Emancipation: James Oakes & Sean Wilentz

James Oakes, distinguished professor of history at the Graduate Center, discusses Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, his new book, which talks about the aims of the Civil War, with Sean Wilentz, the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University. With Freedom National, Oakes, a leading figure in the study of the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and the Old South, lays to rest the popular notion that the Civil War was merely a war to restore the Union. He argues instead for antislavery's centrality to the war. Oakes's previous books include The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics; Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South; and The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. Noted historian and public intellectual Sean Wilentz has written with precision on such topics as race and class in America, popular music, and contemporary politics. His many books include the Bancroft Prize-winning The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln; Bob Dylan in America; and The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008.

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Amazing, thank you!

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I agree with what Michel Foucault had to say.

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What bunk! Oaks never mentions that 80% of slaves remained on the plantations and often the Union forces had to burn their homes and kill all their livestock and burn the fields to drive them off of the plantations and their homes at the end of bayonets!
Then Oaks states that he doesn't know how much the South is paying to the Federal Government with the tariff but admits that it was the largest contribution to the Treasury. Well, that's absurd. Certainly, Oaks knows that that figure was 85% of the budget. He also dismisses the presumption that you don't secede over a "tax". This is foolishness! When the South is almost entirely supporting the Federal Government and is paying a 14% tariff and that number is raised to 45% and an additional tariff on iron imports is added to this Morrel Tariff, which will increase incrementally and exponentially over the years, his feigned ignorance and statement are absurd. The South did not secede to protect slavery or because of fear that it would be abolished. The US Constitution protected slavery!
The South seceded for the same reason that South Carolina threatened secession in 1828 when the Tariff of Abomination was passed, which had about the same rates as the Morell Tariff. Oaks is a Yanke apologist for an obscene war that was unconstitutionally and illegally waged on the South and the Confederacy, which brought about the theft of the most valuable property in all the States $3.5 Billion in human capital, of which 85% was mortgaged to Northern Financiers. Enough with historical revisionism, mendacious fabrications, and convenient memory lapses! The greatest conquest of the South was not by armies, but by historians with their revisionism forced down the throats of conquered peoples who only want to scream "All right, Already - Just Stop!"

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some slaves understood, not all....

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