Friday Apr 09, 2021
The American Civil War: A Sword in One Hand and the Book of Freedom in the Other (Pt. 4)
Our fourth episode on the American Civil War covers the course of events from Emancipation Proclamation to the end of the war. After a brief hiatus, we will be back with more episodes to cover the convulsive period of Reconstruction. Full transcript: bit.ly/3mzD0rJ.
Part 1: bit.ly/3aWMvg6.
Part 2: bit.ly/3tmb8JP.
Part 3: bit.ly/3w5sOLF.
Music: "Battle Cry of Freedom", University of California, Santa Barbara Library (CC BY-NC 2.5).
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Would’ve been cool to have mentioned August Willich. He was a German socialist who was friends with Engles. He challenged Marx to a duel because Marx would get drunk and challenge people to duels. Marx refused. Then he left to go to war against the Confederates in an all German battalion. He was at Shiloh. He helped with the Atlanta campaign. At the end of their lives, Marx said of him ”he was more than a visionary.” I think those two’s stories told together paint a picture of a varied approach.
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