This was a very difficult time in American history. The history of the confederacy should never be erased. There was a loyalty to the state you were born and raised. One can learn from the history of times gone by but we should never judge these times we never lived. I do not and never will call the people from the South traitors. They were loyal to their states, their people, and their beliefs. This is more than we can say about the people of our times.
@lymanmj
Жыл бұрын
Good grief. The sentimental "lost cause" pining just goes on and on...
@teddyhaynes9876
Жыл бұрын
No such thing as lost cause , just truth and lies. , the north created lies to push war on southern states
@junkyarddog47
8 жыл бұрын
After watching this video, I as a black man came away with a complete different view of Jefferson Davis. I can't explain how this can be. The story was told in such a manner that you could not help but feel the pain of this man. Many died believing in Jefferson Davis and what he truly believed. If President Z.Taylor told him that his daughter has more wisdom than he did about him, them he was a man that truly believed in principles. RIP Jeff
@JerrySkinner1943
8 жыл бұрын
+junkyarddog47 Thank you for your kind words. I can see you are a Gentleman Sir. Thanks again. Jerry
@junkyarddog47
8 жыл бұрын
You are welcome. Many might disagree with what I said, but that came from my heart. My heart never lie. My head, but never my heart.
@JerrySkinner1943
8 жыл бұрын
+junkyarddog47 Thank you junkyard, keep in touch. Jerry
@dogbean5015
4 жыл бұрын
Jefferson davis I think was a better president then Woodrow wilson
@douglasthompson7464
4 жыл бұрын
you really need to watch this kzitem.info/news/bejne/wJyb2HuIbGuWjYo it takes up after this
@madiantin
5 жыл бұрын
I love how you just present the facts, treating each person as human deserving of respect and compassion. No grandstanding, no sensationalizing, no politicalization. Fantastic.
@moragmacgregor6792
5 жыл бұрын
2.
@danor6812
4 жыл бұрын
Nice isn't it?
@debbieeckhardt8483
4 жыл бұрын
Amen!
@d.m.collins1501
4 жыл бұрын
Too bad he didn't get the facts RIGHT but hey, at least he didn't add any politicalization to all the changes he made to history.
@ellenadams7354
4 жыл бұрын
Amen! I agree 😇
@georgeorwell4534
4 жыл бұрын
Jefferson and Winnie Davis left a legacy on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, leaving their property for a home for homeless Confederate Veterans who had no other home. Over 2,000 soldiers lived and died there, with the last 2 widows leaving there in 1957. Behind Beauvior, the graves of those veterans lie there. When Katrina devastated the Coast, the Ohio National Guard posted an honor guard at the cemetery, a respectful and honorable gesture to those soldiers.
@connorperrett9559
Жыл бұрын
That is very good to hear. I can't imagine that any honor guard would be set up for them were this to happen again given the current "social environment".
@vernwallen4246
Жыл бұрын
@@connorperrett9559 Sad but true.🗽👍
@marcusjohnson5420
Жыл бұрын
Fuck them
@scottpeterson4802
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Ohio and the National Guard.
@ryankc3631
5 жыл бұрын
Living back then was largely about dying. The Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond is fascinating. Winnie Davis was stunning.
@spiritmatter1553
4 жыл бұрын
I've been to Hollywood cemetery in Richmond. Fascinating, beautiful place.
@fayedetch6704
4 жыл бұрын
For the life of me, Mrs. Davis looks like she had some 'black in her'.
@Walterwhiterocks
4 жыл бұрын
@@fayedetch6704 I tend to doubt it. None of their children (looking at the photos) have "darkish" complexions, and one would think one or two of them would if their mother had any African American genes at all.
@chuckbuckbobuck
4 жыл бұрын
Both the daughters were nice- looking.
@jerrybaldridge3693
4 жыл бұрын
My great great grandfather is buried in the Hollywood cemetery very proud of my southern heritage thank you all
@robertstrauss6167
3 жыл бұрын
God save the Republic
@gregtennessee8249
Жыл бұрын
Our Democracy is in danger. Trump Lost hahahahaha crybabies
@glucausa625
5 жыл бұрын
Born and raised in Italy and recently became a Proud US Citizen, I have thad say, although my allegiance is to the United States of America and its Flag, I highly respect the men who had fought for the Confederacy. Although, I don't share the same beliefs, people from the South should have the right to wave the Rebel Flag. God Bless America 🇺🇸
@glucausa625
5 жыл бұрын
Gary Daniel always, although, my flag now is the Starts and Stripes 🇺🇸
@alondathomas293
4 жыл бұрын
USA: Obviously you don't understand what the South was actually fighting for, otherwise you wouldn't even say that. Do your research, please.
@condor5089
3 жыл бұрын
My, how rosey those glasses. The South continues to be felled by this country's original sin, but things are MUCH better than they used to be. There is a relatively new South, today.
@gregtennessee8249
Жыл бұрын
Damn the flag. Trump Lost hahahahaha crybabies it's a piece of cloth Trumps maga cult terrorists flew trump flags as they stormed our US Capitol killing five people.
@gregtennessee8249
Жыл бұрын
@@alondathomas293 yes we do. Trump Lost hahahahaha crybabies
@Sameoldfitup
4 жыл бұрын
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” - Oscar Wilde
@Historyfreak-f7o
Жыл бұрын
This is true, but you have to admire a person who is willing to die for what they believe in.
@AA-ke5cu
Жыл бұрын
Well quoted; sir.
@AA-ke5cu
Жыл бұрын
@@Historyfreak-f7o belief is loaded with many deceptions find the truth first. Truth trumps all belief systems.
@MGTOWPaladin
Жыл бұрын
What is true is the historic records. The truth is Lincoln invaded the South for REVENUE TAX MONEY to "preserve the Union" Treasury!
@americanparser
Жыл бұрын
Nor is a thing necessarily true because history books teach it.
@amyntut
4 жыл бұрын
Jefferson Davis looked like Abe Lincoln.
@unknown-dq6df
3 жыл бұрын
Not really Jeff Davis had a amazing chin line
@tasteful_trash4773
3 жыл бұрын
@@unknown-dq6df and hair
@dcbeatsmarvel3627
3 жыл бұрын
@@unknown-dq6df And Abe Lincoln had amazing Cheek bones
@BarbaraMarrs-xy7rc
2 ай бұрын
It is theorized they had the same father. Papa Davis was an itinerate tinker; pots, needles, knives etc. They were born about 100 miles apart. It was not uncommon for traveling tradesmen to sleep in the house he traveled to.
@jettturbo1496
3 жыл бұрын
Yea ok, let's not make this guy out to be a "saint" this guy had people killed in the name of enslaving others and that's heroic⁉️I'm so glad he's out of here!! Otherwise very informative video
@lymanmj
3 жыл бұрын
Davis had the blood of over 483,000 Southern men who died in an attempt to preserve the awesomely *immoral* practice of kidnapping and enslaving people into forced labor on his treasonous hands.
@rollen901
2 жыл бұрын
He was fighting for a cause. Didn’t mean racist. At the time is was very normal to have slaves and nobody wanted to have to pay for labor. White or black. There where white slaves back then as well. Davis adopted a black kid and treated him as his own. Learn history before speaking on what the schools only taught you. Learn both sides before condemning. Africa sold slaves. So blame Africa just as much.
@bledsoetx
5 жыл бұрын
Great work. . . . but . . . it's pronounced "bove-wah" (Beauvoir). 20 years ago (pre-Katrina)my front yard was literally the back fence of Beauvoir. It was a beautiful property and Jefferson Davis' father (a Rev. War hero) was reburied there after Jefferson Davis took possession of the property. The great oak he used to sit under with his bible contemplating his past was magnificent as well. Southern History lost a great deal when Katrina hit Biloxi. The Confederate White House in Richmond is pretty impressive as well.
