century immigrant wave where having an irish accent actually would have you getting talked down to by black people
@@jamescheddar4896 I know about how immigrants were treated (specially the Eastern Europeans, Irish, and Italians). I mean the Italians (and sometimes even Irish) were targeted by the KKK. Many even anti-Black Americans thought that Black Americans were more “American” than these new comers even though they were the same skin color as the anti-Black individuals.
no no, you were right on both counts. as an american i can confirm our politics are often settled with guns
I'm recommending *The Most Gangster Marine Of All Time - Dan Daly.* That was a good one.
Guy tried to kill him. He defended himself. Open and shut.
He put them in the dirt. Meaning they had to be buried. 😂
The problem with bringing duels back,
Then the person who is quicker and better with a weapon will win the argument. Not necessarily the person that is right. That opens up a huge door.
Gunslingers could effectively do whatever the hell they wanted. Because whomever is going to stop them, will get killed. And the only real threat, is other gunslingers.
Cassius was truly a fucking menace in the best ways.
Yes, it's that kind of duel. Bro was (legally) stacking bodies.
Also, yes. We kinda had a 4 year armed "disagreement" over slavery (and some other issues that were also very important, but much less talked about) from 1861 and 1865. Relatively recent to European history, but our country was less than 100 years old at this point. Two very different time scales, but man have we made good use of the time we had... I think we've only spent ~20 years of our entire history NOT at war.
My dad's name is Clay. I remember hearing stories of Cassius Clay growing up.
Not only was he a committed abolitionist and a hell of a fighter, Cassius Clay was a renowned ladies’ man. While he was U.S. Ambassador to the Russian court, he was going through Russian noblewomen like a 3-balled tomcat. And whenever anyone objected to it he’d challenge them to a duel and watch them crawl away with their tail between their legs.
I scrolled pretty far down and didnt see it at a glance at least, but yes Nic really named his kid after C.C.
Wheelgun last man breathing duel my guy
The sad thing is Nick is right, no one knows about Cassius Clay. Our schools don't teach about him. I knew of him because my grandfather told me about him. You see, my grandfather told me that the reason no one talks about Cassius Clay is that men today can not measure up to the standards of being a man like Cassius Clay. He also taught me that I should live my life to try to measure up to such standards. Even if one can't reach those lofty heights, one should always strive to do so.
I never knew this story! Bad ass. Why did Muhammad Ali change his name from CC? THAT WAS not a slave name 😢
He converted to Islam.
"Political duel"? Bro in the states we only ever had the deadly version. Occasionally gentlemen would agree to fire at the dirt or not load balls in the barrels.
But for the most part.... call the grim reaper it's time to toll the bell.
I understand what you mean. Being able to just say "Let's fight about it" to settle something is as old as time, and legitimate as far as I'm concerned. If you think you can back up your point with your body, then by all means.
Grew up in Kentucky. We learned about Cassius Clay as part of Kentucky history when I was in elementary school.
More people should do this video. Godd on you.
I'm a Kentuckian we here in the commonwealth know all about him, his influence is here today however my family was on the confederate side, don't know if he killed any of my ancestors but I'm sure they were aware of his reputation.
$hit gets real when the "hill you'll die on" becomes literal instead of metaphorical. maybe we should make it where our views are subject to literal life and death consequence
Yes. It’s that type of duel. 👍🏻
With permission granted by the governor of Boston it is legal to duel in the Boston commons
This was really good!
If we brought back political dueling there would be a lot less "career politicians".
We will still have politicians but not lifetime ones, so a win overall.
Definitely bring back duels.
If you feel bad about calling him the fat electrician, you can always go with chubby power ranger
Mohammad Ali said an interview that Cassius clay was his slave name . I knew enough at the time to think that was ironic being that Cassius clay was a famous abolitionist. but then I still had a fat electrician video and I couldn’t believe how ironic it was. I think Muhammad Ali would’ve seen this video. He would have kept the name.
There were two Cassius Clays?!
"This is one of the craziest things I've ever heard". No, not yet, he is only HALFWAY done after the newspaper.
Hey adam you should react to the home front's video when Canadians hear the word war
hey, if two grown up men want to go at each other in a scantioned duel with pistols and/or rapiers, it should be their decision