Bad Blood: The Border War that Triggered the Civil War

In the years leading up to the Civil War, a bloody conflict between slaveholders and abolitionists focused the nation's eyes on the state of Missouri and the territory of Kansas. Told through the actual words of slave owners, free-staters, and border ruffians, "Bad Blood" presents the complex morality, and life-and-death decisions faced by those who lived on the border from 1854 through 1860.
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[@patrickbush9526]

I grew up in little Dixie in Missouri. My great-grandmother told me during the Civil War all the men were gone to war they had a dinner bell they would ring when the Jayhawkers were spotted and all the women and children Would hide in a cave down in the hallow below the old home place.

[@allenhill1223]

I live across the river from riverside Missouri. We always call it little dixi

[@JohnnyRebKy]

My great grandfather rode with a band of Confederate guerrillas. He was from Salem, Dent County, Missouri. It caused family to have to be buried in different cemeteries. His brother was a union soldier in 48th Mo infantry. Both survived the war and lived until 1910. Apparently they never spoke again

[@williamwhitlow2491]

Suuuuurrrrreeeeee he was.

[@lobo1928]

similar story in my family of a man who survived but then was Abel to be father.

[@isldeur]

Thanx 4 sharin, surely he rotted in hell for the privilege to own another man....

[@georgetreepwood1119]

I had one in the Union army too.Died of disease in New Orleans.Now he never got beyond private.

[@mr.niceguy1812]

It's super cool you know your family's history like that. I'm a distant relative of Gen. James MacPherson from the union.

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

When the Universities of Kansas and Missouri football teams play each other it's called the Boarder War to this day.

[@bl18ce99]

BORDER

[@h.r.puffnstuff8705]

Think it’s time for a bloody bill mascot

[@bigdirtyred]

Until mu left for the sec. Now they don't play each other anymore

[@glenkroeker6038]

​@@bl18ce99who are you?

[@austint9079]

I'm here to say F KU

[@buzzcrushtrendkill]

Finally, the history of what preceded the Civil War. Fort Sumter wasn't the start of the Civil War, it is just the most famous battle. But the war had already started.

[@ALRIGHTYTHEN.]

Bands of civilians fighting over the future of one state within the union is not the same war as 11 states leaving the union, forming armies, and fighting to remain separate from the union, while the remaining states fight to keep the union together. They may be born of the same loins, but they are not the same war.

[@buzzcrushtrendkill]

@@ALRIGHTYTHEN. It was the same war for the same reasons.

[@ALRIGHTYTHEN.]

@@buzzcrushtrendkill Bleeding Kansas was fought to make Kansas a slave state. The Civil War was fought to preserve the union. Not the same war, nor the same reason. Some people say that John Browns attack on Harper's Ferry was the beginning of the Civil War, but that's not true either. That was a treasonous act against the government that puts him in the same boat as secessionists.

[@buzzcrushtrendkill]

@@ALRIGHTYTHEN. The underlying issues were all there in the lead up. Many people from northern states came to Kansas because it was pivotal to what was going on at the time, southern succesionism and slavery, as well as those from Missouri. I can see where you are coming from and you have good points. But I see these as all the same sentiments and raising the levels of hostilities that lead to the Civil War.

[@ALRIGHTYTHEN.]

@@buzzcrushtrendkill Underlying issues aren't causes, they're facilitators. While the war of 1861-1865 wouldn't have happened without slavery, slavery could have kept existing without the war, and could have even existed with a Lincoln presidency. There was one reason the Civil War happened. The southern states wanted to leave the union and Lincoln wanted to preserve it. Bleeding Kansas had nothing to do with that.

[@earlcollinsworth4914]

My family were also split by this war. Five of my third great uncles were in the Confederate fifth Kentucky Cavalry. Others, cousins of my great, great grandfather, served in the Union Army. The fifth mustered in with 2000 men in the beginning of the war. When the war ended, the unit had only 200 men mustered. 90% attrition rate!

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

Kentucky Confederate units were called orphan units as they had no state to support them.

[@earlcollinsworth4914]

@@jollyjohnthepirate3168 That I think also applied to many, if not all of the units that formed and served the side not recognized by their respective state legislatures.

[@ozarksbrotherjerry4297]

Deo Vindici

[@genkiferal7178]

The next Civil War will be over freedom for all men and women and will go far beyond race, religion, culture, or, to some degree, class/wealth.

[@nekkoskrilla6750]

The American Civil War, soldiers had a 1 in 4 chance of living, which was NOT a very high chance...

[@dertbom]

was skeptical going in to this, but I think they did an excellent job presenting it. Thanks for producing and sharing!

[@ahuddleston6512]

US History was so boring back in highschool but this has made it sooooo interesting. I'm addicted to it now!

[@chrisfrancis5444]

L

[@xdumpstrspunionx902]

Huge L.

[@ChristopherLaw-w3s]

This was the absolute best and balanced look at this historical time. I have watched the video now three times and gleen something new with each viewing

[@leezettel596]

I agree to an extent. While relating the history, they leave out some important points. The number of free Blacks in the states, north and south, the fact that some Blacks owned slaves, that Native Americans also were enslaved, the fact that slavery built the New England states, the fact that Native Americans also owned slaves etc. The Abolishioist narrative overshadowed the real opinions of most Americans , North and South. The Free Soilers argument that slavery expansion into the western territories was a threat to the success of the small farmers. They believed that the small farmers could not compete with the slave owning farmers History is complicated, and so was this era.

[@someguy936]

Thank y'all for telling the truth on this very important piece of American history.

[@PersistentPatriot]

Production quality of this is excellent, great job.

[@robertgibler4656]

My Great great Grandfather and his son my great grandfather lived in Unionville Missouri, and fought on both sides of the war. One with the Union in Leavenworth fort and the younger with the confederacy after moving from Missouri to Tennessee.

[@hhhhhh-xg9rk]

im from unionville mo

[@paulhenson4434]

​@@hhhhhh-xg9rkI use to hunt up there.