@georgeorwell4534
4 жыл бұрын
I visited in 2002 and was amazed with the history stored there, and the graves behind the house I never knew about.
@mabhet9063
4 жыл бұрын
You don't speak French, I see. You are using southern pronunciation, which is not correct.
@haplessasshole9615
4 жыл бұрын
@@mabhet9063 I think you meant to say, "...which is different." Though L'Academie Francais doesn't like it, there are always regional variations in pronunciation, and the Southern US is definitely nowhere near Paris. Do you also believe that natives of New Orleans are, one and all, mispronouncing the name of their own city because they don't pronounce it the same way as the residents of Orleans, France say the name of *their* city?
@fredwiley3731
4 жыл бұрын
I saw the estate before and afterwards. It looked to me like a lot was lost. Especially personal artifacts that were on display in the basement.
@dontcarebear3227
4 жыл бұрын
Mabhe T it’s called French Creole darlin
@pelicanbeater6100
5 жыл бұрын
My great great grandfather was a confederate veteran, he passed away in 1934. Officials from the US govt came out and our govt paid for his tombstone.
@Think1stMedia
4 жыл бұрын
Fuck your great Great grandfather. He was a bigot and a traitor and Fuck You Too if you are proud if him.
@randyrobinson8751
4 жыл бұрын
Fuck anyone that badmouths anyone that was a confederate veteran. Them guys weren't pussy snowflakes like what's wrecking America today.
@Bushdid-hx1zc
4 жыл бұрын
Drew Andrews Well Fuck you not all of the soldiers were fighting for slavery it was a second war of independence in most of their eyes and a majority of their families did not own slaves Im from the south and my great great grandfather was a confederate veteran just serving his country like any other soldier so go fuck yourself
@liveinms9949
Жыл бұрын
My great grandmother used to talk about going to takke food baskets to elderly confederate veterans when she was a little girl. They would always talk about the battle of Vicksburg. They were so desperate for food they caught rats and fried them on top of the cannons
@connorperrett9559
Жыл бұрын
My GGG-Grandfather was there. 36th Miss. Infantry. I'm sure siege life in the Mississippi heat was little better than active campaigning.
@twinsboy_3410
Жыл бұрын
Shouldn’t have been pro slavery I guess.
@MeadeSkeltonMusic
8 жыл бұрын
The only Democrat I would ever vote for.
@badguy5554
Жыл бұрын
Little known tid-bit of information about Jefferson Davis: As a young military officer he is credited with the exploration of the now famous Wisconsin Dells. What a beautiful family he had. What a tragedy his children passed so early in life.
@ROCK-vl5yw
Жыл бұрын
He killed other peoples kids
@TheGuitarReb
Жыл бұрын
@@ROCK-vl5yw Lincoln killed Southern Kids just like Putin is killing Ukrainian children.
@garrisonnichols807
Жыл бұрын
@@ROCK-vl5yw so did Lincoln. In case you didn't know it was a war.🤨
@MGTOWPaladin
Жыл бұрын
@ROCK-vl5yw It was Lincoln's decision to illegally invade the South for REVENUE TAX MONEY that caused the deaths of 750,000 people and allowing his troops to rape, pillage, and muder Southerners for four years.
@lymanmj
Жыл бұрын
@@garrisonnichols807 Skinner left out most of the damning evidence against Davis. Here's an example: From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
@benniebarrow348
2 жыл бұрын
I cant believe the Jimmy Carter has not been "canceled" for reinstating his citizenship
@susievarnado2142
2 жыл бұрын
😂😂
@sirstephen9825
Жыл бұрын
When did he lose his citizenship? I know high ranking confederates lost the right to vote and hold public office.
@gregtennessee8249
Жыл бұрын
Crybaby. Carter wasn't storming our US Capitol after he lost...
@derrickcarter912
5 жыл бұрын
wow plenty of people chimming in concerning the slavery issue. Well, folks hate to break it to you BUT Lincoln only freed the slaves of the South, he DID not free the slaves of the North. Here is a FACT for you: The Northern State of Delaware DID NOT ratify freeing the northern Slaves until.......1913!.....1913! bet you did not learn that in the Public Slave School system.....Also, the South WAS working towards an end to slavery, as the Constitution for the Confederate States of America includes a clause that it was now illegal to import slaves from Africa. I guess none of you were taught that either. No, the war between the States was NOT about Slavery, it WAS about bringing in a Powerful Central Military Government. Do any of you know why the South named their Nation: The Confederate States of America?, now, where did they get that from?, Oh wait a minute! that's right the FIRST Constitution of the American Republic was styled: The Articles of Confederation. The Constitution of 1787 was NOT the first Constitution for America, Nor was George Washington the First President of America, there were about a dozen Presidents prior to George, but again, the Public Slave School System fails to teach that set of facts...........Gee I wonder why?
@frankjoseph7259
5 жыл бұрын
People don't realize how prominent the Welsh were and still are in the South.
@Perririri
4 жыл бұрын
Also, just north and west of Philadelphia; now called the #MainLine, and filled with Welsh place names !
@metroguy4879
4 жыл бұрын
Frank Joseph society should back track, and every family who fathers profited from human bondage should be made to give the dead slaves children their doe, and maybe God will let them rest the devil is real
@harveyabel1354
4 жыл бұрын
@John Bold Deer me....;)
@madaraobreen7772
4 жыл бұрын
And Irish
@teddyhaynes9876
Жыл бұрын
God forgives and forgets , God looks at a lie just the same as slavery , it’s all a sin period .. everyone has sinned , can’t say one is worse
@darrellterry7209
5 жыл бұрын
Abraham Lincoln said I am both if favor and not in favor of slavery depending on which ever will get me elected .Google it or better yet read your history books while they still exist.
@12rwoody
4 жыл бұрын
He didn't say or write anything close to that. Lol.
@patriciadavis8535
3 жыл бұрын
Read...Approaching Fury...voices from the past...get educated...jeez
@michaellovetere8033
3 жыл бұрын
They are too busy teaching kids about how great BLM is and critical race theory indoctrination, to teach them anything about critical thinking and how to be self-sufficient in the real world.
@jaymortensen642
Жыл бұрын
Just a great story of our history, there was one thing that I heard that has been loosed over time since the Civil War is the relationship between people and the state they are from, even though he spoke out against succession he still followed where his Mississippi went and that was the thinking even in the Declaration of Independence they believed they were free and independent states and I suppose that belief is what led them to think it was in their rights to succeed.
@connorperrett9559
Жыл бұрын
We have lost that because of active propaganda campaigns that frame the early United States as something it isn't. It was conceived of more as "these United States", not "the United States".
@tomjones2348
5 жыл бұрын
It's encouraging to see astute Americans commenting on this presentation. School children continue to be taught lies about Lincoln's war to this day.
@thebestevertherewas
3 жыл бұрын
What do you mean by that?
@michaellovetere8033
3 жыл бұрын
Our children are being "taught" fed lies about a lot of things these days..
@lymanmj
3 жыл бұрын
Anyone supporting this nasty little piece of propaganda seems to be that group, Tom. Hitler likes dogs. Stalin liked small children. Davis, like them, had the blood of great masses of people on his hands from fighting for an immoral cause. How this is so hard for folks to grasp can be disheartening. Jerry Skinner evidently wants to be part of the whitewashing disinformation campaign that some Southerners seems to think is a necessity. How they can't just admit the mistake and move on with the rest of us remains a mystery to me.
