Between Lincoln's death and Johnson's failure at Reconstruction the South has been hurting for years. Mostly the rich have stayed "rich" and the poor of both races have been kept poor
@@alastairward2774 I'm guessing you don't live in the south, but there are considerably more wealthy black people in the Southern major metros than the Northern ones.
That's a very wrong assumption of the entire situation. Reconstruction went fine, but it didnt involve embarrassing and looting the south like the north wanted. Johnson was impeached for firing a cabinet member, not for reconstruction stuff.
The great migration did not begin until quite awhile after the war. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Connecticut after World War Two to visit relatives. He wrote to his mother that he went to Honiss’ Seafood Restaurant and was waited on.
@@marvinheemeyer6660 Except for not putting white supremacy on a public platform and catering to Oligarchs. Back to Presidents in the background, where they belong.
@dandagod official with good reason! 99% of them are on the corporate teat. we pay taxes and they give all of it to billionaires/corporations, who don't even need it.
@Shay Do you mean after they were purchased from other Africans, and brought to the Middle East, South America, and North America it was impossible for them to run away, almost the same way they couldn't run away from those who sold, and enslaved them in the first place in Africa where they were bought, and sold by Africans to other Africans
@Shay Every continent has always had some sort of thriving economy as peoples learned agriculture, and stopped being nomadic. I have heard of the Moors, and to say the Moors were black way over simplifies who they were, considering a large portion not only originated in Western Africa, but Northern Africa, and the Middle East places like Morocco, Algeria, Yemen, Syria etc. Also explains why they would conquer places like Malta, Sicily, Spain, and other parts of the Mediterranean. Rice production in North America began in the mid 19th century, which is also the time where large migrations from Asia to North America began. My comment was made because you made it sound like only peoples from Africa knew how to cultivate, and grow rice. Did you know more African slaves were taken to the Middle East than North America, and the reason there are far less decedents in the Middle East today is because a vast majority were immediately castrated?
@@MatiasGeraldoThe2nd lol police killings of blacks happens very rare but chicago just had several shootings over the last few days which were black on black....
It’s always sobering to think about how much struggle my ancestors had to go through for me to be where I am today. All because of fear and hate of black people in the US.
I feel like those people in the South during Reconstruction Era failed to see that everyone is actually one race, the human race, and that we should love all other humans equally. Those slave owners were blinded by money and lack of morals and they didn’t see that.
@@maximilianolimamoreira5002 you aren't talking about how society and the government in its dealings and policies see humans, you're talking about nature. not really poignant when a certain group of humans with a certain complexion entered a country with humans of a different complexion and proceeded to turn them into property and experiments.
this is the type of things they should be teaching in AP US History and normal history classes. i never knew anything was like this. i only thought it got as bad as the Jim Crow Laws and segregation.. but this is far worse and corrupt.
This info isn't taught in AP US history because much is false or misleading. The vast majority of antebellum southern whites were poor and did not own slaves. Highly unlikely most wealthy white southern women were forced to scrub floors, etc. after the war ended. Most whites who fought/died for the confederacy owned little to no land and certainly no slaves. Very few wealthy whites even fought on either side! Not sure what Weird History means by "resentment". And not all areas in the south were horrible for black people right after the end of the war. Until the 1870's many southern states had republican elected officials and remained firmly under union control. My ears were bleeding by minute 7. P.S. For firsthand insight into a poor white southerner's experience during/after the war I recommend reading "Co Aytch" by Sam Watkins. Very readable and referenced many times in Ken Burns' The Civil War documentary: www.amazon.com/Company-Aytch-Classic-Memoir-Civil/dp/0452281245
@@flashstar99 What about it specifically is so misleading, because although I'm sure poor white southerners didn't have it so easy and were indeed used as pawns for the confederacy, the main point of the video is that WHITE AMERICANS DID NOT HAVE IT (AND NEVER HAVE HAD IT) AS BAD AS BLACK AMERICANS!! Both groups were poor and struggling, but seriously ignoring how much more so one group was disenfranchised is nothing short of willful ignorance. Did you not hear the part about being TAXED for holding any occupation other than agrarian (that means having to pay extra for being a citizen that would actually contribute greatly to society, when you've already come from nothing), or the part about being JAILED AND WORKED IN CONVICT LEASING for not being employed at all (Vagrancy)? And that's just the tip of the iceberg. What part of SLAVERY are you not understanding? Women and children were raped, yet it was legal. Families were ripped apart, yet it was legal. HUMANS were tortured and treated as animals, yet it legal. Plus, with all due acknowledgement of the struggles and grit of those poor white southerners, the fact is that they were still so racist and segregationist and white supremacist in their ideology. They could have voted for progress and integration, but the vast majority for generations chose to vote for keeping life for black americans as difficult and as miserable as possible. There is no refuting this. They chose to became the KKK and chose to terrorize black americans from their constitutional rights, let alone a decent livelihood. They chose to be vicious and hostile to their black counterparts in the military in both WW1 and WW2, and Korea and Vietnam, etc (discrimination from southerners and northerners, by the way). Guess which states made sure to send segregationists to congress; members who would, during the great depression, make certain that black americans were as excluded from new deal programs as much as possible. DING DING DING, southern states again. You might be one of those gullible enough to believe that after slavery black people just became lazy welfare leeches....and you couldn't be more wrong. Not being allowed to patent innovations stymied a lot of black entrepreneurship. Ironically some envious whites terrorized and destroyed blacks who they deemed "too successful." The Tulsa, Oklahoma Massacre (which saw innocent black women and children assaulted as well) was a shining example of what black people could and have built on their own, without the government, yet racist whites and the racist government and racist media colluded to decimate, as soon as they felt they had an excuse to do so (war planes dropped firebombs, for heck's sake). What's really misleading how little of the history is taught. It's really a tragedy that so much of this painful history is not taught. The fact that the confederacy or even just the antebellum south could be romanticized by anyone is nauseating. And you wonder about the problems in black america to this day. The thing is, black americans still live with the scars of this legacy to this day. Any criticism you can bring yourself to muster against black americans can be attributed to this history that has not yet been taught enough, let alone adequately rectified (slavery and EVERYTHING that happened during it, redlining, convict leasing, predatory lending, gentrification, black face and other disgusting caricatures of our God-given appearances [making us and other races hate our lips, our hair, etc], generational poverty, racial profiling, many a false accusation, police brutality, the lack of credit we get for our contributions to science and technology, the lack of credit we get for our contributions what is considered uniquely american culture, cuisine and music and so forth, etc). Yeah, it's nice to learn about how america saved the world at some points in history, but not teaching about america's evils is a disservice and a disgrace (though I know america isn't the only nation that sugarcoats its history). Regardless of whatever nation we speak of, it may try to omit its evils from history, but the scars cannot be ignored so easily.
@@ah_libra I referenced a few of the misleading or false items in my first comment. The video is titled "what the south was like during reconstruction". Reconstruction ended around 1877. I can't find evidence of several of the claims or those things occurred after reconstruction ended. It also bothers me that the video inaccurately aggrandizes the historic impact of wealthy southern whites at the expense of the poor whites. Racism and slavery (horrible things) were prevalent in the north and south until the middle of the civil war. Many (often poor) southerners did not fight to protect slavery. They often fought for their towns, families, individual liberties, etc. or they were drafted. About 1/4 of the southern white male population of fighting age died during the war. 200,000 were maimed and received little/no welfare. Many white northern soldiers (also often drafted) supported slavery, especially before the emancipation proclamation. Read the primary sources. I've posted a link to an excellent one above. Also recommend reading "All for the Union" by Elisha Hunt Rhodes. Much white-owned land in the south was redistributed through high state taxes, etc. The truth is often messy. IMO it's demeaning and disrespectful to blacks (and whites) to promote an inaccurate account of history that obscures, misleads, and improperly recounts important events.
@@flashstar99 I understand. Some may not like that I agree with this response, but I do. And I apologize for seeming so hostile. Yes, history and the truth can be messy. And there's so much of it that is always omitted or rewritten. I recently learned about Jones County, Mississippi and was elated by the unity that could exist between black and whites in that place and time. I also remember when I first learned about racism in the northern states (something that is sugarcoated to a criminal degree...Malcolm X's father for example was more or less murdered by racists in Michigan, though revisionist history reports it as "an accident" and casts X as "an extremist" without giving any context to his experiences and why he held certain views). Admittedly, so many don't even care about the history, at least until something big happens and things metaphorically (and sometimes physically) come to blows. It's no fun to be the kid that has to do that history report, but learning and knowing the history is important. We can forgive, but we ought not forget; be it slavery, segregation, 9/11, the holocaust, etc. I certainly don't want to be the one to attribute any more blame than necessary; there's a lot of misplaced anger out there [from all sides] due to so many people not knowing all these little details. A black person may cite this brutal history as justification to assault a white person who may not be the least bit racist for example (or vice versa), and that's something that I cannot condone; a manifestation of misplaced anger. I have been that person once before, and I regret it. Fortunately, I wouldn't actually assault anyone, rather I just held suspicions. Also, while a platform like TH-cam may not always have perfect content, it certainly makes it easier for some people to absorb the information. It's at least a good start for one's own deeper research. Thank you for your eloquent response and your understanding (what we all need to do) and for not being too angry at me. I can't speak for any future commenters, however. I'm thankful that you understand, as many patriots often do not and unfortunately cast black americans as being entirely at fault for all the inequities that they still face to this day, or they often try to deflect from the issues by bringing up the World Wars as though that somehow minimizes the magnitude of slavery and the jim crow era. Heck, Hitler got some of his ideas from the way america treated black americans. Both sides give hostility and criticism, but both sides need understanding, empathy and inclusion much more so.
