Chapter 1: Nuance in war history
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all right so was the u.s civil war fought over slavery i'm making this video basically to
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inject a whole lot of needed nuance into a subject which has become widespread and political and these are kind of the
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two most dangerous things you can have as a combination for a political talking point one because if it's widespread this
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means it needs to have been stripped of all of its complications of all of its nuances in order to cater to get in the mind of the lowest
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common denominator so you have a very very simplified narrative uh and it's political um and i think what political means is that
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uh it needed to it's been bestowed with enough importance in somebody's mind that they actually go
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out and advocate for this thing and fight passionately for this thing but when you have that with a simplified narrative um you don't really
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have the force of a well-reasoned argument to get it to stick into someone's head so you need some sort of substitution
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and almost all the time what happens with these types of situations is emotion is substituted for a well-reasoned argument
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so you end up with these arguments like slavery was the cause of the civil war um which are very very oversimplified
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removed of all nuance and perpetuated by emotion so it's ironically these are the subjects which
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most desperately need to be discussed but which are the most hardest to dis the hardest to discuss and i'm choosing to do it because you know it's
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the benefit of having a youtube channel with 14 subscribers is you can more or less say whatever you'd like so anyways was the u.s civil war fought
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primarily over slavery i'm going to argue that no it was not now slavery was a
Chapter 2: Economic causes of war
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factor but it was a factor of a larger of a larger picture primarily the us civil war was fought for economic
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reasons and more generally speaking pretty much all wars are fought for economic reasons this shouldn't really be a controversial
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statement um but i i think a lot of times what ends up happening with wars is that uh either sometime during the middle of
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the war or perhaps sometimes afterwards a moral justification is construed to either get people to continue
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fighting or to after the fact justify the fact that you just did all this fighting and killing all this horrible stuff and you should be doubly skeptical if
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the person who's saying that they were they had the moral high ground uh were the winners because of course you're not going to write in your own history books how
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you let all these hundreds of thousands of people die just because you thought you were paying too much on taxes or your tariffs were too high uh
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that's a little bit of uh foreshadowing so anyways yeah people should be intensely skeptical of this narrative that slavery
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was the only reason that the the union the north fought in the civil war and um i'm gonna go a little bit into the nuance and hopefully hopefully convince
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you that it was basically just a boring economic war just as everything else and then slavery entered into the picture i think later as a moral justification as well
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as a tactical move now the emancipation proclamation was a brilliant tactical move more than it was a
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a moral you know a good moral move it wasn't done primarily for moral reasons
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um and before we start i want to i want to even talk a little bit about philosophically what does it mean for a war to have a cause how do we determine
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the cause of a war this is a bit of a nuance which is entirely stripped out of this entire conversation so let's start with it um can the cause of a war said to be
Chapter 3: Defining the cause of war
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what starts it in the first place or is it what continues it or is it a combination of both and if so how much
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a lot of times cause could be just the uh the prime the prime mover of the of these actions you know
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uh and if it's the case that it's just the initial thing that leads to war is the cause then slavery had practically nothing to
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do with the civil war if it is a combination of the initial motivations combined with motivations later throughout the war than it had
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something to do with the war but arguably still not that much not that it wasn't that important um also whose viewpoint do you take who do you
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ask what the cause of the war was do you ask the elites fighting on either side oh and by the way which side do you ask the victor or the loser
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um but if you ask the elites how do you know that they're actually telling you their motivations how can you trust the cause of the war
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that the elites give we know that they would they would of course never lie to uh get more people into the army or
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do something like that deceptive use propaganda so you know it's doubtful to me that you could even trust the motivations of some
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of these elites and the more interesting question is uh can you use the motivations of the individuals who are actually
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perpetuating the war that is the enlisted men the grunts can you use their motivations to say that that was the cause or at least an important cause of
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the war and again you have the same question of how do you trust their motivations how do you trust that they're genuine or how do you trust that they weren't
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lied to and then you get even another question beyond that say that because a lot of people will say like you know okay
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the southerners who were fighting in the in the rebel army they they didn't actually own slaves so they weren't fighting for slavery but they were sold a bag of goods they were sold this live
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you know we're fighting for states rights and things like that um but the question to me becomes even if that was
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100 bunk that the elites who were selling them to sly and making this propaganda did not believe that at all and they knew it to be untrue
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uh if these men in their heart of hearts still believed that they were fighting for states rights and they made up obviously the bulk of the men in this war