@LacyChuck
5 жыл бұрын
You selectively quote from Jeff Davis' farewell speech to the US Senate. As you say, he did say it was his saddest day. But he also said in the same speech that he supported Mississippi's decision to secede. You also minimize his slave ownership. He did not clear his land with one slave. He owned 16 slaves by 1836 and adding slave property regularly he owned over a hundred slaves by 1860.
@lymanmj
3 жыл бұрын
Davis was an immoral, misguided man. Jerry Skinner seems to want to follow in his tracks.
@americanpatriot9865
5 жыл бұрын
Never knew he adopted a black child... Wow...Throws cold water on the history I learned in high school.
@ericsimpson1176
5 жыл бұрын
Its does not matter to the young libtards today. Fact dont matter to them.
@rolandrodriguez3854
5 жыл бұрын
Funny how the Demorat teachers leave out important details to support their own agenda. Scumbags.
@ericsimpson1176
5 жыл бұрын
@@rolandrodriguez3854 very true,
@cannonball666
5 жыл бұрын
Yes. And Lincoln's letter to Horace Greely stating Lincoln's primary objective for the war was to restore the Union and not to necessarily end slavery if it would preserve the country. This is evidence that the war didn't start over the idea to end slavery but to preserve the Union by squashing secession. But because there was no legal excuse for squashing a constitutional secession Lincoln listened to the abolitionists who urged him to make the war about slavery. Lincoln obliged because it now gave the government a moral excuse to continue to wage war on a legal secession. This came after 2 years into the war where the Emancipation Proclamation outlawed slavery. If slavery was the reason the war began then why was slavery not outlawed in the beginning but not until 2 years later? I already explained why. Lincoln didn't care about slaves but listened to the abolitionists who also convinced him that by finally outlawing slavery would spark a slave rebellion in the south and end the war sooner. Lincoln was convinced of this but the slave rebellion never happened. But not a complete failure for Lincoln since he now had a new moral excuse for continuing a horrific bloody war which the old illegal excuse of a squashing secession was losing popularity.
@americanpatriot9865
5 жыл бұрын
cannonball666 that’s right! I am amazed at what I’ve learned about Lincoln’s desire to expatriate blacks to the country of Liberia. Did you ever hear of such a thing?
@enriquemireles8947
4 жыл бұрын
I will be in Biloxi later this month and I am glad I saw this. I would like to visit the tomb of the unknown soldier before some dumb ass tears it down.
@whalesong999
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Jerry. This was much more interesting than learning it from a history book. I graduated h.s. in 1959 - I don't remember if any J. Davis history was pointed out in h.s.
@JerrySkinner1943
8 жыл бұрын
+whalesong999 Thank you, so much is left out in class room studies. They, i guess do not have the time to study the personal life of individuals . That leaves out so much. Thank you Whalesong. Jerrry
@dougmcconnaughey4979
4 жыл бұрын
It should have been...curriculum guidelines point out the history in an honorific manner. Otherwise I believe Jeff Davis and his merry band should have been hung. Examine the rhetoric of Davis and it alienates me from fair treatment of the criminal. War of Northern Agression? Bullshit. Criminals attempting to do something they couldn't do as an electoral majority. In the year of 20 and 20, so swear me God...fuck the confederacy.
@Think1stMedia
4 жыл бұрын
I can sum up Jefferson Davis's History in one word TRAITOR
@Bushdid-hx1zc
4 жыл бұрын
Drew Andrews Same thing goes for George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
@@Bushdid-hx1zc You are one sad, sick puppy, dude. You simply cannot countenance the fact that the American South fought the *United States* desperately to retain its *slave* *labor* *based* economy. And *LOST*. Badly. And, which, to this day, retains a mass of uneducated people who cannot accept the loss. So, to this day, most rural Southerners are still racist ^ssholes - who try to glorify the monsters who fought on the side of the traitors to the United States. Forrest? "Although scholars generally respect Forrest as a military strategist, he has remained a controversial figure in Southern racial history, especially for his role in the massacre of black soldiers at Fort Pillow and his 1867-1869 leadership of the Ku Klux Klan." - Wiki So, yeah, when we need another murderous racist lynch mob organizer, Nathan's our man!
@old64goat
8 жыл бұрын
Thank You Jerry for reposting this video, very educational
@JerrySkinner1943
8 жыл бұрын
+old64goat Thank you for watching!
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
@@JerrySkinner1943 Good job, comrade. Look at all the rubes here you have buying your "applying lipstick to a pig" attempt to portray a war criminal as an admirable person. Now go collect your ruble.
@dogbean5015
4 жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj god damn why are you hating on every commet
@lymanmj
3 жыл бұрын
@@dogbean5015 Because Jerry Skinner is attempting to *whitewash* the *real* history of racist murderer Davis.
@tommyvette969
8 жыл бұрын
it sickens me to know that people really believe that removing the confederate flag from any posted location is just going to erase any memory of the people who struggled to create this beutiful country. god bless America both flags north and south 850.000 lives .
@orangecountyanthony1613
5 жыл бұрын
No blessings for the southern traitors. Good that they have rotted to the worms.
@moragmacgregor6792
5 жыл бұрын
The Confederate Battle flag is extremely offensive to African Americans because so many who fly it are in fact racists. I'm for replacing it with the official Confederate flag which doesn't have such an emotional meaning.
@moragmacgregor6792
5 жыл бұрын
@@orangecountyanthony1613 But f*** you dude. You're just a narrow-minded prick.
@fredjklein
4 жыл бұрын
A beautifully done treatment - revealing the humanity behind the confederacy. I played many times on the grounds of Davis' home Beauvoir, but never once realized the history. I recall seeing the Confederate widows - three surviving at that time - rocking on the porch of one of the grounds' houses - decked out in their long dresses and sunbonnets - in the sweltering heat. Oh, if I only knew then - what a wealth of history they could have shared... Thanks for this piece...
@boffo63
4 жыл бұрын
" humanity behind the confederacy" I'll just let that sit here awhile.
@joerhea9340
Жыл бұрын
Right! There was no humanity behind the Confederacy. We are talking about a group of traitors who wanted to succeed because they knew that their way of life, aka slavery, was being challenged. Those is power could not have that, and those white people to poor to own slaves, were still “better” than a slave in their eyes.
@au7-721
Жыл бұрын
@@boffo63 If you lived during that time you probably would have owned slaves.
@BTScriviner
Жыл бұрын
Ask the enslaved black people about the "humanity of the Confederacy." Jefferson Davis was a traitor.
@nghtwtchmn129
Жыл бұрын
@@boffo63 You think that the North had clean hands? Who do you think imported the slaves in the first place? And who bought that cotton that the slaves picked?
@duoneswart4989
Жыл бұрын
A story worthy of being told
@lymanmj
Жыл бұрын
From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
@connorperrett9559
Жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj Okay.
@myboyz9391
5 жыл бұрын
Does anyone else thing that his second wife looked like she was part African American? Her mother was from Mississippi. How interesting.
@ElusvOptmst1
4 жыл бұрын
@My BoyZ I was thinking the same thing.
@anthonyJohnson-ll7qx
4 жыл бұрын
I see that too, I wonder.
@susievarnado2142
2 жыл бұрын
Yes absolutely
@geneballay9590
8 жыл бұрын
Another very interesting video. Thank you for all the work.
@JerrySkinner1943
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you again Gene. jerry
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
@@JerrySkinner1943 You are a Whitewasher par excellence, Jerry.
@23Josilee
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this Remembrance of Jefferson Davis...with a voice filled with kindness and honor! From another child of the South, a totally different world than from the north.
