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Lecture 11 - Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War? artwork
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Lecture 11 - Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?

HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 by Open Yale Courses - David Blight

Aug 19, 2017Education

Professor Blight begins this lecture with an attempt to answer the question "why did the South secede in 1861?" Blight offers five possible answers to this question: preservation of slavery, "the fear thesis," southern n...

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Lecture 11 - Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War? is an episode from HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 by Open Yale Courses - David Blight. Professor Blight begins this lec...

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