Matthew Karp Interview: Abraham Lincoln’s Antislavery Views & Westward Expansion
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- Historian Matthew Karp discusses the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the South’s reaction to Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860, how confederate general States Rights Gist embodied the Antebellum period, and what drove the change towards emancipation during the Civil War.
Matthew Karp is a historian of the U.S. Civil War era and its relationship to the nineteenth-century world. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011 and joined the Princeton faculty in 2013. His first book, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy explores the ways that slavery shaped U.S. foreign relations before the Civil War. In the larger transatlantic struggle over the future of bondage, American slaveholders saw the United States as slavery’s great champion, and harnessed the full power of the growing American state to defend it both at home and abroad. This Vast Southern Empire received the John H. Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association, the James Broussard Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and the Stuart L. Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
The Apple TV+ series "Lincoln's Dilemma," features insights from journalists, educators and scholars, as well as rare archival materials, that offer a more nuanced look into the life of the Great Emancipator. Set against the background of the Civil War, "Lincoln's Dilemma" also gives voice to the narratives of enslaved people, shaping a more complete view of an America divided over issues including economy, race and humanity, and underscoring Lincoln's battle to save the country, no matter the cost. The series is narrated by award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright ("Angels in America") and features the voices of actor Bill Camp ("The Night Of") as Lincoln and Leslie Odom Jr. ("Hamilton") as Frederick Douglas.
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Chapter Markers:
00:00:13 - Slavery in the Mid-19th century
00:02:13 - Westward expansion and slavery
00:05:45 - Politics and public opinion on slavery
00:09:09 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Lincoln’s re-entry into politics
00:16:03 - Lincoln’s 1850s anti slavery views
00:18:36 - Lincoln is a moderate in a radical party
00:22:20 - The South’s reaction to Lincoln’s election in 1860
00:27:50 - The threat of antislavery politics to the South
00:31:26 - What Lincoln was facing as he assumed the presidency
00:35:12 - The gradual acceleration towards the goal of emancipation
00:44:26 - Northern white opinion on Black rights and slavery
00:48:37 - Lincoln’s actions: moral conviction or political circumstances?
00:51:28 - What accelerated Lincoln’s move towards emancipation
00:55:35 - Frederick Douglass’ second meeting with Lincoln
01:01:12 - Slavery in the 1850s economy
01:03:40 - The experience of the enslaved
01:07:46 - Suppression of anti-slavery dissent in the South
01:10:31 - The racialization of slavery in the South
01:11:50 - The significance of Lincoln and the Civil War
Matthew Karp, Historian, Princeton University
Interview Date: November 13, 2020
Interviewed by: Jackie Olive and Barak Goodman
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Absolutely brilliant. Karp brings perspectives to the story that create such synergy with the perspectives of the great Prof. Foner. Crucial to listen to both! Thank you for providing the world with this superlative series of interviews with great historians.
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1. I think Harriet Beecher Stowe and her book changed the opinion about slavery system in the North, mainly at the women readers who had some effect in the families. Uncle Tom's Cabin showed a peacful solution for a step by step abolution, so many people wanted to stop the slavery system spreeding in North after reading this book.
2. The abolutionism was a minority movements from East Pennsylvania, in New England in one of a part of East Ohio about 1830. The mid west states were founded by Southerners from Kentucky, Tenneessee, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and North Carolina. A less part of people arrived from the Central states and a minority arrived from New England between 1800-1830. Ohio got more people from North (So it is undestandable general Grant's family was abolutionist in Ohio. Lincoln family arrived from Kentucky to Indiana and later in Illinois.
In Illinois there was movent to change the state into slave system state only this ended in 1844. The New englander people arrived after 1830 in the Middle West and Eliya Parish Lovejoy fro m New England was killed by proslavery mob in 1837 in illinois in Altona after he was chesed away from St.Louis Missouri.
3. North East migration changed Mid West to be antyslavery states. Missouri (slavery system state) voted Abraham Lincoln with 10% in 1860. Some Southerner originated as Lincoln became antislavery from 1830 to 1860.
4. The United Kingdom abolished the slavery system in 1836 and France in 1848 and the 2 main naval powers lost any main interest about slavery system moreover Canadian possibility started the Undergroundrairoad.
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Good points. Britain 's abolition of the slave TRADE in 1808 was extremely important because of the enormous economic impact.
The percentage of English Quakers and German Amish was much more significant in those days in the northeastern states before the US population boomed with huge immigration of the latter part of the 19thcentury, and was overwhelmingly anti-
Slavery.
I think the Underground Railroad movement also had a much greater effect on Northern political opinion than is generally known. Plenty of racist attitudes existed in the North, BUT most people there were still very much against the institution of slavery. This paradox is not well understood today, but it's crucial to US history.
The invention of the Cotton Gin also.
Not all Southern states forbade Lincoln. 10% of Missoury voted to Lincoln in 1860, as St Louis and a other low slave populated county were won by Lincoln.
In Virginia Lincoln almost won Hanckock county (nowday West Virginia) in 1860. In Delaware Lincoln got high % vote. Maryland and Kentucky had low % Lincoln voters. ETERNAL SHAME FOR THE DEEP SOUTH LINCOLN WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT in 1860. So Nobody knew how many brave people were in the South! I think the result would have been similar to the Kentucky result if the Deep South had not forbade Lincoln from the Ballot.
The "State Rights" meant not only the slavery system alone but a lot of The Southern states forbade the FREE SPEECH! The debate about slavery system was forbiden in a lot of Southern states. The first proslavery constitution also forbade the Free Speech about slavery system in Kansas!