@seawynd99
5 жыл бұрын
a much better world...
@silasmarner7586
5 жыл бұрын
As a Yankee, I want to say I love the South and the Southerner and feel more bond with them than my Yankee bretheren.
@dagnabbit6187
5 жыл бұрын
@@silasmarner7586 i am a white Southerner who no longer lives in the South and i think white Southerners who are stiil into this shit are backwards . It is old . Fifty years ago Gone With Wind was still released in theatres . Now ? As Coach Mike Leach said to his Texas Tech team about their 11 & 2 Season midway through the next Season " Well that don't make a shit anymore !"
@melodyjordan6052
5 жыл бұрын
@@@dagnabbit6187 Well, it gave a shit to the soldiers that fought the Civil War and their relatives. It gives a shit to the people in the South, and we are very proud of our heritage and way of life. We will not forget our ancestors that fought nor will we forget our northern brothers that fought what they believed in also. No, more than I will forget the Wars our soldiers fought in to keep this country free. Never ever forget and it is worth remember so it will not be repeated. God Bless America.
@lsusmuggler
5 жыл бұрын
@Kristie C the probability of slavery ending by legislation was slim. Compromise after compromise, since the adoption of the Constitution, almost all favoring slavery. The south would not abandon slavery.
@davidjones8164
5 жыл бұрын
That is Joseph E JOHNSTON not Johnson! There is nothing in the US Constitution that says a state cannot secede. There is no procedure, at all, in the U.S. constitution for a state to secede. No state would have joined the union in 1787 if they thought they would have to give up their Sovereigty to a central government. The Military Academy at West Point taught that a state could secede, and Jefferson Davis graduated from West Point. The 10th Amendment guarantees the Sovereign right to it's independent existence. In Texas v. White in 1869, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that states cannot secede. The 8th Amendment prevents a state from existing system. There was a period of about 4 years when the State of Franklin existed within North Carolina. They partitioned the government to become the 14th colony but we're not admitted. The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin or the State of Frankland was an unrecognized and autonomous territory located in what is today Eastern Tennessee, United States. Franklin was created in 1784 from part of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains that had been offered by North Carolina as a cession to Congress to help pay off debts related to the American War for Independence. It was founded with the intent of becoming the fourteenth state of the new United States.
@JennWest-Liberty
2 жыл бұрын
Lincoln was not trying to "hold the Union together." He was trying to secure lands for the railroads as a former attorney for the railroads.
@BarbaraMarrs-xy7rc
2 ай бұрын
He managed to get the government to pay the railroads to build.
@dannyc.jewell8788
5 жыл бұрын
It is refreshing that at a place where views ,click bait, and subscribers are all the rage ,me included ,some one takes the time to do the research and and create a high quality entertaining video that is educational as well ,presented within the context of the period ,divorced from present day political correctness.
@lymanmj
3 жыл бұрын
Surely you're joking, Danny.
@John-th4sy
2 жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj No, he's not joking. lincoln got exactly what he deserved.
@denaballsewing6601
8 жыл бұрын
Love this story. Wonderful true story. Love the video Jerry. Great and wonderful job. 😀😀👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@JerrySkinner1943
8 жыл бұрын
+Dena Bandsma Thank you!
@denaballsewing6601
8 жыл бұрын
Ur welcome! :-)
@3trilogy
8 жыл бұрын
+Jerry Skinner A very sad story, but a great video. Thank you for this contribution to the historical record.
@ronaldbuckley2531
7 жыл бұрын
All Sewing Projects
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
@@JerrySkinner1943 So, Jerry, we are anxious to see your upcoming video about Pickett - the great Confederate hero. Especially about his great work at Gettysburg.
@texasyoutuber217
5 жыл бұрын
I never knew his life was intertwined with so much personal tragedy.
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
You actually give a spit? The man tried to create a nation whose economy would be based on forcing people kidnapped from another country to perform free labor! Some of you Southerners are seriously delusional or *sick* b^stards.
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
The tragedy for the U.S. South was that he ever existed.
@metroguy4879
4 жыл бұрын
lymanmj somebody had to say it, thank you 🤓
@Bushdid-hx1zc
4 жыл бұрын
lymanmj He actually was originally opposed secession and did not want to be the president of the CSA
@Bushdid-hx1zc
4 жыл бұрын
John Saunders well Lincoln insisted on keeping us in the Union
@rebeccalopez2997
6 жыл бұрын
Balanced and poignant bio of an American who should be better known. Thank you Jerry
@sandrarice2069
4 жыл бұрын
@Free Thinker This man suffered tremendously in his lifetime. Your statement is not true. That's your opinion not fact! How dare you!!!
@chasfh
4 жыл бұрын
He repudiated his American citizenship so he could continue to own people.
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
@@sandrarice2069 I am a distant relative of Davis. He chose to be the head of a group of seditionists who, when faced with the loss of slavery, that had long been used to prop up its feeble economy, lead the movement to secede from the United States. He was a traitor to the United States. He was responsible for sending legions of young men who had no dog in the fight to their premature deaths. He oversaw one of the worst prison camps in history, including those of Japan and Germany in the 1940s. he was regarded as incompetent by his own staffers and generals. But hey, other than that - a just a great guy who had to endure a lot of hardships.
@sandrarice2069
4 жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj I am so very sorry.😪
@connorperrett9559
Жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj Seethe, cope, dilate, in that order. If constantly coming back to this video after 3 years to post copy-pasted sections of Wikipedia articles helps you cope with the goofy blood guilt you think you have then, hey, you do you.
@XxpauldadudexX
4 жыл бұрын
Davis lost 4 of 6 children, Lincoln lost 3 of 4 sons...It didn't matter who you were, prosperous, powerful, influential, in the 19th century as life was so harsh in regards to diseases and poor medical knowledge. Yep, losing children in those days was an accepted hazard and child mortality was high for every sphere of society...so cruel and painful for parents of them times.
@susievarnado2142
2 жыл бұрын
Louisiana had so many deaths from mosquitoes. New Orleans couldn’t bury people fast enough. My grandfathers family had some childhood deaths and my grandmother told me every summer her and her siblings would have to take powder and put it in capsules for malaria.
@jerryjones5055
Жыл бұрын
He sold the Land to Ben so who wouldn't lose it to the North after the War...It was Actually Ben idea...
@benjoseph8387
8 жыл бұрын
Seems Davis was correct that secession was constitutional...but federal strongarming by Lincoln established big govt. control...which endures to the present. Latter photo of Davis ...he looks very venerable a man. good music and narrative....have you done R.E.Lee?
@manbunxx1489
8 жыл бұрын
Go get an education
@manbunxx1489
7 жыл бұрын
[154thTN] Seth Adam How do you know my name ?
@nunyabiznez6381
7 жыл бұрын
How do you figure that secession is constitutional? I've read my copy of it many times and find no place where it permits secession. Could you cite what portion specifies that a state, once part of the union, can legally and constitutionally secede?
@momof2usmarines
7 жыл бұрын
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@billlawrence1899
7 жыл бұрын
Nothing specifically forbidden in the Constitution is legal.
@paulalexander2928
5 жыл бұрын
Jefferson Davis visited Toronto Canada after he was paroled . While in Toronto he was feted by dignitaries and prominent citizens who had Confederate sympathies. During his stay he was serenaded in the evenings by the concert band of The Queens Own Rifles who played his favourite selections who played under his hotel room window. I am a former member of the regiment , the Regiment was formed in 1860 and has served in every major conflict Canada has fought in. Many Canadians served on both sides from 1861 to 1865.