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could that not be said to be a large a part of the cause of the war you know people surely a war is made up of people
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who are actually perpetuating the war and surely they have motivations that without it they wouldn't be a part of that war so how can that not be considered to be part of the cause
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so right off the bat people are only looking at this one specific aspect of what makes up a cause of the war and that is
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you know perhaps the political or the economic situation which which uh caused the elites to get people into war
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but there are many many other external motivations it's already way more complicated uh but with that out of the way i'm going to go into
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a bit more of a typical narrative about why the civil war the u.s civil war was not caused or fought over slavery caused by our
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fault over slavery and i'll split it into a few sections the first one is going to be just two sections basically first one i'm going to be talking about
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the northern attitudes towards slavery and towards the south and then i'll talk about the southern economic
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factors which led to the civil war so we'll begin with the north um i want to start off by saying i looked into the numbers of people that were actually considered considered
Chapter 4: Northern attitudes
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themselves abolitionists or took part um you know in some way in some sort of abolitionist movement so
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uh to get a percentage of how many people were actually you know could be fairly considered abolitionists those are people who opposed and wanted to abolish slavery uh so in
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the north at the time in all the northern states there were 22 million people uh 100 000 of them across hundreds of
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different groups uh considered themselves uh there were 100 000 people across hundreds of different uh abolitionist groups
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so basically the total with i think a liberal estimate is around a hundred thousand of 22 million that's about half a percent um
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and to put that into perspective right now the libertarian party uh has about one percent of the us population so
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uh by total percentage uh there were twice the number of libertarian or twice the number of libertarians now than there were abolitionists back then
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uh in the libertarian party if you're not familiar is you know it's not so fringe as to be unrecognizable by the common man on the street but it's not
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it's not super popular and they're kind of viewed as weirdos um abolitionism was basically you know people who actually wanted to
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push for the idea politically there were more people undoubtedly who were against slavery morally but the people who actually wanted to push for it politically
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they were a very fringe you know far-left group basically uh to use today's parlance not super super common at the time
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before the war uh so yeah that that's where that's where abolitionists stood before the war um in the north basically
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a lot of people would have probably it's fair to assume they would have probably been on the surface against slavery but they didn't want to take political action on
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it for for various reasons uh enough to get get into a little bit more i want to bring up
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a very important piece of legislation it's called the corwin amendment this was to be the 13th amendment of the constitution
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ironically very ironically you'll see why this was drafted passed by the required two-thirds in the
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house and senate those are the chambers of congress in the u.s uh and then it moved it moves on to be amendments moved on to be ratified by
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the states and it was ratified by ohio illinois in maryland and this process by the way was only stopped by the civil war ratification likely
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would have continued we have reason to believe likely would have passed on this amendment this is the entire wording of the amendment
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quote no amendment shall be made to the constitution which will authorize or give to congress the power to abolish or interfere
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within any state with the domestic institutions thereof including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws
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of said state in other words slavery will always and forever be okay and we can't even make an amendment
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on a federal level to interfere with with uh states who want to have it they were completely they were completely sacrificing forever
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the ability for the federal government to have a say in what states could do on slavery and this was again passed in the senate passed in the house and it was on its
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way to be ratified by all the nor all these northern states so the north at least the politicians at least people
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in power were very much okay politically with slavery so much so that they would they would have it for always and
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forever so this narrative that northerners were pretty much all staunchly abolitionist is it it's just absolutely ridiculous
Chapter 5: Lincoln's motivations
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uh now moving on to another important figure uh lincoln we'll talk about some of his views on slavery
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and uh some of the political actions that he took so first off um a lot of people try to make the argument that
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lincoln wasn't at all opposed to slavery i think that's completely unfair i think on a moral level
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he was absolutely opposed to slavery he's there's a few quotes of him saying saying such that you know it's basically a terrible institution
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but i think those people also don't bring up the fact that he never felt strongly enough about it to actually take political action
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on the all these moral feelings that he had that slavery was bad you know he he stated uh one
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when he was um i think i'm not sure if it was before he was elected or not but he stated that he absolutely would not oppose the corwin
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amendment uh he stated many times while he that he was campaigning that he would not at all touch slavery the institution of slavery wouldn't try to make it illegal