[@godlyfeminist1453]

Thank you Wide Awake Films! A+ from this philomath! ❤📚

[@JustMe-mh2pn]

Brilliant, absolutly brilliant documentary // the song at the end had me sitting on the sofa in tears. It is simply unbelievable how much suffering these people experienced during that time.

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

And just a few short generations ago!

[@virgiljjacas1229]

Hard to find an unbiased historical documentary. Thank you.

[@stevewheatley243]

You're supposed to feel guilt for the deeds of others.😏🤣

[@hopper1189]

especially about the civil war because its controversial even today, especially in the south

[@sionnachmacbradaigh1010]

@@hopper1189 because many southerners are working very hard to reinstate the Confederacy.

[@genkiferal7178]

@@sionnachmacbradaigh1010 yes, we are and this time we will fight side by side with men and women of all races, creeds, and both sexes to retain our freedom.

[@DerSchleier]

@@sionnachmacbradaigh1010 "Many"? How do you know such?

[@TonyM1961]

This was an incredibly well presented documentary. I like how they did their best to simply and honestly portray the points of view of all involved without any blatant judgement. That's incredibly difficult to do, especially when discussing such a divisive topic as slavery

[@mtman2]

Well I sure hope its not devisive anymore...! Sèè my above take on this being "Top-Down" unGodly greed and control of the Southern slave based economic society...!

[@stoveboltlvr3798]

22:11 the Contrails are a nice touch. Must've emigrated so fast that they went in the future.

[@rechaudsmith3146]

J😊uu Not really hu

[@2ezee2011]

Subject you and your family to slavery and see if you feel it is divisive? I think you would come to see it as evil incarnate and horror. Have your children sold, your achilles tendons cut if you were a flight risk from your horror. To listen to owners of humans pretend to be human is a freakn nightmare.

[@TonyM1961]

@@2ezee2011 Look jackass, as a Native, thousands our ancestors were enslaved by the colonizers. It's just not as publicized. How do you think the majority of those catholic missions were built? Divine intervention? Coming down on me about my word choice is ridiculous when you don't know shit about me.

[@hodathunkit8572]

Awesome quality doco thank you

[@billycagle2564]

I am 63 years old from Alabama. The county I come from Winston County was pro union and anti slavery. It seceded from the Confederacy and became the Free State of Winston. My great grandfather fought for the Union.

[@PreacherLevi]

The institution of slavery was not the cause of the war. The tariff, a tax on imported goods, was the sole cause of the war. Northern manufacturers, who had gained political control in northern states, wanted the government to lay heavy taxes on foreign commerce to "protect" their domestic business. The South, however, was dependent on foreign commerce for its prosperity and wanted low tariffs. Political and business leaders on both sides realized that further argument was useless, that the tariff rate depended on the balance of power in Congress between the northern and southern states.

[@Evlogite19]

Wow. Round of applause for Billy boy over here! “mY cOuNtY fOuGhT fEr dUh uNioN!!” Wooly bully for you. Pin a rose on your nose. I guess now that you’ve boasted that from the hilltops, maybe they’ll go easy on you, huh? You know, you’ll be “one of the good ones” to the average drug-addled city-dwelling leftist turd and his Third World pets. And now that I think of it…did you just say that your county “seceded” from the Confederacy? But wait…I thought all you liberals hated secession? Isn’t that what you’ve all been whining about these last sixty plus years, how “secession” flags have no place in our “beautiful melting pot” society? So, tell me, which is it? I guess secession is okay when it’s your side of the fence doing it, huh? How very progressive.

[@Evlogite19]

@@PreacherLevi Don’t bother trying to talk sense to all the virtue-signalling leftists. They don’t care. They hate us either way.

[@paulj4155]

Not true

[@rexracernj7696]

@@PreacherLevi I'm a history prof, bro; this is nonsense. If you take even a MOMENT to read the state secession resolutions of 1860-61, you'll see that preserving (& expanding) slavery is front & center among the stated reasons. Probe a little deeper: in the SC debate over secession, delegates discussed using tariffs as a secession issue & rejected it.

[@kevinengle2306]

Excellent production! I was unaware of much of the Kansas debacle and John Brown's role in that whole horrible blood lust. Amazing how one man (John Brown) could influence national policy so much. Kansas was one thing but his assault on Harpers Ferry, in essence, caused the southern states to succeed. Again, bravo to the creators of this production!

[@winslowredcross2835]

This was a great documentary on the Kansas Missouri Border War. Very well done. Thank you!

[@tnt-hv6qw]

many many parallels with today seems to me. you guys have the best docs. thank you. those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.

[@damnedyankee946]

Many don't

[@SN-xk2rl]

This is not history - just white-right propaganda. Nazi

[@DeadIron87]

@@SN-xk2rl Typical left-wing fascist. You're on the wrong side of history.

[@thelastpinster]

Bloody oath..

[@joekabotz734]

Could you please explain your words " many many parallels ". Many " parallels " in your mind means what ?

[@michaeljoseph3528]

Thanks for this profound lesson in American history. Very well done.

[@chuck9017]

Captivating, amazingly well acted. I was unaware of this history. I will be watching it again. I highly recommend it!

[@johnwightman7549]

absolutely fascinating. i'd heard the expression "bleeding kansas" but i never realised the scale of the conflict, or that at one time there was a serious chance of kansas being a slave state.

[@mr.niceguy1812]

I thought it was the city of Bleeding, but I'm not from there & could've misheard it.

[@epic6434]

I think the people who migrated to Kansas were believed to be from Boston they were attacking people in Missouri they were called red legs like the red sox I figure not sure what the truth is but in the movie Ride with the Devil one man says that Kansas people in Lawrence built schools and all thought the same, which made me think indoctrination was a strange thing to people then.

[@LaGrandeBayou]

In Southern Kansas near Oklahoma and not far from Joplin Missouri' is Labette Co. They renamed the County sone years after the War from Van Dorn County. Which is named for Confederate General Earl Van Dorn.

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

It was devastating

[@kirkdouglass7593]

There is a book about this called bleeding Kansas, talked about the under ground railroad, bought on by the Topeka Boys which it formed, talked about Kansas Red legs, John Brown

[@BL-no7jp]

This is the most interesting coverage on this subject matter. Most students in my high school class slept through history lessons.

