HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
Lecture 03 - 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.
(from oyc.yale.edu)
Lecture 03 - A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology
Time
Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00]
1. Introduction
[00:08:39]
2. The American South as Slave Society - From the Foreign Slave Trade to the Slave Jail
[00:23:54]
3. Slavery for the Sake of Social Stability
[00:33:54]
4. Biblical, Historical, Amoral, Economic, and Utopian Arguments for Slavery