@@ah_libra I replied to your comment earlier but it somehow disappeared. Just wanted to point out that anyone (not you) suggesting that poor southerners were not interested in preserving slavery is spouting untruths. To the contrary, most of them were invested, at the least, because slavery was not just a financial situation whereupon the wealthy had free labor. What you might think of as middle class, and then the actual poorer class, relied on slavery in many ways. (One way off the top of my head was the employment of overseers, which usually were poor white men.) But the biggest issue was white supremacy. The poorest white southerner felt better about himself because at least he wasn't Black. They were invested in maintaining that position. And when the war was over and the demonic cause was lost, poor whites were then invested in Jim Crow because it gave them another leg to stand on, suggesting their superiority to Black people. The wealthy were as they often are now, not without blood on their hands. However, when you examine who was actually doing the lynching and burning of Black neighborhoods, and later, who was beating civil rights workers, as well as shooting and bombing, it wasn't usually the wealthy, but the poor. Omitting the part that white supremacy played in southerners fighting for the Confederacy is disingenuous.
@@Greatmount It's a series produced by this channel. They did the 80s late last year and we've been patiently waiting for the 90s series to start. They put out the trailer for it yesterday. ;)
Good video, and what a sad point in our nation’s history. Johnson was one of the worst presidents we’ve had. He squander such a great opportunity. Makes you ponder just how different America would be today had Lincoln lived to implement his intended reunification and reconstruction.
Yes. Johnson may have wanted to further Lincoln's goal of re-uniting the country without recrimination, but he sure didn't have Lincoln's ability. It was Abraham Lincoln's intension To unite us without cruel contention. But after Abe died Although Johnson tried. What ensued was unbridled dissention! ------------Limerick Rex
ya'll say slavery built America have y'all looked at the self I would much rather be up north y'all are talking about still hasn't been reconstructed? Y'all niggars want to act like you're so f****** special guess what I am not any more special than you and you are not any more special than me
@@limerickrex3354that's the silliest thing I've ever read. If the tyrant hadn't had an extra hole introduced to his head it would have been far worse. Johnson wasn't hated like Lincoln was. The South would have resisted far harder if Lincon were alive then.
My ancestors on both my maternal and paternal sides lived through emancipation and reconstruction. I'm extremely fortunate that in both cases, neither were doomed to sharecropping. Reconstruction was a time of immense opportunity for freed men but also horrifying racism, especially once reconstruction ended in 1877. How your ancestors faired depending a lot on how their former slavers treated former slaves, and quite a bit of luck. In both of my family sides, they were fortunate to get educations at the brand new historically black colleges nearby which set the stage of entering and never leaving the small but burgeoning black middle class. But even with degrees (undergrade and grad), money, property, etc, racism was horrible and omnipresent. My grandmother (whose father worked for Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute) always told me the stories of when the Klan marched through Tuskegee in the 1920s after dark with costumes, torches, guns....the whole package. Our house was right across was the main entrance to campus so all this happened right at their front door. She was literally told that it might be their last night on earth. Relatives and neighbors would perch in the trees with rifles in case shots were fired. Lynchings were common. And people wonder why as a people, we African Americans don't forget events like this.
My family lived thru that period. They were poor white farmers, and my great- grandmother was terrified of black MEN who roamed the back woods at night where they lived and broke in to their house to steal stuff. One black man wanted her gun and she told him that she didn't have one. His reply was, "Iz aint gwine hurt nobody, Iz jes gwine go down der and kill me a couple N__gg--rs"....TRUE STORY.
It is tragic and more people must be made of aware of what African American folks went through. There must be a open and honest reconciliation and honest acceptance among Americans
My dad’s side of the family (white) are from Alabama from as far back as our familial recorded history extends (we have letters and other documentation dating back to the Civil War, or even a little before). My family members were (and are) documented coal miners and subsistence farmers to the beginning of our recorded history. My grandparents grew up in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. I recently asked my granny what she remembered about that time and if she witnessed or was privy to any of the civil rights activities ongoing throughout those years in Alabama. She said (paraphrasing), “We were too darn poor to be mean to each other or do any of that protesting! Black, white, we were all working and just trying to survive!”
@@fionafiona1146 lol don't even bother. You ask these people to cite any misinformation, and they just remain vague and faux-enlightened. It's the QAnon way
There was uncultivated land given to former slaves as housing. There were also settlements in remote parts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida that were created for former slaves.
Redistributions as in give them the slave owners land? That would be like enslaving the enslavers. It makes sense in a way although I wouldnt choose that route if I was trying to hold the union together and keep the country happy.
@@GuyFromTheSouth Slave owner would still have had some of his land, but the extreme too much amount of extra land he would be holding would be taken away & redistributed among the slaves who had nothing. They fought & won a bloody war in which over 300k northerners died to hold the Union together, what's again with pandering to these former slaver owners? Keeping bunch of former slave owners happy doesn't result in keeping the country happy, since they make up a few percentage of population. Leaders at the time especially Johnson had a chance to set things straight, they blew it.
A video on Wendell Scott the first black guy to win a Nascar race. He lived in Danville Virgina. The last capital of the confederation. My dad would go over and watch / help with his race car cause he lived like 5 blocks from him when he was a kid.
He won that race and then was cheated out of it. His trophy & earnings were awarded to Allison who was one of the biggest racist men of that era. It's disgusting to be of European ethnicity even to this day.
I mean 11 slave states that only produce food and cotton versus 21 free states cranking out inventions, which ones do you think built America? They could have stayed seceded and slavery would have built them nothing but more farms, the south’s economy is not what built America
@@ericlikeshalo The initial economies of the northern states were based off of slavery; their access to resources and trade, as well as their longer length of time in the New World as former colonies compared to their much younger southern counterparts (upon whom they had no problem relying for food and raw resources) allowed them to progress to the point where they could be more technologically advanced compared to the South by 1861. But they started as slave-based agrarian economies.
The South in 1860 was rooted in a pre-capitalistic feudal economy that had little industry, few middle class, and few number of towns with their varied trades and services. It was anti-capitalist and proudly spoke of its protection of the weak under its feudal system as opposed to the capitalist's exploitation of the workers. Virginia at the time of the Revolution was an important powerful state in the US, and it just declined over the years as the rest of the US moved into the Industrial Revolution.
@@bye92 um no wonderful lady’s don’t have to sit home all they taking care of kids they can be independent and have kids and have a job🙄🖐🏾 and be a rapper.
@@bye92 As long as its her choice to do that and the family have means to accommodate it. That doesn't make her a wonderful lady, but selfless one, able to put her desires aside for others. I sure wouldn't want that of a wife, but to each his/her own.
Just love your narrative voice!!! It’s perfect balance of tone and volume 🍿 You can either stay up all day listening or fall fast asleep either one is OK with me!
Idea - the history of Florida, like going from Spanish colony to somehow part of the US and how Southern economy impacted those swamps... just totally confused on the timeline of this. In all seriousness; thanks!
Ulysses Grant was still General of the Armies during Johnson’s term and did as much as he could to protect ex-slaves via Federal troops. He was President from 1869-1877. He made significant progress via Reconstruction durning those years. By the end of his second term the nation was tired of Reconstruction and many of its provisions were not continued by Rutherford B. Hayes and the succeeding Congress. Southern whites took full advantage and were mostly unfettered in their abuse of Black people. That’s when life really became bad if you were Black.
And yet protesters took down a bust of Grant, the only president outside of Lincoln that actually tried to help black people in that time period. Shows they don't know much about history and why it's important to learn it. 🤷♀️
@@briannaaaron6804 they didn’t take it down because of his relationship with black people they took his down along with Columbus and Junipero Serra due to their awful treatment of native Americans. Natives experienced severe cultural genocide under Grant. Look up the war against Lakota people. They knew their history.
@@mesij6798 Actually, it partially did. It was done on Juneteenth, and and it was because he supposedly owned one slave that he freed long before the Civil War. And his wife came from a slave owning family. However, Grant was the leading general of the Union army who got General Lee to surrender at Appomattox Court House, and when he became president he passed the 15th Amendment and prosecuted the KKK. He also tried to push Native Americans as equal citizens, but you had a lot of generals ignore him and they did what they wanted. I'm not saying he was effective in helping Native Americans, but I am trying to say he tried to mend fences.