[@dirtyd2749]

It's showing nationwide students have slept through history class.

[@robertgriffin9840]

my descendants left the mountains of eastern Tennessee in 1849, crossed into Arkansas, and settled in Polk County, Missouri in 1850. They fought in the Civil War as Union Missouri State Cavalry. Looks like I need to search for their experiences in the 1850s.

[@dr.calebrobbins.3177]

I'm sure you refer to your Ancestors.

[@larryloveless2967]

In the election of 1860 Missouri voted for a candidate to continue slavery yet not secede from the Union. St. Louis although having some southern sympathizing was like a Union city in a confederate state split more by urban versus rural than by north versus south due to its large German immigration and some Irish in the city. I reommend to any civil war buff visiting St. Louis to see the Grant national park museum. Prior to the civil war Grant who came from an abolitionist Ohio family met the sister of his army buddy and married in to a slave owning Missouri family near St. Louis. Grant was assigend years prior to the civil war at Jefferson Barracks that became a large Union army base in the western theater of the war. Across the road from the museum you can also enjoy a few hours at Grants farm for a fun family outing with a tram ride seeing animals such as buffalo on the grounds. This national park museum really shows what it must have been like for Grant being in a slave owning family where one brother differed in view with another brother and father. Missouri provided soldiers to both sides of the war. This was really a good video showing so much more than I previously realized about Missouri that only had cotton in the southeastern part of the state yet slaves were used on Missouri farms for other products.

[@mechcavandy986]

Grant’s wife, Julia, and he owned slaves at their Whitehaven Plantation. She inherited them from her family. They didn’t free the slaves until Missouri amended the 13th Amendment, after the war.

[@larryloveless2967]

@@mechcavandy986 Thanks for the info. I remembered Grant was once given a slave as a gift in the 1850s from his father-in-law who he freed and I just looked it up on the internet. His name was William Jones and he was freed in 1859. I remembered this from the Grant national park museum I visited. Being married myself for almost 50 years, I am sure she had influence on the inherited slaves you mention. It's quite a story how he came from an abolitionist Ohio family and how through his army buddy meeting his family in the St. Louis area met his sister and married in to a slave owning family.

[@Mr.Guild1971]

Our State hwy Historical marker in Grant City(named after "the great gen")Missouri, IS not Historically True. Imagine that,The more Ya Know..... Learn the True history of Missori's Government leading up to the war and you'll find nearly a play book for how and Why the war happened. If you can find the TRUTH.I've Lived here over 50 yrs and I'm still learning.Very little of which is recorded correctly in books.

[@larryloveless2967]

@@Mr.Guild1971 I like viewing some of the stories on PBS and KZbin and books from the library that give so much more than what happened in the condensed history books we had in school. Missouri pretty much had it all from both sides.

[@Alleykatsks]

Thanks for this. I live near STL now and I wanna see some if this stuff. Been through Jefferson Barracks quite a bit.

[@icarusairways6139]

Nice work here, thank you!

[@gregscavuzzo5457]

I am from Harrisonville Missouri and Cole Younger and his family lived here , his Dad was the first mayor of Harrisonville and was killed by a Union soldier near Westport, the family relocated to Lees Summit and most of the family members are buried there, Harrisonville has a great history of the Border Wars check it out

[@alexanderbreglia7282]

Quantrill, Frank James and a gang of western men carrying several pistols each rode in to a Kansas town and shot all the men and robbed the houses but did not touch the woman. The next year's raid saw bloody bill Anderson leading the raid along with Jessy James. Quantrill thought Jessy James was too young for the first raid, however bloody bill Anderson thought different. Jessy James proved to be a good marksmen on his first raid, dispatching a few men during the beginning of the second " guerrilla" raid on the same Kansas town. Lawrence was the name of the Kansas town that was attacked twice.

[@onlythewise1]

you was there and saw it

[@carywest9256]

The sacking of Lawrence happened twice,yes once before the firing at Ft. Sumter and then in August of '63. The James boy you refer to spelt his name Jesse Woodson James. But he didn't have a part in either sacking, although he rode with "Bloody"Bill Anderson for about a year or more until Anderson bought the farm after the Centralia Massacre in September 27,1864. James tried to surrender at the end of fighting, and was shot for his trouble.

[@lauratroxel24]

Jesse

[@h.r.puffnstuff8705]

You left out the part about the Missouri Rangers women folk that had all been kidnapped and held prisoner by the US Army. The Army guards sabotaged the multi storied structure the women were held in. It collapsed killing./maiming most of the women. Lawerance was base of terrorist operations aimed at Missouri. Why it was the target of the Missouri Rangers rage. Kidnap and kill somebodies mom, wife, or sister? WTF do you think the dudes going to do let it go?

[@wednesdayschild3627]

They hid in Colorado.

[@djinbleu]

Eye opening documentary, no war comes from a vacuum. What is interesting is that some of the so-called abolitionists didn't just want to get rid of slavery, but they didn't want black people in the state at all! Both parties were as bad as eachother imho.

[@died4us590]

My great great grandpa was a confederate soldier named james keelan, and he defended a bridge in strawberry plaines tennessee. He should never have lived, being left to defend it on his own. If you google his name, his story comes up, and he was posthumously given the confederate medal of honor in 1994, and it's on display in an east tennessee museum. He said they weren't fighting over slavery, but to be kept seperate from the north. My other great great grandpa was a union soldier, who died after getting out of a pow camp, boarding the sultana that was way over crowded, and the boiler blew up drowning nearly everyone. The south is always called racist, but that was not the truth. The number of large plantation owner's was very small compared to the rest of the population. The winner writes the outcome. During the reconstruction, many slaves were given land to work, but you don't hear that, or how estates were split up to do this. Reconstruction took place all over the country back then. I was lucky to have great grandparents and grandparents who handed down the history. G-d bless everyone, and love your neighbor, because tight community's have disappeared, and we need them now more than ever.

[@carywest9256]

What County was Strawberry Plains in during The War Between the States?