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at all um there's a very important quote by him during the war and it goes something i don't have the exact quote but it goes something to the
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effect of if i could preserve the union without frame the slaves i would do it if i could preserve the union with freeing some of the slaves and not
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freeing others i would do it and if i could preserve the union and free all the slaves i would do it which is to say he had political
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motivations that far outweighed his moral feelings on slavery so he's not quite the you know the paragon of freedom that he's sometimes
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made out to be today uh in an important point that you know just to bring it back to very realistic terms uh and get you kind
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of thinking the way he probably would have been thinking why would abraham lincoln this guy who was to be president of all the united states including the southern states why would
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he want to enact legislation which would completely the economy of half of this country uh it it just makes no political sense
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and these political consideration considerations would have far outweighed and indeed did far outweigh any of his moral qualms about
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slavery so that's kind of lincoln's take on it um basically the point of the of the civil
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war for the north at least in the beginning beyond the shadow of that in the beginning was preservation of the union lincoln only
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wanted as as i've said in that quote he only wanted to preserve the union at any costs um the biggest reason for this was i
Chapter 6: Preserving the union
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mean one economic you didn't want to lose a massive product productive area of your country but also there was a looming threat from some of
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the old world powers that the americas could you know fall out of the protection of
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the the liberal democracy of the united states and fall back into the hands of the the monarchs of europe at the time
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canada you know still owned by the british they had begun when they when the u.s civil war kicked off they had begun amassing troops right
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on the canadian u.s border on the north uh several many many troops in that if the u.s ever uh basically was unable to defend itself
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uh canada would have would have expanded a little bit you know and at the same time the french uh in 1861 albeit later in 1861 the war
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the civil war had already started but they had invaded mexico and took over basically the northeast right on the coast there
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and fairly a fair ways anyways and i'm not sure exactly where they draw the maps draw the lines on the map but they had also amassed massive amounts of
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french troops on the southern u.s border and again they were ready to strike if anything if they smelled any weakness basically in the u.s they could have
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captured reins uh basically made new colonies that would have been under the control of the crown and that would have threatened us hegemony in the americas
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so that was the prime the prime motivation of the north to fight the civil war they just basically wanted to maintain power
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and you know you could say if you want to be generous with them they wanted to preserve this idea of democracy in america and keep it a liberal
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continent rather than the uh have it fall to the powers of the the monarchs in europe so
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just remember that it was basically just a a uh a war for preservation of the union first and foremost
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uh and also i'll mention uh specifically specifically the emancipation proclamation um i had mentioned before that i think this was basically
Chapter 7: The Emancipation Proclamation
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a tactical decision rather than any sort of uh primarily moral decision which it's kind of made out to be today
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and some points to to uh to support that one it was only made two years into the war
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in 1863. um i think he could have jumped on that a little bit earlier if uh if the primary motivation of the
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civil war was to fight slavery from the get-go he probably would have done that earlier two this this is on it being a tactical decision
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uh it gave a massive moral high ground to the north to the union troops um and this would have been great for morale
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for the troops because they to this point had basically been fighting a political and economic war and morale was starting to slip and the
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best way to increase morale is to give your side the moral high ground say we're no longer fighting for you know dollars and stuff for rich bankers in the north we're
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fighting for slavery and freedom for for these people who are rightfully americans and all these things you know you can get really rah-rah with it and really
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spice up your propaganda so it's a huge moral windfall for the north uh thirdly a massive increase in the
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troops of the north uh 180 000 freed slaves ended up joining the union union army and fighting for them that's massive in a war that
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i don't know the exact numbers but it was something like a million maybe even slightly less than a million people fighting in uh on both sides combined 180
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000 new troops uh and lastly there's there's the wrinkle for lincoln for the moral narrative of lincoln that
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uh he was when he passed the emancipation proclamation the wording in it was such that
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only blacks in the south were freed so only slaves in the south were freed and only slaves in the south
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uh in territories that weren't yet captured by the union army so why would this this moral
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legislation primarily moral legislation why would it not free the slaves in the rest of the country well i don't know maybe there were other uh other considerations there other
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tactical considerations other than moral going into the emancipation proclamation so anyways that's a couple brief notes
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on the the attitudes of northerners to slavery and to the south into the civil war now i'm going to get into what was
Chapter 8: Southern economic factors
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considered the motivations for war in the south of the time and these are primarily economic now to begin uh it goes it goes a while
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back it goes to the tariff of 1828.
