Lecture 5 - Slavery & Conflict

"You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood...the North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors." - William T. Sherman

The system of slavery in America was historically unique in two important ways: it eventually embraced racial justifications in an attempt to sustain itself, and the institution ended entirely.

The wounds of America's most brutal war left their mark on everything and everyone: from the physical landscape slashed and burned from the first modern war to the emotional and physical scars of those consumed by the conflict.

Lincoln's assassination marked the beginning of a new "Gilded Age" defined by smoldering social resentments and an economy reinventing itself around mechanization while navigating the inflationary echo effects of Federal interventions.

We'll end by examing the Civil War and the differences between endogenous and exogenous enforcement systems during our discussion on Force.

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