[@davidruffin3728]

SO YOU WERE GOOD SLAVE OWNERS. LIES. MY ANCESTORS WERE SLAVES AND THEY SAY BOYS WERE RAPED. FAMILIES SEPARATED. BEATINGS. TORTURE. GOD MADE HELL FOR THEM.

[@genkiferal7178]

You said: He said they weren't fighting over slavery, but to be kept separate from the north. I say: This is what is being said enough and what angered most poor white southerners who never owned slaves. Slavery was a bit like cheap illegal immigrant labor - it lowers the wages of the locals. So, people are brainwashed to think the entire south was pro-slavery. they were far more ANTI-northerners and their monopolies.

[@dagak1180]

Guys, you heard it here. You can't be racist if you don't own slaves

[@genkiferal7178]

@@dagak1180 you can't be racist if you aren't white, too - same logic. and, of course, blacks would never be racist and are all good christians who turn the other cheek and forgive everybody and don't lie, steal, or commit adultery

[@carlfriend4100]

I've been reading the comments, and I have a recommendation for you all, which none of you will take. Before commenting on history try researching it. That doesn't mean watch a movie or read one book of one person's opinion. It means research the entirety of slavery throughout history and is still happening to this day, and I'm not speaking metaphorically.

[@jeanf8998]

Not all historians are correct. Don’t jump to conclusions.😊

[@thomasmcclure6722]

@@jeanf8998true, just like this production very misleadingly states that the abolitionists came to “dig the Underground Railroad.” How absurd. What historically sensitive filmmaker would let that slip by? It was neither a railroad nor, other than short tunnels to escape out of the back of the basements of some homes, “underground.” It was secretive , not literally underground.

[@patrickpilkington6241]

This was an outstanding documentary. In particular, the soundtrack really served to emphasize the drama within. A truly excellent cultural and historical reflection. I found it objective and fair to its own place in its own time and the sides engaged in barbaric brutality. War is a horrendous scourge on humanity.

[@RogerDuly]

This portrayal is self contradictory. It first purports the Civil War wasn’t over slavery, but the portrayal is predominantly based on the conflict over the perpetuation of slavery.

[@sanaishere18]

For real lol. I think a lot of people /want/ this war to not be over slavery because a lot of people, especially in the south, had family fight for the confederacy.

[@65TPT4E]

The WAR was over states rights

[@Ureconstructed]

@@sanaishere18the issue was over the right of the states to vote on slavery, and prevent it from being decided by the fed. It’s like abortion today. Some people believed it was a right, some believed it shouldn’t be. The north didn’t fight the war to end slavery, the fought it to prevent the south from leaving.

[@dianebrayden4123]

Very tragic time in history. Thank you for the video.

[@henrybadiukiewicz8812]

About to repete itself!

[@raymondjones7130]

These are tragic times as well! Soon comes the time we Patriots eradicate the leftist and socialist parasites from our country!

[@henrybadiukiewicz8812]

@@raymondjones7130 thats a rather broad statement. Whit that statement . Your talking about our parents and grandparents as well as the disabled people. Someone thats worked for 40 yrs and put in his taxes deserves the SS for life. I do agree to an extent about the lefts crazy ideas of socialism. I feel even if they cant find work and receive food stamps they should have to go on the streets with a broom for at least 4 hrs a month and sweep. At least it shows a willingness to do some form of work. It just might get them a real job Someone needing a worker may see him out there all the time and snatch him up for a jod.....

[@raymondjones7130]

@@henrybadiukiewicz8812 I have no problem with seniors and the disabled getting monthly checks, hell I think they should get more than what they're currently receiving. My problem comes with able bodied people playing the system. Women having multiple children by multiple men getting section 8, foodstamps, tax returns and the like, when they should be working. As you said, if they can't find work, they can perform community service of some sorts. That may lead to a break in the cycle that welfare leads to. I'm not saying I want children struggling to eat, I just want them to see their parents trying to better themselves! As far as these socialists and liberals masquerading as Democrats, I say they should face firing squads!

[@henrybadiukiewicz8812]

@@raymondjones7130 agreed!

[@mikedesil23]

Stunning documentary

[@robertcole9391]

With all these documentaries, why doesn't anyone bring up Thomas Paine's writings over slavery? That was 1774 when he first came to the the colonies via Franklin and Jeffereson and was coeditor of the Pensylvania Journal. Yet noone addresses it.. I bring it up our of couriosity.

[@michaellovetere8033]

Wrong video..

[@robertcole9391]

@@michaellovetere8033 My opinion not yours. My words do reflect much concerning the confederacy and have historical connections If you don't like it.. Pound sand. Don't remember requesting your approval or opinion. Like or dislike, I don't care either way. Have a nice day.

[@hopper1189]

What did he say about slavery?

[@robertcole9391]

@@hopper1189 Spoke of how wrong it is and it's one of the most evil things a person can do to another person. You can find it on the internet.

[@hopper1189]

@@robertcole9391 I was not even aware Thomas Paine addressed the issue of slavery, thank you for brining this to my attention I will definitely look at it myself

[@ScoopDogg]

This was fantastic

[@domdalbello1607]

Thanks, Shane!

[@chuckHart70]

They call it Bleeding Kansas, but most of the bleeding was done in Missouri or in Kansas from those who were from Missouri.

[@tenbroeck1958]

My mother's people were Livingston Co Missouri folks. Good people. They originated in Albany New York and made their way out west, where their surnames were Anglicized. Eckerson became Akerson and Ten Broeck became Timbrook. I am certainly an American Midwesterner at heart. I believe in Mom, Dad and apple pie, and don't care if that's corny and out of date.

[@christophercaetano6305]

AMEN my BROTHER!

[@josephagnello9335]

Good Country, Missouri. I spent tome in Stover& Sedalia. I would have fought for the Condederacy!!!!!!!@

[@mustbtrouble]

We’ll take your word for it

[@brucegoodall3794]

​@Christopher Caetano I'd rather have A Woman;;You don't even know why you say AMEN

[@brucegoodall3794]

​@Christopher Caetano I'd rather have A Woman;;You don't even know why you say AMEN

[@MarkTitus420]

What got into people's mind they not only entitled to enslave a race of people, but it was also their God-given duty to do so. I will never understand that.