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a little bit of background on this basically after the war of 1812 in the us which was fought against britain british goods began
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flooding the us and they were much much cheaper than goods that could be produced in the north in response to this the us government
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the federal government came up with a protectionism scheme which included these tariffs the tariff of 1828 a tariff if you don't
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know it's basically a tax on imported goods so this meant for the south who was less industrialized than the north
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the north they could basically make any of the uh the raw materials they needed the iron and the uh whatever they need for buildings and stuff like that the south who was
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completely you know pretty by and large still in a completely agrarian economy they required they relied on these imports and they relied on the cheaper
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imports from europe because they could they could get them much much cheaper than uh importing things from the north so what this
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uh what these tariffs did was they unfairly targeted the south who had to who was relying on the imports from from europe they were now hit with these
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these massive import tariffs and the average by the way on these tariffs was much much higher than we see today was it was 45 percent so you know somewhere even higher than
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50 taxes on importing things that we that they needed some of these things by the way were absolute necessities of life food stops and things like that not just
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industrial industrial requirements so all of a sudden they were basically required to import all their stuff uh from the
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north and pay way way more or import it from europe still and still pay much more um so it really hurt them in that way but it was a double whammy situation
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because uh europeans in response to these u.s tariffs also imposed retaliatory tariffs and
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these were on raw materials that the south required their economy required them to uh to export uh things like cotton and tobacco these
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were their major the things that they produced in the large quantities and now europeans were going to buy less and less of them
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so they were they were being squeezed by both ends by these uh by these tariffs that's the tariff um there were a few
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more there was a lot of legislation surrounding these but basically to gloss over it um the situation got way worse and it
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led to the nullification crisis of 1833 and this is an important note to bring up
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this was you know it's it's very well documented this is actually in history books um in 1833
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uh the southerners were so fed up they actually almost seceded at this point and they did it entirely for
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economic reasons so there was almost a civil war in 1833 for entirely for economic reasons
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now it turns out they ended up negotiating down the price of the tariffs and it would step down over the years and this was viewed by the southerners as a
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as a victory so crisis averted there wasn't going to be a civil war yet now again to gloss over a couple decades
Chapter 9: The Morrill Tariff
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of histories of the history of tariffs and taxes um the next big tax the the the tariff that broke the thing the straw that broke the campus
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back was the moral tariff m-o-r-i-l-l named after a man named after morrow this was passed on march
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2 1861 a month before the start of the civil war about a month and a half this also it was the highest tariff
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yet imposed on the south we had we they saw tariffs of um you know 55 plus on some of the things that they had to import so it was
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absolutely devastating for them and they were already fed up this uh led the southerners in direct response to this to make their own
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constitution and this constitution by the way uh it banned high import tariffs that were like the ones that were being imposed upon them
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now the northerners knew that the southerners weren't weren't uh happy with this new situation so what they decided to do to enforce this protectionism scheme of theirs that was
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hurting the southerners they used the forts that were already existent existing in southern southern port towns
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to enforce it so one such example of this was fort sumter in charleston south carolina and if
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you've studied the u.s civil war you'll know that this is where the the first shots of the civil war were fired and by the way you know rebels i'm sorry it was the
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southerners that fired the first shot um maybe that maybe the northerners were aggressing but i don't know man you did fire the first shot
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so but anyways this is this is basically the official start of the civil war and the the ironic thing about this
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is we already saw through the corwin amendment that the north was completely okay with keeping the institution of slavery
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however they were not okay at all with the southerners not paying taxes this little ant crawling over the uh the camera