@@briannaaaron6804 So essentially you knew why they took down the bust you just wanted to try and make it look like they didn’t know their history...I can’t imagine why you’d do that🧐... Anyways no Grant did not try to mend fences with Native Americans by pushing them to be “equal” you mean pushing them to reservations and killing those who didn’t comply. He treated them terribly. It’s history there’s no need to justify it. y’all need to accept that the people you guys tend to glorify or defend weren’t worth defending.
@@RUN_IT_UP_ nah you didn't watched the video? Andrew didn't properly implemented reconstruction. That's why blacks weren't allowed to vote cause he didn't brought them under federalism which Lincoln would have done. This video is saying it😅
He was never intended to do anything. Lincoln only chose him as VP because he was the only Southern Senator who didn't resign, so it was a show of loyalty to the Union overall to win votes for Lincoln's reelection. And once that was done, Johnson was just supposed to sit quietly behind Lincoln for the next four years. He was actually targeted for assassination the same night as Lincoln, but where Booth succeeded and the guy who targeted Secretary of State Steward at least managed to attack him, Johnson's guy chickened out and spent the night drinking.
I'd like a Weird History video on the hardships Native Americans went through. History isn't all happiness and freedom,it's also grim,cruel and unfair but still fascinating to learn.
That history is one-sided to favoring the Native Americans"...covering up their barbarity. They were experts in terrorism and methods of torture. Guilt complexed WHITE LIBERALS are writing our history all by themselves. But I'll bet not a single Native American wants to go back to his stick house and primitive lifestyle.
Reconstruction also mandated that anyone having served in the confederate army could exercise the right to vote. Since the vast number of white men served were not able to vote for years. This did not result in reconciliation with whites and blacks, just the opposite occurred.
@@Skyprince27 Yes it shadowbans your comment. It will show you that your comment was posted just fine but if you leave and come back it will not be there. I don't even know if this comment will go through because of the word shadowban.
@@Xpwnxage It did. Just before I press post, I always copy the post to Notes, close the YT app, reopen it and call up the same thread. If the post is not there, I copy-paste the post back in and then putz around with the spelling of contentious words until it will go through. Sometimes it takes half an hour to find what the problem actually is. Once I find it, then I store the alternate spelling that does work in a Notes library.
Love your videos! I have never thought or been taught about this period, from an Arkansas public school kid. Many things are glazed over in history in the south.
Looks like the actual consequence of the war was to turn slavery from a controversial issue to a crime. To effectuate the idea that it had disappeared when in reality the chains went away physically, but not literally. Blacks - and now whites - were still very much enslaved, moreso now to the debt they had accrued simply by, well living. And the rest is history, of course, as we are all now debt slaves since the day we're born. One is encouraged to take on credit and loans from as early an age as possible and is already tied into the system via the debt of their ancestors. The only 'free' people on earth are those that still live an indigenous lifestyle, which is why it was so wholly and utterly attacked through colonial and imperial times to turn all those people into more worker bees. All the puppet masters really want is 'obedient workers'. People who work their entire lives to pay their taxes, rent or mortgage, and maybe send their kids to college if they're especially self-sacrificing, and hopefully have enough to feed themselves at the end of the day. The bondage never went anywhere they just removed the physical chains and replaced them with invisible ones; existentially, slavery has increased to never-before-seen levels on this planet and virtually everyone is a victim of it, with the 'owners' being so rich as to control the narrative, laws, and have the ability to simply print their way out of any situation with money as to avoid any consequences and they have further entrenched their position with the increasing takeover of all world markets, resources and political office. It's funny to me whenever people think of this war as something nobly fought to liberate their fellow man. The true goal and result was quite the opposite. But the powers have a dark sense of humour like that, they often play such jokes at the expense of all subjugated serfs as they gradually move ever closer to the achievement of their ultimate goal
They are doing it still today.Passing BS laws when they feel like it? Laws to do with voting machines and old laws that 'suddenly' don't fit their agendas? NOTHING has changed.America is STILL a bigot and racist filled country? "Certain politicians" seemed to make is acceptable to come out and be loud and proud. It is a disgrace. Some politicians spend more time making laws to make it harder to vote than they do bettering the lives of people. They ease gun laws THE SAME WEEK they are sending 'Thought and prayers' to the parents of children slaughtered at their desks??? America has so many problems......2 days ago I rewatched a video I bought in the 1980's called "The Killing Of America".....NOTHING has changed. If anything it is worse since Trump made being a racist OK.He is a disgraceful human.
Thanks for the video! It would be cool to see a video on Henrietta Lacks and the Hela cells and how horribly the medical community treated her and her family after she died. It's literally true that millions of people wouldn't be alive without her contribution.
She didn't do anything. She was a random raw material that was made worthwhile because of the medical community. Frankly, she should be more than grateful that she got to help in the extremely small way in which she did and got to be famous because of it. It could have just been anyone else, she's not special in any way.
It wouldn’t have been anyone else her cells were unique. No Black American should be grateful for any low standard treatment they received under Jim Crow. Who should be grateful are the White corporations that made Billions off her cells
How does someone get "treated...horribly" after they die? The family recently received a "confidential settlement" even though using a person's cells for research without their consent was perfectly legal in 1951.
The 19th century in America has always been my favorite period of history bcuz it shows how we grew into the nation we became. Sort of the adolescence of the country. Good video.
I think we are still in our adolescence as a country. In Europe they have churches buildings that are 1,000 years old. We are still fresh out of the box here and we have a lot of growing up to do.
Very interesting video, thank you! The chair that Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in is on display at the Henry Ford Museum. I highly recommend visiting if you have the chance!
I've always wanted to visit the Henry Ford Museum and the Greenfield Village complex that's adjacent to it ever since I was a boy living in Yonkers NY. (I'm 62 now) My parents and sister weren't too interested in that, because they preferred to spend their summer vacations in Florida (we occasionally went to other places, but most of our vacations were in the Sunshine State), which is where we moved to in 1989. (My dad passed away in 2003, my mom died in 2013, and my sister passed on in 2015) I still would like to see the Ford Museum and the village, but I'm on disability now, and I receive a check for $841.00 per month. Then, I have to pay my landlord $550.00 for the monthly rent, plus $30.00 for my cellphone, since it's in his Metro PCS account, and that leaves me with $261.00. That's not much to finance a vacation, especially if one is going the state of Michigan, which is hundreds of miles away from Florida. There are many other places around the country (and a few around the world) I'd like to visit someday, but I guess that's impossible now.
Thanks for using black American. Seriously, this is one of the few channels that got it right. Where did the label "African-American" start? It's a polarizing subject.
Great video! But, I noticed a minor error in the description. It says Lincoln was shot on April 15th. That isn't true. He was shot on the 14th and died the next morning on the 15th.
Why is America so dominated by anti responsibility. Whether here, Katrina or Covid, the US seems so impotent and weak when it comes time to doing the necessary thing.
Because helping people has no monetary gain. If no money is involved then that's that. It's not about sides or naritives it's about money and how much either side can make
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is one of those, what I refer to as a DeLorean moment, a point in history that I'd try to change if I had a time machine. Lincoln's personal guard had left his post at Ford's Theater that night, allowing Booth access to the VIP box. Interesting to speculate how Reconstruction might've developed if Lincoln had lived to supervise it.
People have noted that if it was a purely physical encounter he would have easily gotten the best of Booth. Lincoln had recently demonstrated on a Navy ship his ability to hold an ax out horizontal by his wrist.
Imo I think pretty much the majority working under Lincoln were either Southern sympathizers or were paid off by the South and that made it easier for Lincoln to get assassinated. I mean it's easier for the enemy to get you when even your own men are against you.
@@Off-with-a-bang I've never heard or seen anything that suggested Lincoln's murder was an inside job. Booth had his conspirators but they were meant to kill other high ranking politicians. Vice President Andrew Johnson was a Tennessee Democrat and he was also targeted by Booth's people that night. In the case of Lincoln's bodyguard at the theater, most people consider his negligence to be just that, negligence.
In some respect we have come a long way.. in others, we haven't gone that far. We've learned a lot, but we still have a lot to learn. I pray we never forget the mistakes and lessons learned from our past.. and may it NEVER EVER happen again!
I have two thoughts about Reconstruction: 1) In an alternate universe where Lincoln lived, it would've gone a lot better for the ex-slaves. 2) Reconstruction ended far too early. It shouldn't have ended until the South was actually brought to heel and made to follow federal law. Any state that tried to implement Black Codes should've been militarily re-occupied until they corrected their behavior. It would've been preferable to have another civil war in 1876 than to put up with the South's behavior.
