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Lecture 16 - Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War
FromHIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
Lecture 16 - Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War
FromHIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
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Aug 22, 2017
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This lecture focuses on the process of emancipation after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The Proclamation, Professor Blight suggests, had four immediate effects: it made the Union army an army of emancipation; it encouraged slaves to strike against slavery; it committed the US to a policy of emancipation in the eyes of Europe; and it allowed African Americans to enlist in the Union Army. In the end, ten percent of Union soldiers would be African American. A number of factors, Professor Blight suggests, combined to influence the timing of emancipation in particular areas of the South, including geography, the nature of the slave society, and the proximity of the Union army. TranscriptLecture Page
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Aug 22, 2017
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Titles in the series (27)
Lecture 3 - A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology: Professor Blight lectures on southern slavery. He makes a case for viewing the U.S. South as one of the five true "slave societies" in world history. He discusses the internal slave trade that moved thousands of slaves from the eastern seaboard to the cotton states of the Southwest between 1820 and 1860. Professor Blight then sketches the contents of the pro-slavery argument, including its biblical, historical, economic, cynical, and utopian aspects. Transcript Lecture Page by HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877