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anyways yeah so that's the that that's the the crazy thing these people who supposedly were trying to grasp grasp the moral high ground completely okay with slavery not okay with the
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southerners not paying taxes and this uh led in large parts of the civil war these economic considerations that's at
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least at the very least what started it now again later on in the war to recapture the moral high ground to
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improve the morale of the union troops they'd and to mess up the economy and the the morale of the south they did uh implement the emancipation
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proclamation and this is when the war became about slavery or at least what that's what the propaganda poster said and that's what the victors of the war
Chapter 10: Summation of motivations
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were of course going to write in their history books after they won that yeah we were just doing this thing our you know enlightened citizens were
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fighting their dirty swine to you know they just wanted to keep this absolutely unchristian
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institution of slavery that's that's the only thing that we're fighting about yeah disregard the bad things we did no i'm not equating
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owning slaves to imposing high terrorism on someone but the the fact of the matter is you know people weren't really thinking about slavery in regards
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to this war and it's a very sad truth you want you want the north the side you identify with you know i'm a northerner
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you want them to have been fighting a moral war but it just doesn't doesn't really seem to be the case
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so yeah it in summation uh i believe the sum total of motivations for the war looked something like this the north was fighting to protect the
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tariffs they had imposed on the south and to preserve the union and only later did they pivot i think for tactical reasons to say
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saying they were fighting for slavery the south on the other hand was basically fighting for tax tax reduction and free trade because
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they wanted to import those goods from europe without these these massive tariffs that were being imposed upon them this is at the very least undeniably
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what started the war okay um anyways i and and i have a few just uh
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tangential points i didn't really find a place in the argument to uh to put these but um i think if you're like a liberal and
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you're trying to promote this idea that the civil war was fought over slavery it might not be even even to be to your benefit because there's some annoying things that like
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the conservatives type do do with this information you know how many times have you heard the steven crowders of the world say oh well you know we're not racist and uh
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republicans actually they fought to free the slaves like no they didn't they absolutely did not they fought for economic reasons uh and two
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if the u.s civil war was fought for over slavery then it becomes incumbent upon black people to
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thank white northerners or you know who at least the white northerners who had uh ancestors who fought to free the slaves
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um but luckily for them that you won't have to do any bowing and scraping because it just doesn't really seem to be the case maybe some of them did again it goes you
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know that individual motivation thing i'm sure there were many uh northerners white northerners who fought to free the slaves and that's why they joined up with the army but
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it doesn't seem as though that's really what started the war in all fairness so anyways that's kind of my take on the thing u.s
Chapter 11: Future topics
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civil war was a cup was a fought over slavery not really a little bit perhaps but not really um i'm going to be doing more videos by
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the way on causes of wars um and i i want to do this basically in an effort to talk about how most wars were actually
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fought for economic reasons um and sort of clear the the smoke of propaganda that was created
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either for motivation during those wars or after those wars and you know those are the things that end up getting recorded in the history books i want to talk about you know the hard
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facts of uh specifically the u.s revolution revolutionary war and the war of 1812 the war of 1812
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26 minutes, 53 seconds
specifically was absolutely a banker's war and you know we don't even have um no one even talks about that one these
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days they just you know it's it's even a meme online to be like what was the war of 1812 fought over because they didn't even have any any good enough propaganda to justify that war you know so we
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they instead just bury it we like even in uh u.s public schools they don't they don't really talk about the war of 1812 not in any detail
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27 minutes, 17 seconds
so i want to get into the history of all that and perhaps do a series of these talking about how all wars are basically economic wars so
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anyways thanks for watching