My family came from a North Welsh Village, speaking the Welsh language, and ended up living in Virginia, Mississippi, then Kentucky. The grandson of the Welsh immigrant fought for the Union to end slavery, and put down Confederate Guerilla warfare. Many of the young Confederate soldiers were only protecting their home land, or had been forcibly conscripted to fight, even though they themselves were poor, and had no slaves. I hate when people say that most Confederate soldiers believed in Slavery. The surviving letters from the soldiers show that many disapproved of the institution. It was rich old men who needed slavery. Mt great 3x Grandfather probably would have been a Confederate had the family never left Mississippi. Many soldiers deserted one side then signed up for the other, under a different name. Don't judge descendants of either side as good or bad: everyone was just surviving
I did for sure. I knew Andrew Johnson was a bad president but didn't know the details. Being from North Carolina, I just hope that most people don't view the South, during the present day, as a dystopia to avoid and make assumptions about.
Except for that it cites slavery as the basis for the civil war, which it wasn't. It was the morality clause needed to consolidate the waning power in the north. I think that's more than apparent in the lack of reconstruction in the post war south. Saying the civil war was fought over slavery is like saying desert storm was fought solely over Iraq invading Kuwait or that WW2 was fought to liberate the Jews.
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This was a good analysis without prejudice of opinion Left or Right idealogy. History is valuable and needs review constantly to understand what happened and where we are today.
Nice summary but to be completly objective I thought you should have mentioned that from 1865 to 1876 the south was under Marshall Law and split into 5 military districts in which men had to have their oath of aligiance on them at all times and they were not allowed to own pistols or rifles, only shotguns with bidshot only for hunting game. And those carpet baggers were not nice people moving to the south to create a new middle class. They were opportunitsts trying to obtain land and property by paying the property taxes and hoping to easily gain the property if the owners could not make the payment in November.
If you haven't done it already, please do one on the "Buffalo Soldiers" in regards to the Native American Wars. Also about how some Native tribes (Seminoles), took in and intermarriaged with escaped slaves.
You failed to mention that certain southern states recently paid off their debt from the civil war and thus continuing the poverty of all people living in those states even to today.
Even when you could debts from the Civil War, southern states still receive on average twice as much money from the Fed as they give. How exactly are they keeping you in poverty when the Federal Government is paying for all of your trailer park welfare?
@@matthewcapobianco9332 First of all the South gets more more money because of farming and well we all need to eat . Second the South is like every other part of the country. We’ve been modernized since the 70’s.
there is a serious lack of Fredrick douglas or any other black politican, and this also has a serious lack of sheer violence that was blacks suffered during reconstruction.
10:15 That's a photo of Sara Forbes Bonetta who was Queen Victoria's Goddaughter. She was never a slave in the U.S. She lived a quite exciting life. You should do a Weird History episode on her.
Here’s a topic I think Weird History should cover: What a typical day was like in Leningrad during the 900-day siege of that city during WWII.
Yes!
Yes I’d like to see that
Or what a typical day was like in 2020
I sense a deadline for an oddly specific term paper
@@Socc3rchic88 LOL! I *wish* WH was around when I was in college!
Between Lincoln's death and Johnson's failure at Reconstruction the South has been hurting for years. Mostly the rich have stayed "rich" and the poor of both races have been kept poor
Are the rich of both races too though?
@@alastairward2774 ...YEP...there WERE 'black' plantation owners too!!
@@cliffordpearsonjr.9748 Significant part of this history?
@@alastairward2774 I'm guessing you don't live in the south, but there are considerably more wealthy black people in the Southern major metros than the Northern ones.
@@SandfordSmythe there were 140 black slave owners in South Carolina alone. And, in fact, the richest slaveowner there was a black man..
Suggestion: What was life like during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Oooo, this sounds fire
been wanting this one forever
Yessss
....a friend of mine, in college, was from white harlem, in Chicago.......go figure...
Long story short: If it wasn't for Johnson catering more to the former slave owners, Reconstruction might have actually been effective.
And jim crow laws wouldn't have been created
The South was pretty much against the blacks having much progress. You can't change basic beliefs at the point of a gun.
and the lesson that you can't compromise with evil wasn't learned
That's a very wrong assumption of the entire situation. Reconstruction went fine, but it didnt involve embarrassing and looting the south like the north wanted. Johnson was impeached for firing a cabinet member, not for reconstruction stuff.
not could have, it would have been effective for my ancestors and I
Suggestion: What was life like for African Americans who migrated to the North after the Civil War?
still racist and unjust to blacks as the south. they just tried to hide it better.
Or before the war and photo ID
Look at Detroit and you’ll find most of the answer you’re looking for
@@jiveassturkey8849 lol
The great migration did not begin until quite awhile after the war. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Connecticut after World War Two to visit relatives. He wrote to his mother that he went to Honiss’ Seafood Restaurant and was waited on.
I’d like to hear about the history of, “The Blues.”
Yesssss
I think this story IS the history of the Blues.
That is a video I wouldn’t watch
Robert Johnson and the Crossroads
@@braden-ft8ti That’s a great story! I was thinking the same thing.
Sounds like a time period I would not like to visit
+ Look around, we are there now. Biden isn't gonna do this country anything to make it better at all....
Why
@@marvinheemeyer6660 Except for not putting white supremacy on a public platform and catering to Oligarchs. Back to Presidents in the background, where they belong.
@@marvinheemeyer6660
Biden serves the same corporate masters that Republicans serve.
he just won't say the quiet parts out loud.
@dandagod official
with good reason!
99% of them are on the corporate teat.
we pay taxes and they give all of it to billionaires/corporations, who don't even need it.
Actually a good number of slaves was skilled workers. You had carpenters, blacksmiths, dress makers. Not all slaves just had domestic or field jobs.
Right. But you know racism slowed most of that down with Black Codes
@Shay Do you mean after they were purchased from other Africans, and brought to the Middle East, South America, and North America it was impossible for them to run away, almost the same way they couldn't run away from those who sold, and enslaved them in the first place in Africa where they were bought, and sold by Africans to other Africans
@Shay So all the Asians who came to North America were ignorant of Ox teams, and rice cultivation
@Shay Every continent has always had some sort of thriving economy as peoples learned agriculture, and stopped being nomadic. I have heard of the Moors, and to say the Moors were black way over simplifies who they were, considering a large portion not only originated in Western Africa, but Northern Africa, and the Middle East places like Morocco, Algeria, Yemen, Syria etc. Also explains why they would conquer places like Malta, Sicily, Spain, and other parts of the Mediterranean. Rice production in North America began in the mid 19th century, which is also the time where large migrations from Asia to North America began. My comment was made because you made it sound like only peoples from Africa knew how to cultivate, and grow rice. Did you know more African slaves were taken to the Middle East than North America, and the reason there are far less decedents in the Middle East today is because a vast majority were immediately castrated?
Urban slaves often were very skilled.
Another thing I like about this channel is the fact that when you do topics like this MOST people take it for what it is....HISTORY.
History that is a big window into the reasons of TODAY. Don’t get it twisted.
No it's not because if history reflected today we as black people would not be killing each other like me do today
75% of parents are in single households with the numbers in 1930s being 85% married
@@naturaldisaster2 that explain the shots in brothers back running from cops?? PLEASE. It may be a part but damn. It’s the system.
@@MatiasGeraldoThe2nd lol police killings of blacks happens very rare but chicago just had several shootings over the last few days which were black on black....
It’s always sobering to think about how much struggle my ancestors had to go through for me to be where I am today. All because of fear and hate of black people in the US.
I feel like those people in the South during Reconstruction Era failed to see that everyone is actually one race, the human race, and that we should love all other humans equally. Those slave owners were blinded by money and lack of morals and they didn’t see that.
technically, humans aren't divided by race, only other non human animals
@@maximilianolimamoreira5002 you aren't talking about how society and the government in its dealings and policies see humans, you're talking about nature. not really poignant when a certain group of humans with a certain complexion entered a country with humans of a different complexion and proceeded to turn them into property and experiments.
To be specific, "Southern US states". The white southerners tried to force the United States to keep slavery.
“You are the hope and dream of the slave…”
this is the type of things they should be teaching in AP US History and normal history classes. i never knew anything was like this. i only thought it got as bad as the Jim Crow Laws and segregation.. but this is far worse and corrupt.
This info isn't taught in AP US history because much is false or misleading. The vast majority of antebellum southern whites were poor and did not own slaves. Highly unlikely most wealthy white southern women were forced to scrub floors, etc. after the war ended. Most whites who fought/died for the confederacy owned little to no land and certainly no slaves. Very few wealthy whites even fought on either side! Not sure what Weird History means by "resentment". And not all areas in the south were horrible for black people right after the end of the war. Until the 1870's many southern states had republican elected officials and remained firmly under union control. My ears were bleeding by minute 7.
