Campaign in New Hampshire . How can you not like donald trump . John will he help americans live free . From iowa to New Hampshire. Thats our show tonight. Announcer and now john stossel. John the next big president ial primary vote is in New Hampshire tuesday. The New Hampshire state mott tow is live free or die. That sounds libertarian. So will New Hampshire voters pick three loving candidates . Who might win in New Hampshire and who should win . Rich lowry is an editor. National review. And New Hampshire is the live free or die state. If you live free you have might die. If you look at the polling they may have that libertarian motto, but they want to increase spending on education, healthcare, and background checks on guns. They are much more for those establishment conservatives. Thats why you see trump leading in the polls and jeb bush appearing in the polls. Trump has been strong there all along. Well see whether he experiences a downdraft after iowa. But many things you can say
Stephen its get started for today then. This is our first class about reconstruction. I want to first go back and talk about the war. What the war had been fought for. The war from the unions point of view Abraham Lincolns point of view was a war of reunion. Over time the war becomes a war to stamp out slavery. The victories of union armies on the battlefield doesnt in itself resolve either one of those issues. That is what we are going to talk about we talk about reconstruction. Giving practical meaning to reunion. The Humpty Dumpty question, how do you put the union back together after civil war that has lasted for years . The cost may be 750,000 lives in total. How do you put the union back together . What i want to talk about today is the second of those two issues, the second aim of union policy. The goal of destroying slavery. What is that going to mean practically . What is freedom going to mean for 4 million former slaves in the United States . We talk in prior weeks about what
About the war. What the war had been fought for. The war from the unions point of view abraham lakins point of lincolns point of view was a war reunion. Over time the war becomes a war to stamp out slavery. The victories of union armies on the battlefield doesnt in itself resolve either one of those issues. That is what we are going to talk about we talk about reconstruction. Giving practical meaning to reunion. The Humpty Dumpty question have you put the union back together after civil war that has lasted for years . The cost may be 750,000 lives in total. Had he put the union back together . What i want to talk about today is the second of those two issues, the second aim of union policy. Destroying slavery. What is that going to mean practically . What is freedom going to mean for 4 million former slaves in the United States . We talk in prior weeks about what slavery was and we talked about in various aspects. It affected every aspect of american life, politics, culture, society. T
Particularly what the war had been fought for. Remember the war from the , unions point of view Abraham Lincolns point of view was a war of reunion. A war to stamp out recession. Over time, it becomes a war to stamp out slavery. The victory of union armies on the battlefield doesnt, in itself, resolve either one of those issues. That is what we are going to talk about we talk about talk about when we talk about reconstruction. Giving practical meaning to reunion. Think of this as the Humpty Dumpty question. How do you put the union back together after a civil war that lasted four years . The cost may be 750,000 lives in total. How do you put the union back together . That is what we will talk about next time. What i want to talk about today is the second of those two issues that the war raises. The second aim of union policy. In the civil war, their goal of destroying slavery. What is that going to mean . Practically what is freedom , going to mean for 4 million now former slaves in th
Making more money off the forced labor of africanamericans than they ever have before. I have seen statistics from economists that study this, and the amount of wealth from cotton exceeds every other investment in america. Tons of money has been made off the cotton empire. And we see how americans have gotten into the cotton empire with the invention of the cotton gin in the 1790s, americas transition from tobaccobased agriculture to cotton agriculture. If there is one thing i want you guys to get out of this class, slavery is not just a southern history topic. It is an American History topic. Scholars who study this subject emphasize the fact that the slave system has its tentacles into every corner of northern and southern society. This is not just down there in the moonlight and magnolias. New york bankers were in the cotton empire up to their eyeballs. As a matter of fact, when the war breaks out, many of the people who sympathize from the confederacy are from new york because they