Franklin actually did comment on the Somerset ruling and what he said is really no help to Holton and the NYT’s argument: “It is said that some generous humane persons subscribed to the expence of obtaining liberty by law for Somerset the Negro. It is to be wished that the same humanity may extend itself among numbers; if not to the procuring liberty for those that remain in our Colonies, at least to obtain a law for abolishing the African commerce in Slaves, and declaring the children of present Slaves free after they become of age…Pharisaical Britain! to pride thyself in setting free a single Slave that happens to land on thy coasts, while thy Merchants in all thy ports are encouraged by thy laws to continue a commerce whereby so many hundreds of thousands are dragged into a slavery that can scarce be said to end with their lives, since it is entailed on their posterity!”

You can pull all sorts of quotes from the colonists and revolutionaries where they agonize over Dunmore's proclamation and even figures as large as Washington did not hesitate to call him, potentially, "the most formidable enemy America has." But what I'm not sure what the significance is of colonists feeling threatened by a British war strategy to incite enslaved people and Indians to revolt against them, I don't know what is so revelatory about that. The thesis that Holton is trying to prove is that the colonists revolted to preserve slavery, or at least that it was one of the important causes of the revolt. So what has to be proven is not that the colonists opposed the British strategy that itself was a half-step in a single colony in 1775 and then only broadened to the other colonies out of desperation in 1779, what has to be proven is that the colonists believed that the continuance of British rule would inevitably and inexhorably lead to the eventual abolition of slavery in America. That the colonists believed that abolition would eventually be just another policy foisted upon them by their "virtual representatives" in Parliament 3000 miles away. So what would be relevant here would not be a British strategy that only makes sense for the Crown in the context of war but a potential British policy that could be enacted during peacetime. Holton pulls 76 quotes that definitely prove that the colonists were incensed by the Proclamation. But can he pull a single one that demonstrates any of the revolutionaries' disquiet regarding the Somerset decision of 1772 that essentially prohibited slavery within England (but importantly, not throughout the Empire)? The rumblings of revolution were already well underway at that point of course but I suppose that timing doesn't matter for Holton and others when we are focusing so intently on the war-causing consequences of a proclamation that was issued nearly seven months after Lexington and Concord and two months after the Crown's proclamation that the colonies were already in a state of rebellion. I also just want to say that Holton's intervention into this debate is of course very political but what upsets me as someone also on the political left is that while Gordon Wood's works had real political utility to the American liberal establishment, particularly in terms of undermining the basis for originalist legal theory, whether that was Wood's intention or not, Holton's work does not help the cause like he thinks it does. I am not sure what is so unifying about developing an educational approach to American history that erroneously emphasizes that one of the primary reasons why this country established independence from its colonial ruler was to preserve the enslavement of one-fifth of the population, the descendants of whom are now free but still labor against a double consciousness that alienates them from a society that has yet to right past wrongs.

My favorite movie at the time, still love it.

Very informative. Thank you.

Beautifully done. Thankyou.

My new book, "...to rescue from oblivion,": Solving the Mystery of the Olustee Union Dead, is now available on amazon by searching for the title. In it I challenge a number of Gannon's unsupported claims as seen in this video, offering archival sources instead of opinions asserted as fact.

More Civil War personality became for me more positive as Burnside and Butler. I gave a summary about the balance of Butler activity in Louisiana: The nowdays historians say his balance was positive: Positive: Before Butler the average dead people from Yellow fewer was yearly about 1500 human being after Butler organized measures there were only 2 dead people. He did that what dr. Gorgas did at the Panama channel building about 1900 ! No famine for 170 000 civilians and job for the Poor! White prounionist could join New England and Midwest regiments, later white prounionist regiments with exslave team workers, cooks for the Army and he founded (2 infantry 1 cavalry and 1 TEXAN CAVALRY!! white prounionst regiments) and before January of 1863 three African American infantry regiments. The economic life was restarted. His contraband idea was used in South Louisiana too. The Southerners say negative the women order, but the city big European immigrant (70 000 from 170 000) and Cajun population were in majority neutral and some of them prounionists. The Confederate supporter women poured the night pot on the soldiers and sailors from the window or spit them and other hostily action were. The majority women did not want to take part of these type resistance. The 28th General Order stopped the etical push from the proconfederate women to the majority women who wanted modus vivendi in the occupation. Negative: Corruption, Butler brought his brother to New Orleans and he organized smuggler actions and other corruption, Butler got money from his brother. The silverware stealing I think an exaggeration and urban legend. The capital punishment for tearing down the Union flag from the Federal Mint by a gambler Mumford. (I would have changed Mumford with a federal prisoner of war soldier to say he did military axtion!) Churches needlessly closed because they didn't say a prayer for Lincoln. (I would have thought that it could be 2 things, either a prayer for Lincoln or neither Lincoln nor Jefferson Davis.) Threat of diplomatic immunity of the French, British and Dutch consules for good connection with the Confederate government, which caused his downfall in New Orleans. (He did not know the diplomatic rules well.) The balance is positive= No famine, only 2 dead in yellow fever (Fantastic before dr. Gorgas 1900), prounionist soldiers. Black team workers, African American regiments, job for the POOR (ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT!), restarted economical life= humorouse the sugarcane planters discovered the Morill import tariff helped his economical success and understood they would be able to pay the exslave workers after any emancipation (31. January 1865). www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/336_nicholas_c.pdf

Many historians think the turning point of the Civil War for the Union became a two aims war for the Union and the Emancipation together started in the fort Monroe with Butler's brilliant contraband idea! The first step to 31th January of 1865.

