States and confederate territory. He argues that emancipation was a process achieved gradually rather than happening just by the emancipation proclamation. Professor taylor we will be focusing on the central question and Civil War History about why this war that starts over the issue of slavery, but becomes the war that ends slavery in the United States. There is nothing inevitable about the outcome, and this image, i want to start with, sums up the transformation of the civil war works in American Life about his elegantly about as eloquently than what i will say today. It this is an africanamerican boy who was enslaved. He ends the war as a drummer board. We will talk about black service on wednesday, but we are going to be thinking about why this war was the most significant social revolution and American Life. Slavery is abolished and 4 million men, women and children go free. Because it is not obvious in 1861 that this war is eventually going to end in slavery destruction. It succe
States and confederate territory. He argues that emancipation was a process achieved gradually rather than happening just by the emancipation proclamation. Professor taylor we will be focusing on the central question and Civil War History about why this war that starts over the issue of slavery, but becomes the war that ends slavery in the United States. There is nothing inevitable about the outcome, and this image, i want to start with, sums up the transformation of the civil war works in American Life about his elegantly about as eloquently than what i will say today. It this is an africanamerican boy who was enslaved. He ends the war as a drummer board. We will talk about black service on wednesday, but we are going to be thinking about why this war was the most significant social revolution and American Life. Slavery is abolished and 4 million men, women and children go free. Because it is not obvious in 1861 that this war is eventually going to end in slavery destruction. It succe
Over the issue of slavery and and this image here. With sums up the transformation of the civil war and american life. This is an africanamerican boy who was enslaved when the war begins. Bite going to talk a little about black service today. What we will be thinking about why this war when slavery is abolished and 4 million men and women and children go free. It is not obvious in 1861 that this war is eventually going to end. If succession happens and some are fighting to preserve the institution of slavery, that does not mean most northerners go to war to set out to end slavery. 15 are out and from the beginning of the war really believe there fighting in the war and want to see the war and in slaverys destruction. What does union mean to them . Looks likens liberal republicanism is on the retreat worldwide, and americans see themselves as representatives of selfgovernment in a world full of monarchies. They see what the stakes are. If this rebellion and allowed to succeed and destro
Described at the time as a case without known parallel, a case that author matt lake says philadelphia broke wide open. Matt we caught him and we got the body, yeah. Hed have gotten away with it too if it werent for those darn philly kids. George most of h. H. Holmes notoriety centers in chicago, around the site of whats now this us post office. It was there, in 1889, that he built his famous Murder Castle Hotel ahead of the citys world fair, a castle full of secret chutes and gas chambers. Some who arrived were never seen again. Matt hed wind up putting them into an airtight room and turning a gas on in there until they suffocated. George experts believe holmes made big money selling his victims body parts and swindling their insurance. And in 1894, holmes brought his swindling to philadelphia and this corner of 13th and callowhill. It was here, lake says, that greed finally got the best of him. In his scheme to get insurance money, he killed his business partner, making it look like
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