@seawynd99
5 жыл бұрын
beautiful..
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
Jefferson Davis, my distant relative, despite whatever human qualities he may have exhibited, was a leader of a traitorous sect of seditionists who broke with the United States over the practice of owning and exploiting helpless humans. To put this in phraseology that his defenders can understand, Davis was a seriously misguided racist who bore the deaths of over 1 million mean and women between 1861 and 1865 - a "POS". What could Skinner's motivation be for this video other than simply to add to the myriad attempts by racists ever since, to whitewash the immoral, evil acts of weak people to base their economy on the free labor stolen by force from enslaved human beings? Skinner would likely deny he is a racist. This is the blindness that continues to fester in a non-trivial segment of our U.S. population. As we wouldn't create a video about Hitler that showed he was kind to animals and to his mistress without also documenting the industrialized murder he committed, any video about Davis, such as this piece of unabashed racist propaganda, that does not begin to adequately enumerate his depraved indifference to human life and his systematic elimination of over 294,000 lives of Southerners for an incandescently immoral and despicable purpose, does no good to the cause of empirically documenting the horrible truth of his "presidency".
@John-th4sy
2 жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj Bravo Sieera! lincoln is the bad guy not davis. The primary cause of the war of northern aggression was tariffs. The north couldn't compete in the world market place, so they imposed high tariffs on imported goods from Europe. The tariffs not only did not benefit the South it punished them. They were having to pay more for imported goods due to the high tariffs. That also meant their wealth was being siphoned off and sent up north. The north had a greater population, so it had more votes in congress. So, their concerns about the tariffs were ignored. Why would they want to keep paying high tariffs for no reason? So, tariffs were the primary catalyst to war, states rights 2nd and slavery was a distant 3rd, becasue it was fading out anyway. Slavery was a moral evil on day one and an economic failure on day two. It wasn't profitable. That's why Thomas Jefferson died $80,000 in debt, and he brought it on himself. Paid employees are more productive than slaves. Every other Western nation abolished slavery without a war. There were still slaves in New York City in the 1850s as well as New England. It's clear that the civil war was uneccessary. lincoln was just a murdering scumbag who offered grant the chance to kill and destroy. But, hey, that's why he went to westpoint and became an infantry officer. Over 80% of the Confederate soldiers had to do their own work. It defies logic that they would want to fight a war just so the 10 to 15% sons of wealthy plantation owners wouldn't have to get their hands dirty. In conclusion, no man in histroy did more to earn his fate than lincoln.
@marymarysmarket3508
Жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj OMG
@lymanmj
Жыл бұрын
@@John-th4sy Dude. The Civil War certainly does defy logic - we are in total agreement here. The 11 *southern* states seceded over the desire of the 10% AND the general population to maintain the practice of slavery - the southern "way of life" - not any northern states. Doesn't this strike you as completely immoral? WWJD? Own slaves? Or, be OK with slavery because Whites did not want to have to pick cotton or have to take on the menial labor that Black people were forced to do with threats and acts of violence against them? Fer crying out loud, take a moment to question the feeble shibboleths you have been inculcated with at a tender age and *educate* *yourself* !
@64samsky
5 жыл бұрын
My great grandfather was named Stonewall Jackson Atwell Griffin , his father Albert was in the 55th Virginia Regiment. My great grandfather was born during the war
@timzynski
5 жыл бұрын
My Great Great Grandfather got his arm blown off at Second Bull Run facing Stonewall Jackson.
@richardstevens3478
5 жыл бұрын
64samsky it’s good to have revenge for your ancestors BUT don’t support their misguided allegiances. The South was wrong. Slavery is a stain on America. Support Trump 2020 MAGA 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
@timzynski
5 жыл бұрын
Richard Steven's. My great great Grandfather and I would be out kicking arse if we saw someone try to take down a Stonewall Jackson statue
@melodyjordan6052
5 жыл бұрын
@@richardstevens3478 Who an the hell are you to judge the hearts of these brave Southern soldiers? It take two side to start a war or even a simple argument.
@chriscampbell7895
5 жыл бұрын
Richard Stevens government education I see, and accepting of what is shoveled in schools and I see politics
@sarahwilloughby2509
8 жыл бұрын
We r deeply divided along political and racial lines even today, but there r good ppl on both sides. We can only hope that the United States of America never goes thru a time again when Americans turn on Americans. Pls let cooler heads prevail.
@johnmonroe1327
7 жыл бұрын
I agree with you Sarah. It was our greatest national tragedy, our troubled country just 85 years old then. We are still a young nation. Our internal divisions are still wide and deep. I fear that our children will see even worse horrors than we can ever imagine now.
@emilysummer1373
7 жыл бұрын
I have learned more from your videos ,Jerry, than anywhere else. Fascinating to watch. Thank you so much.
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
What have you learned, really, Emily - other than Jerry Skinner makes money here appealing to the base fears and ignorance of low-information Southern apologists?
@ThePiratemachine
4 жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj But what have you learned about US foreign policy, lymanmi? - in Yemen, Libya etc - there's a whole list of them that makes your comments on the internal war in The United States look lop-sided. Just asking.
@lymanmj
3 жыл бұрын
@@ThePiratemachine Huh?
@dewaynemizzell7009
3 жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj I don’t know why it is you feel compelled to look down your crooked nose at a person for telling historical stories and those who choose to listen. Do you think that the north was correct and the south wasn’t? The history of the north is replete with the same sorts of incidents, however the victors typically get to write the histories so I can see where your ignorance derived.
@lymanmj
3 жыл бұрын
@@dewaynemizzell7009 Dewayne: this is not about North vs. South! That was litigated over 150 years ago. "My ignorance" as you see it in my posts about the highly questionable intent of Skinner's video is nothing more or less than the accurate portrayal of the motives of Jefferson Davis and the disastrous results of his administration. Can you imagine someone posting a video about how Stalin was kind to children, how he liked classical music and the ballet, and mentioned nothing about the millions he had murdered? Nor is this about the North wanting the South to "feel bad" or to feel shame or any sort of thing. It is about accepting the realities of United States history, and understanding how our history informs the opinions and actions of our fellow citizens today. I see no need to whitewash Davis or the U.S. Confederacy. Do you?
@disgustedvet
5 жыл бұрын
Lifelong Civil War buff but this taught me things I didn't know .
@d.m.collins1501
4 жыл бұрын
Well, do some fact checking, because he got a lot of things wrong.
@stainedred5463
4 жыл бұрын
@@d.m.collins1501 Go on with it what did he get wrong?
@toinimoore3463
4 жыл бұрын
When our history books in school are so lacking in information I am great full you believe in giving us our knowledge to those of us who Enjoy it😉😊
@toinimoore3463
4 жыл бұрын
D. M. Collins Take a good look at a high school history book sometime buster!
@stainedred5463
4 жыл бұрын
@@toinimoore3463 Very true About school history books. One thing they never taught us in school history books is that there were black slave owners in America In fact those were the Most BRUTAL slave owners in America.
@dianekennedy8602
8 жыл бұрын
Dear Jerry,Thank you so much for your documentaries on Jefferson Davis and Meriwether Lewis. My second great grandfather was Andrew Jackson Davis of Boone County, Indiana; he was President Davis' cousin. He was also a cousin to Meriwether Lewis, whom he strongly resembled. I've been watching your documentaries for my genealogical work.Jefferson Davis' life was indeed tragic in many ways. I'm glad that someone is finally recognizing this issue. What many don't seem to understand is that he was not thrilled with the war or being appointed President of the CSA. Jefferson Davis was backed into a corner in a very bad situation. Just like Lee and Virginia, he had to support the interests of his home State of Mississippi. Jefferson Davis didn't have much of a choice. I've read elsewhere that he was reduced to tears the day he resigned from the U.S. Senate.I've just recently discovered KZitem; I hope to see more of your work. Thanks again -- Diane Kennedy.