[@vonnero1250]

(Gen 9:25-27, MT) He said, “Cursed be Canaan; lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers”. He also said, “Blessed by the Lord my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave. May God make space for Japheth, and let him live in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave”. It's right there, in the Book that is Good, because a Good Book knows it's Good. (Apologies to Tim Minchin) :P

[@edreeder5230]

I had Family with General Joe Shelby and Governor Reeder was related. Oscar Reeder surrendered in New Orleans and was paroled in Shreveport, LA. The family home was in MIngo County, MO.

[@DonaldPillow]

GREAT DOCUMENTARY!

[@phann860]

Very good indeed, I had no idea that there was a boiling cauldron leading up to the Civil War.

[@h.r.puffnstuff8705]

Well of course not. Wouldn’t do any good most people can’t figure out the bs they shovel out in public schools. Your taught the north freed the slaves out of the goodness of their heart and then moved on to free the plains from the reign of Indian terror. If the whole story is slavery and their heart was good? What happened to that heart of gold when it went genocide on the plains tribes?

[@america_is_a_myth]

The actors are a nice touch. 👍🏿 I enjoy this video. Watched it over four times.

[@georgejcking]

Very well made, thank you.

[@jamesgriffith4]

Well done film covering a sad, but because of the political weakness of the time, inevitable result in the precursor to our national tradegy.

[@raymondpetersen6155]

I'm a white boy, 65 years old. I have a heart as well as a conscience! It's embarrassing to me, when I read and see historical things like this!! I just don't understand how people could be so cruel. I don't think I have any Black blood in me, but I'm a little more than an 8th American Indian. Racism is disgusting, the Blacks, and Indians paid so much, to make this country what it is today!! Whatever race or nationality we are in The United States today, those who are racist, should simply reconsider their thoughts and just try to be more considerate of others! We're all Americans, let's just try a little more, to treat each other as such!! 🙂

[@davidu8688]

Looking at BLM?? OH yeah it's happening again today just look around you. Control will soon be in and ALL enslaved.

[@dexculpepper-py1jr]

There is black racist too. All of it is wrong

[@alanaadams7440]

Good point

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

I’m 12.5% negative Cherokee and the rest is pure Scottish and about 20% French. The further south you go it was worse. The worst of it all is that it involves both races, and it was a class thing. even Black people who were biracial treated each other terribly, depending on who had the most or least white in them. It was disgusting. This went on before, and after slavery, and most of them are referred to as house N word by 100% Black people, or mostly darker skinned Black people. My dad’s family was out in the country in Virginia and so were my mothers so they didn’t even move to the county until my parents were in grade school. Country life with so much different than here in Virginia even in the 1950s or 60s there was a loving versus Virginia case because the white man married a black woman.. they had known each other their entire lives, and worked together on farms, and his parents had a farm, and her parents worked there, but they fell in love and got married, and then all hell broke loose with the state or commonwealth of Virginia. It wasn’t initially, but by the time word spread to Richmond they were in an uproar, and the poor people did take their case of Virginia court of appeals, but they ended up having to move to West Virginia and live, because it was a backward here then

[@godlyfeminist1453]

Damn well said Raymond P.

[@minouche5702]

Just discovered ur channel ❤❤❤❤❤ it

[@myeyeswentdeaf6213]

It’s scary how many similarities there is today

[@stevenbice2093]

Wat are you talking about

[@shinybald36]

Midwest states definitely changed the agricultural balance when you had 16 feet of black top soil you didn't need slaves to make a successful farming venture

[@bryanfox2735]

Every state in this country to the second right now lives a different life style! It’s 2023 btw!

[@actualkarenokboomer3158]

I don't care how kindly you say they treated their slaves, if you can sell someone's family member it you are short of cash, that is never kind.

[@genkiferal7178]

In the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical term used by Southerners to describe opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War, who were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, and/or social gain. BTW, for many decades after, women were basically slaves to their husbands. Not saying that two worn gs make a right, but that women are 50% of the population and everyone has at least one female relative (a mother). History still overlooks this because there wasn't money to be made out of this issue.

[@concealsecond139]

No one , I don’t care who it is , a blue blood from the 13 bloodlines descended from the upper cash Anunnaki who eventually became the royal houses of European Aristocracy and who branched into the power families of Europe & became the BANKSTERS and ruling class and who oppressed indigenous peoples all over the earth for hundreds and hundreds of years. Who view anyone not of their families and bloodlines as chattel ( ie cattle ) to be bought and sold at will by them & trafficked and traded in to these present times . People like Epstein and all the rich and wealthy he provided with whatever they wanted ( anything whatsoever) . Slavery is alive and well today and 2020 for the first time ever human trafficking surpassed drug trafficking as the number one “ money” maker in illicit activities worldwide. Truly a tragedy.

[@concealsecond139]

Further i think in time ( and not much longer ) the southern states would band slavery as a practice. Very few people had slaves & most could not afford them . A prime male of breeding age was going for $1,000 on the block & females for $500 . The import of slaves had been band as of January 1st of 1808 & the subsequent breeding of slaves had become big business as a result. In 1791 a revolt began on the island of Hispaniola and lasted till 1804 when Haiti 🇭🇹 in the West & the Dominican Republic in the East gained their independence from France who had control of the west side of the island and Spain and England who had control of the east part of the island. There had been revolts going on for over 100 years before Haiti and the Dominican Republic finally gained their freedom from colonial rule .

[@concealsecond139]

Many of the people who came to the eastern seaboard of North America came to the colonies as indentured servants ( a “ polite “ term for a slave ) from primarily England to get out of debtors prison. They served the royal families ( the so called & titled Lords ) who had extensive operations in the “ New World “ as indentured servants for periods of 7 to 14 and in some cases as long as 21 years to work off their debt to those families & if they survived their indenture tude ( many of which did not ) then they were granted their freedom & allowed to homestead in the western part of the colonies along the frontier.

[@yorktown1953]

Well done documentary, as I learned in the 50’s as a child.

