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Lecture 10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
FromHIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
Lecture 10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
FromHIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
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20 minutes
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Aug 19, 2017
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This lecture picks off where the previous one left off, with a discussion of the legacies of John Brown. The most important thing about John Brown's raid, Professor Blight argues, was not the event itself, but the way Americans engaged with it after the fact. Next, Professor Blight discusses the election of 1860, a four-way battle won by the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln. In the wake of Lincoln's election, the seven states of the deep South, led by South Carolina, seceded. The lecture closes with an analysis of some of the rationales underlying southern secession. TranscriptLecture Page
Released:
Aug 19, 2017
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Podcast episode
Titles in the series (27)
Lecture 2 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region: Professor Blight offers a number of approaches to the question of southern distinctiveness. The lecture offers a survey of that manner in which commentators--American, foreign, northern, and southern--have sought to make sense of the nature of southern society and southern history. The lecture analyzes the society and culture of the Old South, with special emphasis on the aspects of southern life that made the region distinct from the antebellum North. The most lasting and influential sources of Old South distinctiveness, Blight suggests, were that society's anti-modernism, its emphasis on honor, and the booming slave economy that developed in the South from the 1820s to the 1860s. Transcript Lecture Page by HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877