P.S. For firsthand insight into a poor white southerner's experience during/after the war I recommend reading "Co Aytch" by Sam Watkins. Very readable and referenced many times in Ken Burns' The Civil War documentary: www.amazon.com/Company-Aytch-Classic-Memoir-Civil/dp/0452281245
@@flashstar99 What about it specifically is so misleading, because although I'm sure poor white southerners didn't have it so easy and were indeed used as pawns for the confederacy, the main point of the video is that WHITE AMERICANS DID NOT HAVE IT (AND NEVER HAVE HAD IT) AS BAD AS BLACK AMERICANS!! Both groups were poor and struggling, but seriously ignoring how much more so one group was disenfranchised is nothing short of willful ignorance.
Did you not hear the part about being TAXED for holding any occupation other than agrarian (that means having to pay extra for being a citizen that would actually contribute greatly to society, when you've already come from nothing), or the part about being JAILED AND WORKED IN CONVICT LEASING for not being employed at all (Vagrancy)? And that's just the tip of the iceberg. What part of SLAVERY are you not understanding? Women and children were raped, yet it was legal. Families were ripped apart, yet it was legal. HUMANS were tortured and treated as animals, yet it legal.
Plus, with all due acknowledgement of the struggles and grit of those poor white southerners, the fact is that they were still so racist and segregationist and white supremacist in their ideology. They could have voted for progress and integration, but the vast majority for generations chose to vote for keeping life for black americans as difficult and as miserable as possible. There is no refuting this. They chose to became the KKK and chose to terrorize black americans from their constitutional rights, let alone a decent livelihood. They chose to be vicious and hostile to their black counterparts in the military in both WW1 and WW2, and Korea and Vietnam, etc (discrimination from southerners and northerners, by the way). Guess which states made sure to send segregationists to congress; members who would, during the great depression, make certain that black americans were as excluded from new deal programs as much as possible. DING DING DING, southern states again.
You might be one of those gullible enough to believe that after slavery black people just became lazy welfare leeches....and you couldn't be more wrong. Not being allowed to patent innovations stymied a lot of black entrepreneurship. Ironically some envious whites terrorized and destroyed blacks who they deemed "too successful." The Tulsa, Oklahoma Massacre (which saw innocent black women and children assaulted as well) was a shining example of what black people could and have built on their own, without the government, yet racist whites and the racist government and racist media colluded to decimate, as soon as they felt they had an excuse to do so (war planes dropped firebombs, for heck's sake).
What's really misleading how little of the history is taught. It's really a tragedy that so much of this painful history is not taught. The fact that the confederacy or even just the antebellum south could be romanticized by anyone is nauseating. And you wonder about the problems in black america to this day. The thing is, black americans still live with the scars of this legacy to this day. Any criticism you can bring yourself to muster against black americans can be attributed to this history that has not yet been taught enough, let alone adequately rectified (slavery and EVERYTHING that happened during it, redlining, convict leasing, predatory lending, gentrification, black face and other disgusting caricatures of our God-given appearances [making us and other races hate our lips, our hair, etc], generational poverty, racial profiling, many a false accusation, police brutality, the lack of credit we get for our contributions to science and technology, the lack of credit we get for our contributions what is considered uniquely american culture, cuisine and music and so forth, etc). Yeah, it's nice to learn about how america saved the world at some points in history, but not teaching about america's evils is a disservice and a disgrace (though I know america isn't the only nation that sugarcoats its history). Regardless of whatever nation we speak of, it may try to omit its evils from history, but the scars cannot be ignored so easily.
@@ah_libra I referenced a few of the misleading or false items in my first comment. The video is titled "what the south was like during reconstruction". Reconstruction ended around 1877. I can't find evidence of several of the claims or those things occurred after reconstruction ended. It also bothers me that the video inaccurately aggrandizes the historic impact of wealthy southern whites at the expense of the poor whites.
Racism and slavery (horrible things) were prevalent in the north and south until the middle of the civil war. Many (often poor) southerners did not fight to protect slavery. They often fought for their towns, families, individual liberties, etc. or they were drafted. About 1/4 of the southern white male population of fighting age died during the war. 200,000 were maimed and received little/no welfare. Many white northern soldiers (also often drafted) supported slavery, especially before the emancipation proclamation. Read the primary sources. I've posted a link to an excellent one above. Also recommend reading "All for the Union" by Elisha Hunt Rhodes.
Much white-owned land in the south was redistributed through high state taxes, etc.
The truth is often messy. IMO it's demeaning and disrespectful to blacks (and whites) to promote an inaccurate account of history that obscures, misleads, and improperly recounts important events.
@@flashstar99 I understand. Some may not like that I agree with this response, but I do. And I apologize for seeming so hostile. Yes, history and the truth can be messy. And there's so much of it that is always omitted or rewritten. I recently learned about Jones County, Mississippi and was elated by the unity that could exist between black and whites in that place and time.
I also remember when I first learned about racism in the northern states (something that is sugarcoated to a criminal degree...Malcolm X's father for example was more or less murdered by racists in Michigan, though revisionist history reports it as "an accident" and casts X as "an extremist" without giving any context to his experiences and why he held certain views). Admittedly, so many don't even care about the history, at least until something big happens and things metaphorically (and sometimes physically) come to blows.
It's no fun to be the kid that has to do that history report, but learning and knowing the history is important. We can forgive, but we ought not forget; be it slavery, segregation, 9/11, the holocaust, etc. I certainly don't want to be the one to attribute any more blame than necessary; there's a lot of misplaced anger out there [from all sides] due to so many people not knowing all these little details. A black person may cite this brutal history as justification to assault a white person who may not be the least bit racist for example (or vice versa), and that's something that I cannot condone; a manifestation of misplaced anger. I have been that person once before, and I regret it. Fortunately, I wouldn't actually assault anyone, rather I just held suspicions.
Also, while a platform like TH-cam may not always have perfect content, it certainly makes it easier for some people to absorb the information. It's at least a good start for one's own deeper research. Thank you for your eloquent response and your understanding (what we all need to do) and for not being too angry at me. I can't speak for any future commenters, however. I'm thankful that you understand, as many patriots often do not and unfortunately cast black americans as being entirely at fault for all the inequities that they still face to this day, or they often try to deflect from the issues by bringing up the World Wars as though that somehow minimizes the magnitude of slavery and the jim crow era. Heck, Hitler got some of his ideas from the way america treated black americans. Both sides give hostility and criticism, but both sides need understanding, empathy and inclusion much more so.
@@ah_libra I replied to your comment earlier but it somehow disappeared. Just wanted to point out that anyone (not you) suggesting that poor southerners were not interested in preserving slavery is spouting untruths. To the contrary, most of them were invested, at the least, because slavery was not just a financial situation whereupon the wealthy had free labor. What you might think of as middle class, and then the actual poorer class, relied on slavery in many ways. (One way off the top of my head was the employment of overseers, which usually were poor white men.) But the biggest issue was white supremacy. The poorest white southerner felt better about himself because at least he wasn't Black. They were invested in maintaining that position. And when the war was over and the demonic cause was lost, poor whites were then invested in Jim Crow because it gave them another leg to stand on, suggesting their superiority to Black people. The wealthy were as they often are now, not without blood on their hands. However, when you examine who was actually doing the lynching and burning of Black neighborhoods, and later, who was beating civil rights workers, as well as shooting and bombing, it wasn't usually the wealthy, but the poor. Omitting the part that white supremacy played in southerners fighting for the Confederacy is disingenuous.
If it wasn't for Andrew Johnson, the 90's Timeline Series would be well underway by now. He did everything in his power to undermine it. True story.
What is the 90s timeline?
@@Greatmount
MSM induced pro-Clinton propaganda.
one of the iniquity workers who claims "Democrat = Left"
Typical Democrat
@@Greatmount It's a series produced by this channel. They did the 80s late last year and we've been patiently waiting for the 90s series to start. They put out the trailer for it yesterday. ;)
Andrew Jackson not johnson
Slaves: working condition aren't good here, we don't get paid, you treat us like animals, we're leaving.
Planters: **surprised pikachu face** ヽ(°〇°)ﾉ
Actually kind of a wrong characterization of the sentiments of slave owners
@@codylee729 It would have been more of an "Angry Dio Face" Am I right?
Plantation owners: "If i can't whip black people, I might as well whip Yankees!"
Good video, and what a sad point in our nation’s history. Johnson was one of the worst presidents we’ve had. He squander such a great opportunity. Makes you ponder just how different America would be today had Lincoln lived to implement his intended reunification and reconstruction.
Yes. Johnson may have wanted to further Lincoln's goal of re-uniting the country without recrimination, but he sure didn't have Lincoln's ability.
It was Abraham Lincoln's intension
To unite us without cruel contention.
But after Abe died
Although Johnson tried.
What ensued was unbridled dissention!
------------Limerick Rex
ya'll say slavery built America have y'all looked at the self I would much rather be up north y'all are talking about still hasn't been reconstructed? Y'all niggars want to act like you're so f****** special guess what I am not any more special than you and you are not any more special than me
Lincoln wanted to send all negroes to Nicaragua. Basically on a Trail of Tears death walk.