[@proudamerican7662]

Anyone else listen to documentaries to fall asleep😂Sometimes, it takes a week or two. 😂😂😮

[@dreemeagle]

seems like Vietnam really ran 1954-1974, the Civil War ran 1854 to 1865

[@jimmydire8607]

This is an excellent film on the subject that had always remained very hazy with me.

[@Ridendrty]

I never thought about it before but most people i know from MO do not like KS to this day. You can actually feel the difference when you leave the state of KS and return to the sweet springs and rolling hills of MO. Hard to explain i guess.

[@robertsettle2590]

This is the absolute truth. Leaving kansas behind and entering Missouri or GODS COUNTRY.

[@keith3751]

I have always heard that University of Missouri basketball coach Norm Stewart would never spend a dime in Kansas. The team would stay in the KC area and then get bused to Lawrence, KS then straight back to Missouri. They wouldn’t stop for fuel or meals. Not sure if true but it’s a good story.

[@oceanhome2023]

In Colorado they still make jokes about Texans losing the Battle of the Glorieta Pass in NM

[@OldHeathen1963]

Vice versa, for a guy from Maine, traveling through MO and OK to CA to visit family. Honestly worse on way back... Went though eastern OK to SC for sight seeing... You'd think I was from Mars...😲✊🇺🇸

[@richardprice5978]

@@robertsettle2590 no its the opposite way for me i get jumpy in the great state of misery 🤠lol. i don't really know why but i don't care for that state of mo

[@andersonlong7709]

TOO MANY COMMERCIALS!!! Wide Awake Films are exceptional and consistently the best and under recognized producers of accurate, extraordinary historic documentaries. And of course they need income and no doubt deserve more than they receive. But a commercial every two minutes??? It’s a pity as it makes a brilliant film all but unwatchable.

[@jlemaire9418]

"We came down here to vote, by God, and we aint leaving till we DOOORRRHHHH!" 26:19

[@stevewheatley243]

I wonder if the abolitionists of yesterday would now have regrets.

[@racerx1189]

5:41 This is insane. The announcement of human beings for sale. I'll never understand how some folks just don't get why we must teach this history to our children. I studied and read about the Civil War and it didn't cause me any harm. #TeachThemWell

[@michaelweber5702]

racerx -- The issue has been treated dishonestly , it is not that anyone doesn't want slavery to be taught , everyone wants that , it is that people don't want children taught that all white people are inherently racist and even born racist . Unfortunately , many educators want that taught in school to students ...

[@oddsketch9969]

​@@michaelweber5702Are you intentionally setting up a straw man, or do you actually not know the history well enough to understand it?

[@jaroddraycounty]

Wrong, they are wanting history taught, and the other side is claiming that teaching our history is teaching "white people are inherently racist." There's literally been no plan or incident of "white people are bad" being taught. But Fox News believes that anything that isn't American exceptionalism is bad.@@michaelweber5702

[@gawaineross6119]

John Brown's victims in the Pottawatomie massacre were not chosen at random. They were men who had openly called in the local press for the execution of John and his sons. This doesn't excuse the violence, but it does make it more personal.

[@SN-xk2rl]

They also either were, or were friends with the Ruffians who had attacked the property of Brown's Son's whose land was nearby and who endured regular harrassment and destruction of property as they were known abolitionists and the Pottawatomie Creek community was Pro-Slavery. Portraying Brown as crazy is just propaganda.

[@melissaallen6914]

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

[@robertsettle2590]

@@SN-xk2rl nope brown was definitely a psychopath, a bloodthirsty killer.

[@OldHeathen1963]

@@melissaallen6914 ah, another trope. " winners write history" As well. No, Brown was hung for TREASON, the killers in Kansas.... Like Trump!

[@richardprice5978]

was a sam or a samuel maxwell price( peg leg sam as a nick name later on in life )/his relatives friends with jonn/him or his family ect.?? if so i don't know how 🤔 i feel about it

[@timothybybee1192]

Thank you for the education....brilliant

[@OldHeathen1963]

😲😲😲 🤡

[@jamesbehrje4279]

The guy handing out the weapons in the wagon to the people reminded me of Big daddy handing out the hoods in Djanjo Unchained!!! Lol

[@keithkucera3163]

Greed does much damage

[@Spicy-y9z]

Only rich people owned slaves, because they costed as much as a new car today! That's also why I don't believe that man shot down the slave!

[@Mr.Guild1971]

Very Nice but still as every other, there's so much left unsaid.It's true the victors write the history

[@fredrickmarsiello4395]

One of the problems with reviewing the Civil War, is the inherent temptations of fighting it again, and the unfortunate predilection of laying the ground for another one. We can do absolutely nothing about yesterday; except, as an obligation to learn everything we can from it so as not to repeat the same mistakes. Erasing history just guarantees that we will eventually do so.

[@KennethGuilliams-ec6kx]

Man .... I know how ya feel ... 66 here and I know a have been round the block and over the mountains played a little army .... Then looked back at our own past and kinda gave me a belly ache. . . I love my country but damn we sure have been some mean nasty people and to each other to. .... Man I am sorry. ... May not have been me doing it to you and you didn't do it to me but I am sorry

[@johnbriggs8019]

Interesting that people from Missouri are to blame for Topeka having such a hostile attitude toward common decency.

[@jethrolincoln7309]

You skipped a whole section about latter-day saints being run out of Kansas/Missouri because they were against slavery and would have cast votes against it......

[@michaellovetere8033]

The Mormons were first run out of Illinois.

[@davegreene1198]

Plus they were a polygamist cult.

[@rythania7686]

The LDS was ran off two decades prior to bleedjng Kansas. Joseph Smith was trying to assassinate the Governor Boggs.

[@kongsied4279]

It's weird how screwed and similar enemies are, I see people saying this is an biased documentary. It's natural as humans are all biased, what cannot be disputed is truth, especially when it comes from sources that have nothing to gain, my family are from Zimbabwe, there's a tribe there called the Lemba who are black jews, now these folks preserved the Torah just from memory, this is objective factual non disputable. the elders when they left Isreal and went to Africa. Now what they also passed down was knowledge of the accounts of what went down when they arrived to Africa. These black skinned people were attacked and were enslaved by indegidous AFRICANS, and these Africans eventually did business with some olive skinned people aka Europeans, which would go and become the Atlantic slave trade, Africans willingly participated in this business and propersed. I've always known that man's inhumanity towards man, along with money and evil intentions was what went down back in those day's. Thank God that I have actual human relatives who told the truth, I am not sure if this documentary is 100% accurate or not, but blacks need to stop it with hypocrisy and entitlement syndrome, yes some of our ancestors went through some tough shit, fast forward to present time and I m on the front line in Baltimore and the enemy looks exactly like me.

