I made some YouTube videos about the war and what caused it. Their all just a little under 10 minutes. Hopefully I wasn't too boring. Let me know what you think.
Why the South Had the Right to Secede
How Economic Policies Led to Southern Secession
Clearing Up Misconceptions About Slavery in America
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BWF89: MacFall:Market Anarchist Gadsden flag Credit: Rich333That's awesome. /right clicks, save as/
MacFall:Market Anarchist Gadsden flag Credit: Rich333
Credit: Rich333
/right clicks, save as/
heres my stars and bars, I also have a much more elaborate and decorative one which I apparnetly have never uploaded onto photobucket so I will have to post that one when I return home from work
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n314/thorsmitersaw/ancaprebel.gif
The state is a disease and Liberty is the both the victim and the only means to a lasting cure.
New video where I reviewes a few books I read on the war: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ivcc8mnaeB4
Kudos to you BWF89 for taking a stand and using your head.
I listened to the 2nd and 3rd. Very informative--really admire your efforts. Maybe just a small tip--a more conversational style might help the listener to take in all the info. (and I'm not saying I could do any better!)
A couple things I've wondered about:
How many freed blacks were living in the South prior to the war, and what were conditions and opportunites like for them?
How many Southerners actually believed secession was necessary to protect slavery? There had to be more than just some who believed this.
...but what do I know.
Broken Window:How many Southerners actually believed secession was necessary to protect slavery?
They were not thinking about slavery when they secceded. Slavery did not become an issue at all until Lincoln made it one with his Emancipation Proclamation after the Battle of Antietam.
...And nobody has ever taught you how to live out on the street, But now you're gonna have to get used to it...
Broken Window:How many Southerners actually believed secession was necessary to protect slavery? There had to be more than just some who believed this.
NIce choice for a user name.
Folks didn't need to get slaugtered and raped and disillusioned, to oppose slavery. Government is needed for nothing, if it can not preserve it's initial tenat 'preserve the people.' How would civility as it has and does more justly served the end of liberty rather than a cruel means to justify a common end. Peace, freedom, joy, these are all of course common ends. Not all means justify right ends. I preach to the chior, I'm sure.
I think free markets do it better all the time and in every way more effeciently than any other systems. Why wouldn't the market moraly object, as they somewhat do today with the fear of licking bright paint and so on.
My impression is: in hindsight all involved would of rightfully been on the side of I prefer not to harm my brother. Perhaps 'the war of forced unity', ended the experiment, and todays america is ex delicto?
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