Good video, will buy the book.

Very enjoyable discussion, thank you.

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Blacks may not had been welcomed but while growing up we weren’t exposed to the racism that existed in Boston. I grew up in Dorchester then Jamaica Plain and we were bussed to Brighton for middle and high school. Many of my best friends were white and from Southie but I couldn’t go to their neighborhood and they could not come to mine. Strange right. But it was not us kids who promoted discrimination and racist tendencies. Sadly it was the parents caught up in the bussing crisis. I have many great childhood stories to tell about my upbringing as a Bostonian. Segregation tried to destroy the city but my generation wouldn’t allow it 😊 We wanted no parts of it!

As a teenager I remember on Easter we would go to the movies and across the street was the pussy cat club that always remains a fixture in my mind. That was during the mid 70’s and 80’s. The Combat Zone 😂

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I love McCullough. He’s my favorite history writer and I have 8 of his books and love them. But if you watch one interview you watch them all. He recycles the same jokes and clever lines over and over and over. His poor wife. “No one ever asks ‘how much time do you spend thinking?’”

why dont we as a people consume all the of the story of how America came to be?-It is so exciting!

It’s an absolute joy to listen to such a vibrant, insightful human being.

Love hearing how these top medal collectors started collecting. They still have their passion for collecting.

Absolute masterpiece here. Thank you Mr McCulloch.....

I honestly thought they were in a room of young college students!!! I hope the youth are paying attention to their politics.....

no one should ever listen to Jacqueline Jones she is an absolute liar

This was excellent!!

My dear sir... "Aaaaa" does not have to follow after every word 🤣🤣🤣. Next time, rehearse before you film 🤙🤙🤙

Actually, Im descendant of Puritan New Englanders (my great grandmother was a very religious woman Lay Leader in Colorado)... Actually, she descendent of people like Edward Wightman (the last radical protestant burnt in stake)... His sons moved to New England .. Whom ideas related to Jewish Theology as we know... There is an association... My father wanted to circunise me for religious issues (my mother's family negated but he expressed that "just in case" (to save the soul?))... Interesting video! Thanks!

Just terrific ❤

The sound on this is very low.

23:30 sewall visited Jewish synagogue in London

My ancestors have a historical house museum in Amesbury Massachusetts it’s a small colonial house called the Macy - Colby house. My great grandparents 16x past were Anthony and Suzannah Colby. We have had a few Colby family reunions there over the years. Colby’s from all over the country come. It’s really nice. I love seeing my long time ancestors belongings and seeing how they lived and looked.

play this in car so kids can listen Inspiring

Hoy me enteré de la existencia de Phillis, que interesante su reconocimiento siendo afroamericana.

Came here as a brit thinking i kinda expext some others to know about the great fire of London so i should learn too

Excellent book, thank you for the fascinating conversation

She said it was raining granite because granite explodes when burned due to air pockets. 😂 😂😂

When you can call on Cokie Roberts, David McCollough and Nathaniel Philbrick to talk about your society, you must be something else! I can't wait to visit.

"I wish I could quit you " -Abraham Lincoln

Sorry, waiting for this video to be updated giving credit to Gustave Whitehead for First In Flight in 1901 in Bridgeport Connecticut.

thank you for uploading/sharing, just finished the book today and glad to get some more context of the book itself.

SHAME ON THIS VIDEO for not giving the proper credit to Gustave Whitehead who flew before the WRONG BROTHERS, and Whitehead flew in 1901 with over TEN EYEWITNESSES WHO SIGNED AFFIDAVITS THAT THEY SAW WHITEHEAD FLY IN BRIDGEPORT CONNECTICUT IN 1901. He may have even flown earlier in 1899.!!!

My favorite Henry James novel.

History is always about His stories,His lies.

Where is the credit to Gustave Whitehead who flew in 1901 in Bridgeport Connecticut to multiple eyewitnesses who signed affidavits? Another inconvenient truth? The replicas flew in Connecticut and in Europe near the museum to Whiteheads honor. There are photos of Whitehead in the air in his plane, Jane's Aviation credits Whitehead with his achievements, I even spoke to the Whitehead family who still live in Connecticut, and the Park Rangers at Kitty Hawk when I spoke to them privately told me they knew Whitehead flew before the Wright Brothers in a controlled, flight and Whitehead may have even flown as early as 1899.

Thanks for bringing this to light, professor.

Rescuing Africans from cannibalism who had no clothes nor Stone tools shouldn't have happened.

Robert Allison has done great with American revolution era history.

Wood is a misguided communist and socialist. He twists history around to meet his own ends. He's a pseudo intellectual and gets his information from the New York times

This isn't the movie. Don't waste your time

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