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

You are correct to a certain extent, but it does not excuse those who bought human beings and those who used human beings shamefully. This is the very reason why History classes should tell the complete story in our Public Schools.

[@stevekon11]

"Right the wrongs of the past"? Neither I nor any member of my family did a dam thing wrong even if some of my ancestors fought for the south,of which, like all southerners, I am immensely proud of . People of that time period were survivors in ways that most today are clueless of.There is no wrong to be righted ,anybody who says otherwise is just a beggar looking for a handout.

[@RobertStCyr-pe7ic]

The Democratic Party hasn't changed much.

[@lucasroche8639]

The amount of adverts is ruining any flow the documentary has, to say there is too many to avoid the accusations of being cynically over the top is the politest way I could think of putting the issue in writing.

[@teresag2015]

Hard to say, but it might be possible to see if this is viewable renting from the public library nearest you. 😊

[@jdrancho1864]

08:50 the aspect hardly ever mentioned is that with every new territory granted statehood, it would add two more senators to the senate, and a certain number of reps to the house. Since there were a much smaller number of senators at the time then there are today, the addition of two or four or six senators had a much bigger impact back then. So it was crucial for either side to bring a new territory to their side so their voting power, either in favor of or against slavery, would not be diluted. This process is not dissimilar to FDR's attempt to increase the number of Supreme Court justices that he would be able to appoint to favor his New Deal agenda. A similar consideration is still in play today when discussing statehood for DC or Puerto Rico. This time it's not about slavery, but which political party would get the additional seats.

[@genkiferal7178]

statehood for DC? that would make DC far less objective and I thought it was against the law. DC Needs to be neutral as possible to keep any semblance of fairness.

[@dagak1180]

They cared about the seats because of slavery, dude. It was slave states vs non-slave states

[@jdrancho1864]

@@dagak1180 And?? It's literally what this video is all about.

[@genkiferal7178]

@@dagak1180 you memorized your history books so well. too bad the rest of history isn't allowed to be taught to school kids. He who owns the gold makes the rules.

[@dagak1180]

@@genkiferal7178 The only thing that isn't allowed to be taught to school kids is CRT, genius. We live in the age of information, you can study anything you want.

[@ericjones8871]

Reconsider your settings and let us put this video in a slideshow for educational purposes.

[@davidu8688]

If the North cared about the slaves they sure had a funny way of showing it by looking at how they treated blacks before, during, and after the war and it wasn't by "fighting a war" for them by any means. President Lincoln said it himself "he cared not if ONE MAN WAS FREED" AND "that his only loyalty was to the UNION". It was about uniting the states under the union and or power of the ultra rich overlords who would not have it any other way for by control that they would have it. No mention of the FIFTY % Terrif on all imported goods which only hurt the south and those who succeeded from the North. This was about the constitution which stated each state governed itself and had the right to succeed and thise who did were under INVASION by the NORTH where horrific things were done not only to men but also women and children. Freeing the slaves was only a side note in order to gain sympathy for the crimes of the North as well rewrite history. This is the ONLY good that came from the Civil War was the freeing of the slaves. This video is ful of exactly what you would think it would be, lies and a bunch stereotypes. Literally only 5% even owned slaves so then why would so many fight a war in order to keep those slaves they didn't own or want if they even cared at all about them? Doesn't make sense because yes the history was rewritten just as even the present is being today right before our eyes along with history slandered, pulled down, and burned one by one.

[@mmhthree]

I always thought it was unrealistic that they somehow convinced the Northerner's to potentially die themselves, and come down to free the black slaves. Why would they risk their lives for people they thought that they were better than, and potentially hated?? Massive racism still exists in the north today, as most of the race issues, and riots are in northern cities. I always think that every conflict in the history of man is about wealth, resources, and power... any other reason is just a bunch of BS in my opinion. I just don't believe the narrative.. I think the South was becoming too powerful, wealthy, with mass immigration of people leaving the harsh winters of the North.. and this was the time to strike and destroy the economy of the South. The economy of the South was destroyed for decades, and I think that was their motivation... not to free the slaves. So, I agree with you.. it has been rewritten in opinion as well.

[@Gordo6192]

💯

[@Gordo6192]

First time I ever heard actual facts that only a real civil war descendant would know!

[@ericrodriguezz215]

Wow, this is an amazing and factual comment.

[@gyrospinup]

I very much agree. If people were to read the transcripts from the Lincoln/Douglas debate, they would see how the real Lincoln was. Lincoln agreed to allow both Missouri and Kentucky to be neutral. Shortly after his agreeing to Missouris neutrality, federal troops were killing St. Louis civilians. I got into it with a supervisor at Wilson's Creek Battlefield next to Springfield, Mo. over how they are changing history. He claimed that Mo. was never a confederate state. I informed him of the real history. Lincoln sent troops to take over the Mo. state capital after invading St Louis. The governor and top elected officials escaped. The governor ended up in SW MO at Neosho where he requested to join the confederacy due to Lincoln lying about allowing Mo. to be neutral and CSA president Davis welcomed Missouri. Mo was the 12th star on the confederate flag and Kentucky was the 13th. The supervisor at the Battlefield got really irked when I mentioned that a new Mo. government appointed by Lincoln was a false government since they were not elected by the people (quite a few people were there listening). I'm surprised that they haven't changed the victory of that battle at wilsons creek from the confederates to the union. Other than a very few with rich soil next to the Missouri River, most Missourians never owned slaves nor knew anybody who did. It takes 2 or more governments fighting over the takeover of the country for a civil war. The confederates didn't want to rule the country, but only to succeed as the constitution allowed and be on their own due to tyranny. The war was actually The War of Northern Aggression. Slavery was already decreasing due to new farming machinery at that time. Lincoln didn't have a slave but his wife Mary brought her own personal family slave with her when occupying the white house. Hell, the natives made slaves out of other tribe members prior to the Europeans ever setting foot in America. Blacks brought other blacks as slaves to put on the slave ships. Blacks owned blacks in the U.S. Then of course there was all the Caucasian slaves.