I know, and that's the reason Lincoln was murdered for being a exemplary great president. What kind of justice is that!!
@@limerickrex3354that's the silliest thing I've ever read. If the tyrant hadn't had an extra hole introduced to his head it would have been far worse. Johnson wasn't hated like Lincoln was. The South would have resisted far harder if Lincon were alive then.
I REQUESTED THIS VIDEO A FEW WEEKS AGO!! thanks weird history!!
Thanks for the request. ☺️
My ancestors on both my maternal and paternal sides lived through emancipation and reconstruction. I'm extremely fortunate that in both cases, neither were doomed to sharecropping. Reconstruction was a time of immense opportunity for freed men but also horrifying racism, especially once reconstruction ended in 1877. How your ancestors faired depending a lot on how their former slavers treated former slaves, and quite a bit of luck. In both of my family sides, they were fortunate to get educations at the brand new historically black colleges nearby which set the stage of entering and never leaving the small but burgeoning black middle class. But even with degrees (undergrade and grad), money, property, etc, racism was horrible and omnipresent. My grandmother (whose father worked for Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute) always told me the stories of when the Klan marched through Tuskegee in the 1920s after dark with costumes, torches, guns....the whole package. Our house was right across was the main entrance to campus so all this happened right at their front door. She was literally told that it might be their last night on earth. Relatives and neighbors would perch in the trees with rifles in case shots were fired. Lynchings were common. And people wonder why as a people, we African Americans don't forget events like this.
My family lived thru that period. They were poor white farmers, and my great- grandmother was terrified of black MEN who roamed the back woods at night where they lived and broke in to their house to steal stuff. One black man wanted her gun and she told him that she didn't have one. His reply was, "Iz aint gwine hurt nobody, Iz jes gwine go down der and kill me a couple N__gg--rs"....TRUE STORY.
My father saw a lynching in the 1930's. He never got over the horror.
Thank you for sharing your families powerful story. ❤
It is tragic and more people must be made of aware of what African American folks went through.
There must be a open and honest reconciliation and honest acceptance among Americans
@@jeanninecathcart627 If you're going to be that racist, there's not much point in blanking out the N word. TRUE STORY.
On September 5th, about six months from now, the Weird History channel will have lasted longer than the Confederacy.
God Bless
officially, maybe....but i saw confederate flags at the US Capitol about a month ago.
@@donHooligan youre giving them too much credit!
My dad’s side of the family (white) are from Alabama from as far back as our familial recorded history extends (we have letters and other documentation dating back to the Civil War, or even a little before). My family members were (and are) documented coal miners and subsistence farmers to the beginning of our recorded history. My grandparents grew up in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. I recently asked my granny what she remembered about that time and if she witnessed or was privy to any of the civil rights activities ongoing throughout those years in Alabama. She said (paraphrasing), “We were too darn poor to be mean to each other or do any of that protesting! Black, white, we were all working and just trying to survive!”
Interesting I like like to hear more! That’s first hand knowledge omg please share.
She lied to you through her teeth. 😂😂😂😂 Do you think people were "too poor" to ascribe to white supremacy? 🙄🙄🙄🤦🏾🤦🏾🤦🏾😂😂😂
Remember that line in "Song of the South" about being too poor to know there was a Depression?
Why would anyone give this a thumbs down? Must be those old, salty plantation owners again.
people that know the real history....
@@DerpyDo how would that real history differ?
@@fionafiona1146 lol don't even bother. You ask these people to cite any misinformation, and they just remain vague and faux-enlightened. It's the QAnon way
Wait, what is the REAL history? This video is pretty accurate of the REAL history.
Democrats are still bitter republicans took their slaves away! Now democrats want to enslave everyone with socialism 😫
His narration is 💯
Land redistribution to former slaves would have done so much justice. Johnson's inaction and injustice polices are felt to this very day
There was uncultivated land given to former slaves as housing. There were also settlements in remote parts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida that were created for former slaves.
Redistributions as in give them the slave owners land? That would be like enslaving the enslavers. It makes sense in a way although I wouldnt choose that route if I was trying to hold the union together and keep the country happy.
@@GuyFromTheSouth
Slave owner would still have had some of his land, but the extreme too much amount of extra land he would be holding would be taken away & redistributed among the slaves who had nothing.
They fought & won a bloody war in which over 300k northerners died to hold the Union together, what's again with pandering to these former slaver owners? Keeping bunch of former slave owners happy doesn't result in keeping the country happy, since they make up a few percentage of population. Leaders at the time especially Johnson had a chance to set things straight, they blew it.
A video on Wendell Scott the first black guy to win a Nascar race. He lived in Danville Virgina. The last capital of the confederation. My dad would go over and watch / help with his race car cause he lived like 5 blocks from him when he was a kid.
I was name after him ows
He won that race and then was cheated out of it. His trophy & earnings were awarded to Allison who was one of the biggest racist men of that era. It's disgusting to be of European ethnicity even to this day.
"Abraham Lincoln was gunned down" kind of makes it sound like he was with Pac and Suge on the strip in Vegas
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He with blood
Only the realest
I mean..he kinda was. He Tupac. Instead of a fight, it was a play and yeah.
Not till Lin-Manuel Miranda gets the telling.
**Southern economy tanks after slaves were freed**
Some people today: "America wasn't built off of slavery!"
I mean 11 slave states that only produce food and cotton versus 21 free states cranking out inventions, which ones do you think built America? They could have stayed seceded and slavery would have built them nothing but more farms, the south’s economy is not what built America
@@ericlikeshalo The initial economies of the northern states were based off of slavery; their access to resources and trade, as well as their longer length of time in the New World as former colonies compared to their much younger southern counterparts (upon whom they had no problem relying for food and raw resources) allowed them to progress to the point where they could be more technologically advanced compared to the South by 1861. But they started as slave-based agrarian economies.
@@Dyundu slavery had been abolished in the north by 1804 and had started being abolished in 1774 before we were even our own country
The South in 1860 was rooted in a pre-capitalistic feudal economy that had little industry, few middle class, and few number of towns with their varied trades and services. It was anti-capitalist and proudly spoke of its protection of the weak under its feudal system as opposed to the capitalist's exploitation of the workers. Virginia at the time of the Revolution was an important powerful state in the US, and it just declined over the years as the rest of the US moved into the Industrial Revolution.
Idiot
Those pampered wives having to perform menial house chores sure would have been a sight to see. 🤔🧐💯
Right😂
No diffrent than today's modern woman. Can't cook nor clean but they can show you how they got that ring... Cardi b 2020
Yeah where they at today??? Luckily my wife loves being home with the children. It's hard to find a wonderful lady nowadays
@@bye92 um no wonderful lady’s don’t have to sit home all they taking care of kids they can be independent and have kids and have a job🙄🖐🏾 and be a rapper.
@@bye92 As long as its her choice to do that and the family have means to accommodate it. That doesn't make her a wonderful lady, but selfless one, able to put her desires aside for others. I sure wouldn't want that of a wife, but to each his/her own.
Been waiting for this one
Just love your narrative voice!!! It’s perfect balance of tone and volume 🍿
You can either stay up all day listening or fall fast asleep either one is OK with me!
Idea - the history of Florida, like going from Spanish colony to somehow part of the US and how Southern economy impacted those swamps... just totally confused on the timeline of this. In all seriousness; thanks!
Cheddar just a good one on the Florida land boom
Hey Shirley,
Do you know any Palomino’s from Southern California?
Prepare to get it from a Left-wing perspective.
Sorry there is no history for Florida. DiSantis banned all those books!
Ulysses Grant was still General of the Armies during Johnson’s term and did as much as he could to protect ex-slaves via Federal troops. He was President from 1869-1877. He made significant progress via Reconstruction durning those years. By the end of his second term the nation was tired of Reconstruction and many of its provisions were not continued by Rutherford B. Hayes and the succeeding Congress. Southern whites took full advantage and were mostly unfettered in their abuse of Black people. That’s when life really became bad if you were Black.
And yet protesters took down a bust of Grant, the only president outside of Lincoln that actually tried to help black people in that time period.
Shows they don't know much about history and why it's important to learn it. 🤷♀️
@@briannaaaron6804 they didn’t take it down because of his relationship with black people they took his down along with Columbus and Junipero Serra due to their awful treatment of native Americans. Natives experienced severe cultural genocide under Grant. Look up the war against Lakota people.
They knew their history.
@@mesij6798 Actually, it partially did.
It was done on Juneteenth, and and it was because he supposedly owned one slave that he freed long before the Civil War.
And his wife came from a slave owning family.
However, Grant was the leading general of the Union army who got General Lee to surrender at Appomattox Court House, and when he became president he passed the 15th Amendment and prosecuted the KKK.
He also tried to push Native Americans as equal citizens, but you had a lot of generals ignore him and they did what they wanted.