@JerrySkinner1943
8 жыл бұрын
+Diane Kennedy Thank you so much Diane, President Davis was more than just President of the Southern cause. I did not know these things about him until i started the research. Thank you again. Jerry
@dianekennedy8602
8 жыл бұрын
+Jerry SkinnerMy second great grandfather's resemblance to Jefferson Davis was in his personality. Sam Houston was quoted as saying President Davis was "ambitious as Lucifer and cold as a lizard". That gives me a chuckle, because that is much how my grandmother described Andrew Jackson Davis to me. She was a little more diplomatic though - she said "strong willed and ambitious". A. J. Davis and Jefferson Davis may not have looked alike, but were "kissin' cousins" when it came to personality traits! LOL - Diane.
@JerrySkinner1943
8 жыл бұрын
+Diane Kennedy Thanks Diane, sounds like the two traits i do not like in a person. Ambition and cold attitude. Jerry
@dianekennedy8602
8 жыл бұрын
+Jerry Skinner That is the only real thing my grandmother ever told me about her grandfather; she didn't like him. But by the same stroke, this aspect of A. J. Davis' personality helps me establish his relationship to Jefferson Davis (aside from family oral history). Jefferson Davis had deep blue eyes like my Davis family; he also was blind in one eye. The Davis family as I know them are prone to vision loss problems. We are from the branch of the family called the Nathaniel "Black Robert" Davis line. There are naysayers out there that say we are a different family. I don't think so from the DNA report. There are too many similarities to be coincidence.
@stargatedr
5 жыл бұрын
I too am related; first cousin 6x removed to Meriwether Lewis, and by marriage related to Jefferson Davis via the Zachary Taylor and Meriwether families
@annejohnson8890
5 жыл бұрын
We all think we know so much about the United States but I always learn a lot from your videos and your voice is beautiful.
@johnmonroe7378
5 жыл бұрын
Anne Johnson Jerry has the smoothest voice of all.
Im not American, but have great interest in its history for two reasons. 1) because Hardly any American know it, 2) there is so much propaganda in it history, 3) I like to search for the truth not what people say. What and incredible life and history of this man. I was told by one of his slaves that he educated most of his slaves and had a school at the plantation. That slave was George Johnson. What we can learn from Jefferson: Jefferson offered schooling to blacks according George a eye witness, you can't say that of the so-called progressive socialistic left nowadays. They, these "progressives" or better regressive like to turn education into garbage and take it away from blacks and whites, Tell me who is guy here.
@BarbaraMarrs-xy7rc
2 ай бұрын
Most of the plantation owners did teach their black servants to read and write. If they had been caught, they would have fine and maybe jailed. It was against the law.
@granskare
4 жыл бұрын
Let us hope that both the north & south may live together in peace.
@dogbean5015
4 жыл бұрын
@John Saunders yessir
@dogbean5015
4 жыл бұрын
@Dan Chapowski that guy is a Europussy
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
@Dan Chapowski John - see how "Dan" has the English spelling capacity of a fifth grade C- student? Speaks to his "credibility". These Southern racists will *never* give it up.
@amandanichole8648
4 жыл бұрын
@Dan Chapowski ... What?..
@reynosa9891
2 жыл бұрын
The man did his best under the circumstances and no state suffered more than Mississippi. But he knew that the South was destined to lose a prolonged war. I would like to see his legacy honored and Matthew McConaughay would be excellent portraying Jeff Davis's life and times. The good the bad and everything between. His story needs to be told.
@hensonlaura
Жыл бұрын
Ew. Matthew McMcConaughey 😬 CANNOT understand the appeal of that smarmy, slimy guy,
@nodnarb1520
2 жыл бұрын
He spent one night on his flight to freedom in my old hometown of Joanna, South Carolina, then known as as Goldville SC. This was on the way to Abbeville SC
@johnfoster535
8 жыл бұрын
Davis was reluctant to serve as Confederate President, but , he accepted the duty placed upon him with honor. Both he and Robert E.Lee served nobly and fought for what they believed was right. Davis was actually correct about his opinion that the states had the right to secede.....Lincoln himself was advised of this by a Supreme Court Justice before the war began, based on Connecticut wanting to secede during the War of 1812 in hopes of not being attacked by the British. The history our children learn is distorted and slanted. Davis and Lee were men of honor, and that is why so many admired them. Lincoln is always celebrated as being our best president, because he " saved the Union" and "freed the slaves", while Davis and Lee are regarded as slave - whipping traitors. The TRUTH is that slavery would have ended naturally in just a few more years, because of the advancements in farm machinery from people like Cyrus McCormick, who wanted Robert E. Lee to run for president, after the war ! If the war mongering and greedy parties on either side could have been controlled....the massive tragedy of war could have been avoided.....Lincoln FAILED in this regard and should be held responsible by history. Somebody had to defend the people of the South and lead them....it fell upon Davis and Lee, and they served with honor and committment to their duty, sacrificing greatly all the while. It is little known that in 1864 the "Dahlgren Raid" by Union cavalry into Richmond was a mission , approved by Lincoln, to murder as many high ranking Confederate leaders as possible....including Jefferson Davis. After careful study, it has been proven that the written orders found on the body of commander Ulrich Dahlgren were authentic. There are some who believe Lincoln's own death was due to this dishonorable attempt to murder President Davis. Though a cipher machine was found to belong to one of Booth's conspirators, it was never proven that orders were given to kill Lincoln. However, the wily General Lee made one comment regarding Lincoln near the war's end and one after Lincoln was shot that struck me as being cryptic. The first comment was in regards to Lincoln's plan to go easy on the South, if they were to surrender, to which Lee said : " I have surrendered as much to Lincoln's kindness, as to Grant's artillery" The second comment was in regards to Lincoln being assassinated...Lee said : " it is unprecedented in our history ". I got the impression that Lee was conveying the idea that assassination is something that JUST IS NOT DONE in our country and is beyond our code of honor. Another words, my thought is that Lee was saying that ORDINARILY this assassination would not have happened...it's not like us....except that some act may have CAUSED it. I could be wrong, but , I felt that the first comment about Lincoln showed a feeling of emotion toward Lincoln by Lee and the second comment was devoid of ANY emotion toward Lincoln....that made me think. After all, it was Lee who said that General John Bell Hood was " all lion, and NO fox ". Davis should be remembered, along with the other Confederate heroes of the South because they were AMERICANS after all.
@jackripper1518
8 жыл бұрын
By "reluctant" you mean he absolutely did not want to secede from the Union and called it "the saddest day of his life" when they did? and by "with honor", you mean felt a sense of duty to remain loyal as he was a representative of Mississippi? I have to admit, I get a kick out of the slants on history according to who is telling it. On a side note, I did hear that correctly, as I just heard it again - "His bail was put up by wealthy friends IN THE NORTH." Lol, no rich plantation owners eager to pony up that bail money for their hero?
@jackripper1518
8 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ, man - "Slavery would have ended on it's own eventually because of advancements in farming machinery"? THAT is your defense of the south's belief that it was ok to own other human beings??? LOL - THAT is why they didn't wait. The fact that you would even make that statement with no regard for the lives of those people is very telling of your character. That is the funniest "downplay" of a situation I have ever heard. YOU PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS OK TO OWN OTHER HUMAN BEINGS SO YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY FOR LABOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That farm machinery you speak of, who was going to run it? See, that is the beauty of being capitalist pigs - as long as free or cheap labor is available, it will be used. Why do you think all our stuff is made in China nowadays????? Slavery would have never ended.
