HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
Lecture 04 - A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement. Having finished with slavery and the pro-slavery argument, Professor Blight heads North today. The majority of the lecture deals with
the rise of the Market Revolution in the North, in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s. Blight first describes the causes of the Market Revolution - the rise of capital, a transportation revolution - and then moves to its effects on the culture and
consciousness of antebellum northerners. Among these effects were a riotous optimism mixed with a deep-rooted fear of change, an embrace of the notions of progress and Manifest Destiny, and the intensification of the divides between North and South.
(from oyc.yale.edu)
Lecture 04 - A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and ...
Time
Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00]
1. Introduction
[00:04:40]
2. Uriah Parmelee, the Yalie
[00:12:54]
3. The Market Revolution of the North: Mobility, Child Labor, Wealth
[00:27:12]
4. The Idea of Manifest Destiny, the Reality of Change, and the Transportation Revolution
[00:37:23]
5. Contradictions of Progress in American Literature
[00:43:22]
6. Change as Precursor to Reform: A Historical Perspective