I'm not saying he was effective in helping Native Americans, but I am trying to say he tried to mend fences.
@@briannaaaron6804 So essentially you knew why they took down the bust you just wanted to try and make it look like they didn’t know their history...I can’t imagine why you’d do that🧐...
Anyways no Grant did not try to mend fences with Native Americans by pushing them to be “equal” you mean pushing them to reservations and killing those who didn’t comply. He treated them terribly.
It’s history there’s no need to justify it. y’all need to accept that the people you guys tend to glorify or defend weren’t worth defending.
@@mesij6798 I'm not trying to do anything.
I'm just stating facts. He wasn't perfect, but he did try to help people.
That is fact, plain and simple. 🙄
Lincoln death destroyed all the progress. He would have been ashamed by jim crow laws
he would have did it to
@@RUN_IT_UP_ nah you didn't watched the video? Andrew didn't properly implemented reconstruction. That's why blacks weren't allowed to vote cause he didn't brought them under federalism which Lincoln would have done. This video is saying it😅
@@RUN_IT_UP_ Try english. It's the language we use the most.
Lincoln was a racist, freeing slaves was a convenient excuse to make it okay for him to kill most of the country. You all bought it like a mark
@@alanhyt79 The person above you agrees with you, but has far worse english, criticize them too.
So you're telling me Andrew Johnson sucked.
He did indeed. Stirred up the cauldron of division, and corruption all the more. Lincoln wanted to and did extend a hand of welcome. It was not to be.
He was never intended to do anything. Lincoln only chose him as VP because he was the only Southern Senator who didn't resign, so it was a show of loyalty to the Union overall to win votes for Lincoln's reelection. And once that was done, Johnson was just supposed to sit quietly behind Lincoln for the next four years. He was actually targeted for assassination the same night as Lincoln, but where Booth succeeded and the guy who targeted Secretary of State Steward at least managed to attack him, Johnson's guy chickened out and spent the night drinking.
Alot like Joe Biden ! Undid all the good works Trump started !
Duh 🙄
@@walterjack7136 and those “good” works were.........?
I'd like a Weird History video on the hardships Native Americans went through. History isn't all happiness and freedom,it's also grim,cruel and unfair but still fascinating to learn.
they were slave owners
That history is one-sided to favoring the Native Americans"...covering up their barbarity. They were experts in terrorism and methods of torture. Guilt complexed WHITE LIBERALS are writing our history all by themselves. But I'll bet not a single Native American wants to go back to his stick house and primitive lifestyle.
Yeah he should do a video on the Five Civilized Tribes.
3:26 my cousin graduated from Hampton with a doctorate in pharmacology and I was just accepted and am so excited to go #HBCUProud
Great episode once again! An episode on confederate money and other US currencies would be interesting to watch. Thanks!
Reconstruction also mandated that anyone having served in the confederate army could exercise the right to vote. Since the vast number of white men served were not able to vote for years. This did not result in reconciliation with whites and blacks, just the opposite occurred.
I'd like to hear about the black inventers in history. And the struggle of black people in the military through history.
Could you maybe make a video on the equipment used in the civil war?
He will find the wikipedia page and get right on it!
@@m.j.e.5245 lmao
@@m.j.e.5245 I don’t get it?
Andrew Johnson is so unpopular, someone tried to correct me by saying “you mean Andrew Jackson, right?”.
They were both complete ray cyst a$’swhoals.
@@Skyprince27 try english next time boy.
@@TheBarca1889
If I spelled those two words correctly TH-cam with auto delete them.
@@Skyprince27 Yes it shadowbans your comment. It will show you that your comment was posted just fine but if you leave and come back it will not be there. I don't even know if this comment will go through because of the word shadowban.
@@Xpwnxage
It did.
Just before I press post, I always copy the post to Notes, close the YT app, reopen it and call up the same thread. If the post is not there, I copy-paste the post back in and then putz around with the spelling of contentious words until it will go through. Sometimes it takes half an hour to find what the problem actually is. Once I find it, then I store the alternate spelling that does work in a Notes library.
Love your videos! I have never thought or been taught about this period, from an Arkansas public school kid. Many things are glazed over in history in the south.
Your grammar is excellent, from a California public school kid.
Very good video open my mind even more
Its a very short summary missing tons of nuance.
I can't believe some of the shit they got away with by passing some of those laws. Arrested n sent work back on a plantation? Wtf
Follow the money....
Looks like the actual consequence of the war was to turn slavery from a controversial issue to a crime. To effectuate the idea that it had disappeared when in reality the chains went away physically, but not literally. Blacks - and now whites - were still very much enslaved, moreso now to the debt they had accrued simply by, well living. And the rest is history, of course, as we are all now debt slaves since the day we're born. One is encouraged to take on credit and loans from as early an age as possible and is already tied into the system via the debt of their ancestors. The only 'free' people on earth are those that still live an indigenous lifestyle, which is why it was so wholly and utterly attacked through colonial and imperial times to turn all those people into more worker bees. All the puppet masters really want is 'obedient workers'. People who work their entire lives to pay their taxes, rent or mortgage, and maybe send their kids to college if they're especially self-sacrificing, and hopefully have enough to feed themselves at the end of the day. The bondage never went anywhere they just removed the physical chains and replaced them with invisible ones; existentially, slavery has increased to never-before-seen levels on this planet and virtually everyone is a victim of it, with the 'owners' being so rich as to control the narrative, laws, and have the ability to simply print their way out of any situation with money as to avoid any consequences and they have further entrenched their position with the increasing takeover of all world markets, resources and political office.
It's funny to me whenever people think of this war as something nobly fought to liberate their fellow man. The true goal and result was quite the opposite. But the powers have a dark sense of humour like that, they often play such jokes at the expense of all subjugated serfs as they gradually move ever closer to the achievement of their ultimate goal
They are doing it still today.Passing BS laws when they feel like it? Laws to do with voting machines and old laws that 'suddenly' don't fit their agendas? NOTHING has changed.America is STILL a bigot and racist filled country? "Certain politicians" seemed to make is acceptable to come out and be loud and proud. It is a disgrace. Some politicians spend more time making laws to make it harder to vote than they do bettering the lives of people. They ease gun laws THE SAME WEEK they are sending 'Thought and prayers' to the parents of children slaughtered at their desks??? America has so many problems......2 days ago I rewatched a video I bought in the 1980's called "The Killing Of America".....NOTHING has changed. If anything it is worse since Trump made being a racist OK.He is a disgraceful human.
@@J3diMindTrixit's always been a crime.
I always look forward to my weird history bed time story .
8 seconds in and I'm already thinking to myself, "ah, John Wilkes Booth, the original "model-slash-actor". I love this channel.
So erotic and sensual
😂😂
Thanks for the video! It would be cool to see a video on Henrietta Lacks and the Hela cells and how horribly the medical community treated her and her family after she died. It's literally true that millions of people wouldn't be alive without her contribution.
She didn't do anything.
She was a random raw material that was made worthwhile because of the medical community.
Frankly, she should be more than grateful that she got to help in the extremely small way in which she did and got to be famous because of it.
It could have just been anyone else, she's not special in any way.
It wouldn’t have been anyone else her cells were unique. No Black American should be grateful for any low standard treatment they received under Jim Crow. Who should be grateful are the White corporations that made Billions off her cells
How does someone get "treated...horribly" after they die? The family recently received a "confidential settlement" even though using a person's cells for research without their consent was perfectly legal in 1951.
The 19th century in America has always been my favorite period of history bcuz it shows how we grew into the nation we became. Sort of the adolescence of the country. Good video.
I think we are still in our adolescence as a country. In Europe they have churches buildings that are 1,000 years old. We are still fresh out of the box here and we have a lot of growing up to do.
We are still a young country
PLEASE MAKE A VİDEO ABOUT MENTAL AND PYHSİCAL DİSEASES OF HİSTORİCAL FİGURES I love your channel
Wow...so many terrible things were done, throughout history. People suck
Power hungry politicians suck
@@patriciablue2739 most definitely
What went wrong with reconstruction is Johnson wasn't the second president to be assasinated.
Very interesting video, thank you! The chair that Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in is on display at the Henry Ford Museum. I highly recommend visiting if you have the chance!
I've always wanted to visit the Henry Ford Museum and the Greenfield Village complex that's adjacent to it ever since I was a boy living in Yonkers NY. (I'm 62 now) My parents and sister weren't too interested in that, because they preferred to spend their summer vacations in Florida (we occasionally went to other places, but most of our vacations were in the Sunshine State), which is where we moved to in 1989.
(My dad passed away in 2003, my mom died in 2013, and my sister passed on in 2015)
I still would like to see the Ford Museum and the village, but I'm on disability now, and I receive a check for $841.00 per month. Then, I have to pay my landlord $550.00 for the monthly rent, plus $30.00 for my cellphone, since it's in his Metro PCS account, and that leaves me with $261.00. That's not much to finance a vacation, especially if one is going the state of Michigan, which is hundreds of miles away from Florida.