@jackripper1518
8 жыл бұрын
I have heard that "excuse" a thousand times, and it is a great example of what I was talking about when I said that it always amused me to see the spin put on something, depending on which side was telling it. You can spout the "slavery wasn't the cause of the war" bulls**t all you want. Why were they seceding from the Union? To protect slavery. Here are your words : " The South's role in causing the actual war was the FEAR and ASSUMPTION that Lincoln would INTERFERE with their current slavery and that he would DEFINITELY not allow its expansion into the new territories, which meant that any NEW state would be aligned with northern interests and would be more likely to FORCE an end to slavery by government action." As an apparently well educated, intelligent and thoughtful human being, I would assume you are familiar with problem solving, identifying root causes, etc. in any type of situation where there is a problem or conflict and there will have to be some type of conflict resolution? I have never been formally taught the procedures from my perch down here in the world of the simple minded, uneducated fools, but lucky for me, The Good Lord blessed me with common sense. I would be willing to bet that it would have been pretty tough to have a negotiation on the matter of secession without having one on the issue of slavery. Your well written proposal as to the contribution of the South in the cause of the war could be simplified for uneducated fools like myself, so it would be easier for us to understand. How's this sound? "Them Yankees is gonna take away our slaves we done paid for AND force an end to slavery altogether! (Much easier for my feeble mind to grasp) and since THAT belief led to secession, I'm going to go with my feeble minds narrow ability to follow a path that makes sense and say that slavery was a major contributing factor to the war. Lincoln said "no secession", The South said "we are succeeding" (for the reasons that you pointed out) and the rest is history. Lincoln chose not to partake in any type of bargaining for the simple reason that there was nothing to bargain - his stance was that it was not to happen, period. Now, I only read your reply once, so I probably can't recall specifics, but in general, I'm going to summon all the brain power I can and see if I might take a stab at the rest of your reply. As to the lengthy and informative take on how Lee was against slavery, along with most of the other southern folks - what a wonderful attempted minimization of the Souths role in promoting and attempting to maintain slavery. I also have no idea why the role of Lee as a SOLDIER and NOT A POLITICIAN was explained in detail, I do not recall mentioning anything that suggested I thought otherwise ( as a matter of fact, I do not even recall mentioning his name in any type of capacity) Jefferson Davis and his wife DIDN'T watch an infant get brutally beaten by a full grown adult? WOW! That makes them, in what we like to call them in our uneducated circles, "Human Beings". The Hurricane Plantation was not "turned over" to their former slave, it was SOLD to him at what was said to be, a "very fair price". This, after he had run BOTH plantations for the Davis family for many many years in a CEO capacity, for the wages of a slave - $0 ! That was my only comment about that transaction, when I asked "What is the "fair price" for a plantation that one ran for free for many years? Doing the job of CEO of a major corporation, as running two plantations must have been like, making the Davis family very wealthy, while he made zero, adding generously to their wealth? What would be a "fair price" for that? As for the "bet you didn't know" informational portion of your reply, explaining how U.S. Grant had his prejudices, along with Lincoln and whoever else you mentioned, - doesn't have a darn thing to do with anything I commented on. Being a separatist still does not reach the level of thinking that it is ok to own another human being, AND NONE OF THAT had anything to do with the South succeeding from the Union to try to preserve slavery. What that was is the good 'ol fashioned "look - they did stuff just as bad" in an attempt to minimize one's own behavior. The North is mostly industrial and slaves are not needed in factories. They are needed on farms and plantations. The bottom line is that slavery was important to the South for one reason - cheap labor = more profits. The reason you just went into that well-worn recital of facts about the negative, racist things Northern folks did back then is the same reason people do it today - to defend and minimize a group or individuals actions, to make them appear as less than they were - in other words - damage control - or, taking it down one more rung on the ladder to the level of us uneducated fools - "sugar coatin' it!". I could go on, but i will wrap it up with this simple analogy. Slaves were here to provide labor for southern plantations. Of course, there are exceptions to everything, some probably had other jobs, etc. but the majority need for and reason for being here was southern plantation owners. No major labor costs = mighty high profits! The whole reason they started selling off the plantations and sold the Hurricane to the one former slave is pretty obvious, even to simpleminded folks like myself - THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY FOR THE LABOR NOW SO MUCH SMALLER PROFITS!!!!!! ( I'd be willing to bet the former slave didn't go out and hire a guy to run the plantation and consider himself a wealthy plantation owner - he continued to do the work himself ) I'm sure there are plenty of "decent" people who treated their slaves fairly well, but there were also plenty that did not. When you gauge your treatment of a human being on what the cost will be ( medical care, food, shelter, etc ) and look at their whole life as nothing but a spreadsheet that is another piece of machinery in your business, you will do things that are inhumane, whether you like it or not, especially if you see them as less than human. I don't think we live well together, but that is beside the point and had nothing to do with my comments. I think the whole world would be happier if everyone had their own "land". The cost and loss of productivity involved with the time that is spent making sure this group or that group isn't offended about this or that, lawsuits, sensitivity training and on and on is cutting our country's productivity in a major way - but, again, has nothing to do with what happened back in the 1860's, and doesn't mean I believe that any one race is better than another. It CERTAINLY does not mean that I think it is ok to own one. Comparing morality standards from then and now? They are no different. A lie is still a lie, integrity is still integrity and so on and so forth. What society "tolerates" may change, such as not having to send your unwed daughter off because she became pregnant , but it certainly isn't considered a good choice. Not that there were any punishments for the behaviors, anyway. It was nothing more than pointing fingers and condemning people. So, your assertion that I am a fool for holding those people to today's standards is incorrect. People will be evil if given the chance and approval is given, has been proven time and time again.( WW2?) "Everyone else was doing it, too!" is the battle cry for that behavior, you know, like our politicians today, and those back then, as you pointed out. GREED was the simple reason that plantation owners were able to find a valid reason to own other human beings and treat them as less than human. As for you and I - I've never owned any and I am assuming you have not, so I feel ZERO responsibility for any of the racist bullshit they spout nowadays. I wouldn't feel any responsibility even if my relatives had been a part of it, it was not me. Period. You southern folks should let that guilt go and quit defending your ancestors with all that gibberish. People make mistakes, we make enough of our own, without paying for ones previous generations made, because the bottom line is that the south succeeded from the Union because they thought they were going to have to give up slavery, and it was important enough to them to risk a civil war, and all of that happened because of GREED. PERIOD.
@johnfoster535
8 жыл бұрын
Jack Ripper ...yeah....sure. Explain the request made by Robert E. Lee to his Confederate government to allow the enlistment of black soldiers into the army, in return for their freedom, made WELL before the eventual approval in early 1865, when 40,000 blacks enlisted to fight for the South !! Surviving slaves who lived into the 20th century have been FILMED with sound saying that they were grateful to be in America, despite the harsh conditions of slavery, because they felt it was still BETTER than their former existence in Africa, and it offered a better future for their coming descendents. How about the " battle of the Crater " in Petersburg,VA when the black Union soldiers were surrounded inside that crater by rebel troops, and their OWN white UNION soldiers who were trapped with them BEGAN FIRING on the blacks in an effort to save themselves from the relentless fire of the Confederates. You don't here about THAT in school, do you ? There are MANY myths concerning the Civil War...however, TODAY, the evidence of its RESULT are CLEAR. Many black people have assimilated to become part of America and to contribute the country....some have been exemplary : the Tuskeegee airmen for example. However a great many have NOT, and it weighs the country DOWN with 10% of all black males in jail, with 50% high school dropout rate, with 75% of all black babies born to single mothers, with rampant gun violence and crime, with massive drug selling and use, etc. OTHER minority groups who faced serious discrimination in the U.S., WELL BEFORE there were laws against this, have risen to take part in American society. Now, America faces a SCOURGE of hostile Muslims coming in who have NO respect for our nation and do NOT belong here. Millions of illiterate Aztecs and Mayans fill our communities and tax their resources as well as produce rampant crime. Together with the situation in black ghettos, America is on the verge of falling, like ancient Rome. GOOD TIMES !!
