Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian Steven Hahn - Pre-Civil War Politics

[@richardsevers7686]

Excellent lecture

[@MadTracker]

A fantastic lecture! Thanks

[@dpg227]

An informative and interesting talk.

[@timothystrachan4109]

Great Lecture

[@avenaoat]

Whether South had given up the plans for expansion of slavery (Annexion Cuba, Mexico, etc) Kansas, the Civil War would have missed?

[@idabaluch7351]

very very useful

[@nickhomyak6128]

Georgia was not as big in 1790 as New York..Why do some scholars argue the Constitution does not recognize man as property? One of the best american history lectures ever[ perhaps..

[@rafaelespinoza6530]

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[@JoseFernandez-qt8hm]

northern abolitionists lived off Slavery as much as southern planters. northern bankers made loans, northern insurance companies underwrote activities, northern textile mills bought slave cotton, northerners ate slave sugar and smoked slave Tabacco and before 1808, slave ships built and crewed by northerners transported slaves into the United States. Maybe the war happened because the guilty feeling of northern abolitionists and indignation of southern slavers at the hypocrisy of the abolitionists. And, what's crazy is that most people today are decedents of post-bellum immigrants who had nothing to do with slavery and just want to get on with life.

[@avenaoat]

The biggest sugar exporter in the World about 1860 was France from SUGAR BEET! Sugar beet was produced by free French farmers and not slaves as the sugar cane. The sugar beet sugar was German invention at the end of the XVIIIth Century!

[@avenaoat]

From 1840 France was the biggest sugar exporter of the Word from free farmer produced sugarbeet!

[@hearmeout9138]

The average consumer has no idea how much of their annual purchasing power still supports slavery. The global corporate hierarchy obfuscates the actual degree to which raw materials coming from many developing nations are produced using exploited labor.

[@rafaelespinoza6530]

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[@normanleach5427]

It isn't that a country dedicated to democracy is well informed. That is the essential fact-based content. An educated populous has to have both a capacity for critical thinking and an ennobling impetus to embrace the subtlety of Sensibility.

[@xada2397]

that has not and never will occur.

[@normanleach5427]

@@xada2397 Our 'print culture' of gathering information via word of mouth / discourse, but also by reading ...has changed to a zeitgeist based on images and editorial/discussion laden visual/soundbites or by infotainment's blatent propaganda mills of Murdock and perhaps Musk. We'll see if nihilism and magical thinking will yeild byandlarge to a healthy consciousness orientation.

[@xada2397]

@@normanleach5427 print culture is just a form of public opinion, and public opinion is always controlled by an oligarchy. democracy did not work 2500 years ago and it does not work today. the masses cannot think critically.

[@normanleach5427]

@@xada2397...said a critical thinker...my money is on the influence involved in a rising tide that raises all boats.

[@xada2397]

@@normanleach5427 critical thinking is genetic, just like intelligence. you can't teach it. the vast majority are the way they are. accepting this is the only way to move past the sham of democracy.

[@JA51711]

The true history is not about interpretation. It's about fact. Shame

[@eatfrenchtoast]

Let me guess your interpretation is always the fact

[@dorcasmcleod9439]

I think the speaker has found through his research has manifested some things he thought were one way may that might well have not strictly been that way. The idea that history is about interpretation is for me understood as "correlation is not necessarily causation." And with history the saying is, "history is written by the victors." History is indeed the investigation and accounting of past events, but the ability for anyone to know totally, purely, and without dispute iany subject is in actuality impossible.