There are many other places around the country (and a few around the world) I'd like to visit someday, but I guess that's impossible now.
Can we get a nat turner video?
No wonder we have so many Karens: they are still mad about having to work.
It would be great to hear the history of W.E.B. Dubois life and work or about the great life and work of African Americans throughout the Midwest.
Yes!!
Thanks for using black American. Seriously, this is one of the few channels that got it right.
Where did the label "African-American" start? It's a polarizing subject.
Knowing this history nation wide is the key to progress.
All I know is the women’s fashion was killing it 🤷🏼♀️
Killing THEM, more like! So many deaths attributed to oversize skirts and corsets.
My favorite channel to sit & listen to as I relax
The bitcoin bit came out of left field and beaned me right in the head.. Well played.
One small fact not mentioned was that former owners of the enslaved "
Were given "reparations"for the loss of "property"the formally enslaved *
Love this channel, pure FACTS!!! Kee educating!
Facts with sarcasm....my favorite combo!
Now northerners that move to the south just complain that there’s no good pizza there
Hey!!! Where is the 90's video???
Ps: the phone number to order CDs is still not working...
Now the slave owners just call it “prison for profit”. Merica......shame.
Last time I was this early, native Americans had their land with them
Oof 😂😂
@John Elway you played for the Seattle Seahawks
@John Elway Yea, celebrating genocide ... Guess you waiting for the south to rise again too. Dum fuq.
A+ video!
LOVE IT! What a complicated time, it would be hard to know what to do!
Great video! But, I noticed a minor error in the description. It says Lincoln was shot on April 15th. That isn't true. He was shot on the 14th and died the next morning on the 15th.
Why is America so dominated by anti responsibility. Whether here, Katrina or Covid, the US seems so impotent and weak when it comes time to doing the necessary thing.
Real shit right here👍
Because helping people has no monetary gain. If no money is involved then that's that. It's not about sides or naritives it's about money and how much either side can make
Then get the F out, or if you're not American, STFU
There was no Re Construction only a construction to still do the same thing differently.
Very interesting video. RS.
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is one of those, what I refer to as a DeLorean moment, a point in history that I'd try to change if I had a time machine. Lincoln's personal guard had left his post at Ford's Theater that night, allowing Booth access to the VIP box. Interesting to speculate how Reconstruction might've developed if Lincoln had lived to supervise it.
People have noted that if it was a purely physical encounter he would have easily gotten the best of Booth. Lincoln had recently demonstrated on a Navy ship his ability to hold an ax out horizontal by his wrist.
They wanted to do that on Timeless but was told no. Dont mess with history 🤗they were told
Imo I think pretty much the majority working under Lincoln were either Southern sympathizers or were paid off by the South and that made it easier for Lincoln to get assassinated. I mean it's easier for the enemy to get you when even your own men are against you.
@@Off-with-a-bang I've never heard or seen anything that suggested Lincoln's murder was an inside job. Booth had his conspirators but they were meant to kill other high ranking politicians. Vice President Andrew Johnson was a Tennessee Democrat and he was also targeted by Booth's people that night. In the case of Lincoln's bodyguard at the theater, most people consider his negligence to be just that, negligence.
In some respect we have come a long way.. in others, we haven't gone that far. We've learned a lot, but we still have a lot to learn. I pray we never forget the mistakes and lessons learned from our past.. and may it NEVER EVER happen again!
I have two thoughts about Reconstruction:
1) In an alternate universe where Lincoln lived, it would've gone a lot better for the ex-slaves.
2) Reconstruction ended far too early. It shouldn't have ended until the South was actually brought to heel and made to follow federal law. Any state that tried to implement Black Codes should've been militarily re-occupied until they corrected their behavior.
It would've been preferable to have another civil war in 1876 than to put up with the South's behavior.
He had a plan to get rid of them from the country altogether.
My family came from a North Welsh Village, speaking the Welsh language, and ended up living in Virginia, Mississippi, then Kentucky. The grandson of the Welsh immigrant fought for the Union to end slavery, and put down Confederate Guerilla warfare. Many of the young Confederate soldiers were only protecting their home land, or had been forcibly conscripted to fight, even though they themselves were poor, and had no slaves. I hate when people say that most Confederate soldiers believed in Slavery. The surviving letters from the soldiers show that many disapproved of the institution. It was rich old men who needed slavery. Mt great 3x Grandfather probably would have been a Confederate had the family never left Mississippi. Many soldiers deserted one side then signed up for the other, under a different name. Don't judge descendants of either side as good or bad: everyone was just surviving
Hey weird history, have you narrated a tv show before? I don’t remember what but I swear I heard your voice narrating a crime show or something
I could totally see that. He sounds like any narrator on like Discovery channel or something.
Im pretty sure this is steven colbert
Priceless!!! Thank u
I hope at least ONE person learned something from this. The story was told in a great manner without bias.
I did for sure. I knew Andrew Johnson was a bad president but didn't know the details. Being from North Carolina, I just hope that most people don't view the South, during the present day, as a dystopia to avoid and make assumptions about.
Except for that it cites slavery as the basis for the civil war, which it wasn't. It was the morality clause needed to consolidate the waning power in the north. I think that's more than apparent in the lack of reconstruction in the post war south. Saying the civil war was fought over slavery is like saying desert storm was fought solely over Iraq invading Kuwait or that WW2 was fought to liberate the Jews.
@@tadjit2932 the south said they were fighting for slavery nice try though
Hearing a lot of similarities between then and now with the lawmakers being able to weasel people back into holes with no escape.
Watched your channel become a little piddly thing to a full-fledged successful/popular TH-cam channel. Congratulations my friend, the success is well earned
This was a good analysis without prejudice of opinion Left or Right idealogy. History is valuable and needs review constantly to understand what happened and where we are today.
And to think, in school we were taught, "yay! The good guys won the war. The end. ☺️" With no regard for the actual history.
And?
@John Elway
do you need a hug, John Elway?
why you such an angry little man?
They could tell you anything was historical and you'd believe it. Gullible
Nice summary but to be completly objective I thought you should have mentioned that from 1865 to 1876 the south was under Marshall Law and split into 5 military districts in which men had to have their oath of aligiance on them at all times and they were not allowed to own pistols or rifles, only shotguns with bidshot only for hunting game. And those carpet baggers were not nice people moving to the south to create a new middle class. They were opportunitsts trying to obtain land and property by paying the property taxes and hoping to easily gain the property if the owners could not make the payment in November.
My great great great grandfather, Oscar Collazo, tried to assassinate Harry Truman. Can you please do a video on it?
You don't hear this history taught in either High School or College. Sad.
I litterally got taught this last year for texas history
If you haven't done it already, please do one on the "Buffalo Soldiers" in regards to the Native American Wars. Also about how some Native tribes (Seminoles), took in and intermarriaged with escaped slaves.
Very sad now blacks are filling up jails and have terrible behavior that is wrecking the sacrifice made to free then. So sad the south will rise again
We're studyin' Amprahime Lincoln in school, my little brother announced at dinner. The 3rd generation since, call him same.
How about some weird history about the dust bowl depression era, Mass migration socio and economic ramifications
The 1986 riots in LA & all over the country. That would be awesome to really learn about & not just what the government wants us to know.
This is legit one of my favorite channels on TH-cam. So many great topics, and I really enjoy the narrator. (no, I am not the narrator haha)
Just goes to show that they have always needed us more than we've ever needed them.
That's why they've never been able to leave us alone.
Sherman should have kept on marching
Long walk off a short pier!😅
He was working his way North to Richmond.
Against the Indians.
Great video!
And yet C.R.T is being dismissed as heresy
Can you do an episode on what western prisons were like? Jails? Why people went to them? How often they were used?
Thank you Colbert, really cool
Can you please make a video about train robbers
You failed to mention that certain southern states recently paid off their debt from the civil war and thus continuing the poverty of all people living in those states even to today.
Hes a liberal idiot, he will tilt this in the mainstream way
Even when you could debts from the Civil War, southern states still receive on average twice as much money from the Fed as they give. How exactly are they keeping you in poverty when the Federal Government is paying for all of your trailer park welfare?
@@matthewcapobianco9332 First of all the South gets more more money because of farming and well we all need to eat . Second the South is like every other part of the country. We’ve been modernized since the 70’s.
Finally another civil war episode
Since we didn't learn from history, we're doomed to repeat it.....sound familiar?
If you try to enslave anyone, you will go to prison.
there is a serious lack of Fredrick douglas or any other black politican, and this also has a serious lack of sheer violence that was blacks suffered during reconstruction.
10:15 That's a photo of Sara Forbes Bonetta who was Queen Victoria's Goddaughter. She was never a slave in the U.S. She lived a quite exciting life. You should do a Weird History episode on her.
Dunno if you’ve made this already but a history of the black panthers would be cool!