[@mtman2]

CONNIE DOVER could be Enya's twin sister = beautifully solemn haunting Irish songstress & wonderful instrumentals... Thank You

[@AlejandroGonzalez-gn7cv]

...lástima que no esté traducida al español,no sé inglés,me gustan esté tipo de películas, saludos...

[@anthonypierce1880]

Thank you.

[@uppitycoon]

I think you need to re-load this video. It is very good, but it keeps freezing up, and the sound is not in syncs in some places

[@deserthighlander1969]

I'm excited about anything "western". If Costner is involved, that's an automatic watch, in my opinion. It's exciting to hear that Blood Meridian is getting attention. Despite the novels violence, an adaptation would be amazing.

[@nonyabiz3874]

War never would of happened without the issue of slavery and free states so if you look at the foundation of the conflict it's slavery period

[@oldViking66]

My G. G. Grandfather Alabama CSA 1840-1921 G. Grandfather Alabama WW1 1883-1940 Grandfather Alabama WW2 1907-1970 Father Alabama Vietnam 1947-2020 All proud Southern Vets.

[@kenhart8771]

It wasn’t about slavery to begin with. However sovereign states rights

[@mtman2]

One of the best total insigutful overviews of that time period I've ever seen given a set time limit; accurately and honestly "described" the situations without a sèèn preset narrative to taint it for those wanting to know actual unfolding history with the good and the bad...!

[@frankmueller2781]

Don't kid yourselves anyone, there are *Still* families along the border that are bitter about the war.

[@OldHeathen1963]

Really🙄 🇺🇸

[@frankmueller2781]

@@OldHeathen1963 Hang out in Liberty or Harrisonville.(Where they still celebrate "Younger Days")

[@michaelwatson4339]

This documentary would be a better Testament to history if the speakers names were used where you are quoting citizens

[@MrDersuUzala]

Bad blood is like an egg stain on your tie. You can lick it, but it still won't go away.

[@thomasfeltes1041]

If the million Union soldiers that invaded, the North could come back to life and see what they fought for they would have joined their Southern brothers.

[@hillaryclinton1232]

Anti-Indian anger rose in the late 1880s as the Ghost Dance spiritual movement emerged, spreading to two dozen tribes across 16 states, and threatening efforts to culturally assimilate tribal peoples. Ghost Dance, which taught that Indians had been defeated and confined to reservations because they had angered the gods by abandoning their traditional customs, called for a rejection of the white man’s ways. In December 1890, several weeks after the famed Sioux Chief Sitting Bull was killed while being arrested, the U.S. Army’s Seventh Cavalry massacred 150 to 200 ghost dancers at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. For their mass murder of disarmed Lakota, President Benjamin Harrison awarded about 20 soldiers the Medal of Honor. Resilience

[@IchabodvanTassel98]

Weirdo

[@OldHeathen1963]

Harrison Sucked! It was the beginning of the Nader.

[@richardprice5978]

those 20 should have been court-martialled with dishonourable discharge papers ect. thats sick 🤮ect.

[@theodoremartin6153]

Disarmed ?

[@genxpilot69]

Of all people, Hillary? Wow!

[@donbrunton5700]

The open southern border, the push against voter ID laws...dose this not remind you of Bleeding Kansas, but on a national scale?

[@Irish_For_Life1842]

1) I would be an abolitionist. 2 From the Southern point of view, power had shifted to the north because of the industrial revolution which was primarily in the north and the surge of population in the north. This set the stage for 3) the elimination of the Missouri compromise by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. 4) Had that act not passed we would not have had Bleeding Kansas.5) Was Bleeding Kansas an unanticipated event? Probably but it certainly should not have been. 6) Assuming the Missouri Compromise was never eliminated, would this have made a difference long-term? Probably not at all. The ONLY shot remotely possible to avoid the civil was to stave the war off long enough until technology made it more financial sense to automate picking cotton. 7) The north had already moved away from slavery due to other issues than abolition of slavery. 8) The north was not anti racist. 9) The Union soldiers weren't fighting for abolition of slavery or against racism. They fought only for Union. The writings of the soldiers bear this out. 9) The ordinary "Rebel" fought because in their words you're down here. 10) THANK GGOD THE NORTH WON!

[@christinezehnle7552]

No not all fought for that reason. My 2XGGF was raised a quaker, did not believe in slavery.

[@Irish_For_Life1842]

@@christinezehnle7552 The one exception does not negate the overall rule.

[@darricksullivan7059]

Be careful what you ask for,we don't need a civil war part 2.

[@isldeur]

Wow, Isn't the exploration and remembrance of History revealing, cleansing and refreshing? Hiding History requires wasting energies too necessary for Living!!!

[@frosty820]

I really enjoyed the information throughout this video. Especially having a x4 great grandfather that fought for the south. It was very informative and got very in-depth in a lot of different situations. However, I didn’t appreciate the little whips in between scenes when talking about slavery. The civil rights war was fought white In majority by white men specifically to end slavery.(But everyone over looks that) this was a very good video, but overall it portrays the south in a very negative way for reasons that are fully opinionated in many parts throughout this video. 🙌🏽 keep up the good work but wanted to give my opinion because as a proud southern man, whom would not consider my self racist at all parts of this video confused/upset me.

[@nicholasvalentine2428]

I'm confused around 56mins as to why John Brown would be upset that Sumner got beaten up. Surely John Brown is on the opposite side to Sumner?! Could some clever person explain please. btw I'm English and spent 4 months at University of Kansas in the Autumn of '93 and have fond memories of Lawrence. So many beautiful women for a start ;-)

[@rd264]

sir, sen charles sumner was anti slavery as was brown, and brown wouldve therefore been greatly perturbed by the caning by brooks.