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

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...View more