This is, by far, the best documentary ever made. I’ve seen this 11 hour documentary on the American Civil War twice, once as a teenager and again a few years ago. It is the authority on all things to do with the Civil War, featuring legendary historian Shelby Foote, whose southern drawl soothes the belligerent northern ear. One critic called his voice ‘sweet molasses over hominy.” I happen to agree.
This isn’t for the ADD addled cocaine donkey puncher. But if you have time to sit through a long documentary, discussing the single most important event in American history since transvestites were permitted to shave their fucking beards in the Target ladies room, I promise you an epic experience.
I suggest buying it and watching it like a normal human being. However, if you’re into watching 11 hour documentaries on a computer, like a moron, here’s the link.
Happy Memorial Day. Festivities at House Fly continue…
NOTE: My favorite part was when President Lincoln unleashed General William Tecumseh Sherman upon the savage of the south. He taught them a lesson in northern manners that is remembered, by the ruins, until this day.
“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
-BEAS (unknown date)
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Despite your politics, which disturb me to no extent, I find you as a human being to be of the first order. I agree, best documentary to date.
My politics are a reflection of my life experience. You probably were raised in a zoo, which is why you want free stuff.
The only free lunch is a mother’s love. You’re lucky to have one.
Is this my mother secretly posting, trashing my Trump exuberance?
Ha!
Can’t be. Your mother is a much better person than I.
@sk
What’s the matter? You’re upset the south lost?
Government requires you to have a license to have an opinion pal.
Regards,
Chuck Bennett
I love the south (geography, climate and location). However, a sense of entitlement to imprison people as slave workers for economic gain is completely wrong. It is against the basic principles of the founding of the United States.
Sense of entitlement? Had nothing to do with that.
It was a business.
Som facts about it.
Indentured servants, white slaves might have had it worse. Not many lived past the seven years. Worked to death because they were less valuable. Merely a rent a car.
6% of the south owned slaves. 1.6 percent of the USA owned slaves including the north.
Most of the slaves in the Americas went to places in Carib and S America. boat owning new englanders, Jews from Portugal -Spain , African kingdoms and Arab traders ran the slave trade.
Arab slave trade was even bigger. You don’t many of the ancestors of them because Arabs would chop off the penises of the men.
These are just a few things the majority of Americans don’t know.
Don’t believe the hype about the south.
Regards
Chuck Bennett
6% of the south owned slaves. 1.6 percent of the USA owned slaves including the north.
During what time period? At any rate, the ownership numbers obscure the massive reliance on slave labor in the South. For most of the period from Independence to the Civil War, slaves accounted for 1/3 of the population in the South. A couple states, Mississippi and South Carolina, had a larger slave population than free population going into the Civil War.
Your 6% number includes the entire free population in the denominator, but only the owners of record in the numerator. That approach would try to tell us that, in a slave-owning household with ma, pa, and 4 kids, 83% of the family didn’t own slaves. The percent of male heads of household who owned slaves would have much higher than 6%.
I’ve seen people go the other way with the same census numbers and claim that 1 in 3 families in the South owned slaves. They divided the total number of slave owners by the total number of families, incorrectly assuming that every slave owner represented a unique family.
Facts can be very helpful, but they also can mislead people who don’t understand what the fact represents and who don’t have adequate context for the fact.
At the height of slavery is where that 6% number comes from.
Stats are always a bone of contention. Bigger picture is not the number. Big picture is what matters.
Slaves are the property of men of means. In our time we call then the 1 percenters.
Blacks, native Americans and Whites all had slaves.
Beford Forrest for example is promoted as being a evil KKK guy. The Truth is much different. Fact he was one of the worst enemies the north had, also a fact he incorporated blacks into the process and tried to lift them up. Was very progressive and did things nobody could do. He was a strong guy, people where not going to challenge him cuz they respected his pimp hand. Look up 1875, independent order of the pole bearers speech. Yet the uneducated knock down his statue based on the same BS they try to push on people now.
Point is, many facts are lost when emotions creep in.
Regards
Chuck Bennett
A great documentary, but an even greater book.