The Plantation South (1960)

Traces the development of the plantation system in the southern United States from its beginning in Virginia to its firm establishment in the deep South of the Antebellum Period. Stress is placed upon the plantation as an agricultural and social unit.
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[@plantationmuscleboy]

Incredible. This is rebelicious!

[@ArcticTemper]

Good little documentary, human but not overbearing as regards emotions.

[@edwardrichardson8254]

Yankee "history" for the mentally challenged at 8:34: "Wealth became a monopoly in the hands of a few planters." It was the other way around, war was started by northeastern industrialists getting protectionist tariffs because they were upset the South was doing all its trade w/ Britain and Europe. The war almost started 30 years earlier for same reason. The Morrill Tariff that finally kicked off the Civil War was to fleece the South by levying (in some cases 65%) taxes on trade w/ Great Britain & Europe for industrial goods and using the tax to fund government works projects in the North - the epitome of Henry Clay's "American System" as adopted by his acolyte and Whig henchman, Abraham Lincoln.
The war killed more Americans (easily) than died in all the wars America has fought combined. Adjusted for today's population it would be around 7 million casualties, it was like atomic war in its devastation.

[@leahunverferth8247]

Forget "Yankee" vs. whatever other kind of history. What you say here is simply not factual. In 1860, slaves were worth about 3.5 billion dollars as property. In today’s dollars that $75 billion. They were worth more than all manufacturing capacity and railroads put together. No wonder they wouldn't even begin to give it up without a fight.
The Morrill tariff did not kick off the Civil War. In fact, it was the result of southern secession. Though it was proposed prior to secession, it never would have passed if the southern states hadn't left.
Taxes absolutely were not the reason for the war. It was slavery - not that Lincoln fought to end slavery (it was not an original war aim). But because he opposed its expansion into Western territory, the South saw that as the first step towards its death and would not tolerate it.

[@jesusahmed2286]

The war was started because the selfish planter aristocrats who dominated the govt felt they were loosing power because of the raise of the Republican Party. Almost every senator from the cotton state made speeches saying that their state would secede if Lincoln was elected
Also the morill tariff bill was passed after many states seceded because it would not pass the senate.
Do some research first before commenting something you have no knowledge of