@jackripper1518
8 жыл бұрын
Again, beautiful explanation of a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with the actual topic. Just because the slaves said being a slave was better than their homeland, are you saying that makes slavery ok? Lol - and, are you saying that since union soldiers shot at their own black soldiers, that makes slavery ok? Are you saying that FORCING black men to fight in a war to earn their freedom made slavery ok? Are you saying that FORCING black men to fight in a war to earn their freedom, in itself, was ok??? Are you saying that the Tuskogee Airmen, who didn't get the recognition for their sacrifices until many years later, made slavery ok? Are you now saying that because the black population seems to be more violent, crime-ridden, etc. at the present time, that slavery was ok back then? You make very simple mistakes that most people do - #1 - you assume that I defend the North, since I point out the horror of slavery. I do not care what the North did, either.I feel no responsibility for anyone's actions that I had nothing to do with, or any control over. So, you thinking that I am getting upset because of you pointing out the horrible stuff the North did, you would be mistaken. I'm sure everyone did horrible stuff, but this discussion was about slavery. #2 - you somehow believe that if you keep pointing out horrible things the North did, along with good things the South did, it somehow means slavery was ok, or detracts from the fact that it is wrong to own another human being. #3- you also seem to think that if you can slip things in there like "some slaves said it was better than being in their homeland" and the like, that you can actually make it seem as if the South was doing them a favor!!!!!! ( laughing ) and #4 - you say that our Country is falling, but you are not wrong about that. Our country is falling. BUT, it is because people do not like to look at things truthfully. The Politicians like to sugarcoat everything, try to make their opponent look horrible, and the sheep we have for a population will make their votes based on a 30 second commercial, all while ignoring the faults of their candidate because they take sides. Those sides allow politicians to get into office that are liars, cheats and frauds and that has snowballed over time to the mess we have today. Think this isn't the case? Let's see how long it takes you to to say it to yourself, believe it, not get offended by it, not try to minimize it with the faults of others, or the good things the South did, and just ACCEPT it - SLAVERY IS, WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE WRONG. Oops, I forgot to answer the Robert E. Lee question - I don't think it takes a lot of brain power to explain why a general would want to enlist as many men as he could to fight for his side, doing the grunt work, being put in harm's way, etc. If you told me "I have a group of people, thousands of them, that you don't give a darn about, but they will fight for your side and give you an advantage to win the war" I would take that deal, also. Not sure why you think that is something positive that Lee did. He offered it way before all the other stuff? That means he was smart, not that he liked the blacks. He was still trying to FORCE a group of human beings to fight for him to "earn" the right to live as any human being should be able to. By the way - if he had just given them their freedom without a war - THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO WAR!!!!!! So, to sum it all up - with all of the "points" you make, all of the "facts" you have thrown out - my original position was that slavery was wrong, the South benefited from, and made use of it the most, it caused them to secede from the Union in an attempt to preserve it and THAT was the cause of the Civil War. : ) Your educated, intelligent argument has failed to provide any meaningful rebuttal to my uneducated, shallow minded, fool's belief that slavery was wrong, lol. Go dig up some more "facts" that don't have any impact on, or change the fact, that slavery was wrong and I will continue to show you how it is completely irrelevant to the discussion.
@jenniferdavisbolin1085
Жыл бұрын
my great great great great UNCLE so proud!
@GeorgeVreelandHill
6 жыл бұрын
God bless the South.
@JTScott1988
4 жыл бұрын
For what
@BuckyBrown-lt4ry
4 жыл бұрын
@@JTScott1988 If you have to ask, you would not understand, stupid.
@JTScott1988
4 жыл бұрын
@@BuckyBrown-lt4ry to be freely racist again?
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
- home of slavery apologizing racists.
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
@C. Michael PLEASE DO secede. Take all your Bushmasters and your opioids and your cheap beer with you. No one will bother you this time.
@andrewprice1774
5 жыл бұрын
We southerners will argue for peace with all are strength but when war starts we'll fight with that same intensity
@Roadglide911
5 жыл бұрын
mayoforsam 51 may have lost then but give it a try now. Yankee soy boys won’t serve in the military because they might break a nail.
@burtvincent1278
4 жыл бұрын
This 72 year old yankee would have probably moved south had he lived back then. The right of states to leave the union was a Constitutional fact ran over by Lincoln. It truly was a war of Northern aggression.
@burtvincent1278
4 жыл бұрын
@greenmean1 lol
@burtvincent1278
4 жыл бұрын
@greenmean1 greenmean1 and Kristi are keyboard warriors coming to you from their mommas basement
@burtvincent1278
4 жыл бұрын
@greenmean1 sure,, I'm in southern Michigan, where are you?
@ThePiratemachine
4 жыл бұрын
Davis had such an amazing resemblance to Lincoln, as if two sides of the same coin fighting each other, but irrevocably joined. I wonder what would have happened if Abraham Lincoln had have accepted Jefferson Davis' peace overture? Maybe the war never would never have happened and Lincoln not assassinated. What a terrible fate for both families and all those who died on both sides and the people who were enslaved. His first wife Sarah was beautiful. I wonder at the terrible toll it must have taken on Jefferson Davis to realize he had made the decision to take his wife to where she caught malaria and then die and then face Colonel Taylor who opposed the marriage, even if he praised him later. I wonder how the slavery issue of The United States could have been resolved and whether we would have avoided what is happening today. This video should be entitled POISON CHALICE OF TWO PRESIDENTS.
@stevenlawson9460
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing this video none of this was taught in school that I can remember
@bradleydavis8997
4 жыл бұрын
believe it or not Jefferson Davis is my 7th great grandfather
@TheBatugan77
3 жыл бұрын
You have SEVEN great grandfathers? Wow! Your great-grandma...got around!
@johnnyscifi
7 жыл бұрын
He initially argued against secession, but felt honour bound to his state. This was a man of conviction!!!
@johnalanelson
5 жыл бұрын
I remember when Jimmy Carter restored citizenship to Jefferson Davis
@georgschmidt494
4 жыл бұрын
I am glad he did and believe President Jimmy Carter is a good Christian man. I didn't agree with is politics but that does not keep from respecting President Carter.
@michaelratliff905
4 жыл бұрын
Yessir, the ONLY thing he did, that was right as President for sure
@laserbeam002
4 жыл бұрын
@@michaelratliff905 He brokered a peace deal between Egypt and Israel. Is that not a good thing???
@cynthiaburrus3901
4 жыл бұрын
@@laserbeam002 Oh that work out well!!! Sadat paid with his life a few months later when he was assassinated.
@laserbeam002
4 жыл бұрын
@@cynthiaburrus3901 True but there has been peace between Israel and Egypt ever since and that's what is most important
@preachinoldschool5726
3 жыл бұрын
Is it just me or did Jefferson Davis look like Abe Lincoln's twin? Both were ironically President's at the same time.
@susactivities_
3 жыл бұрын
And both were from Kentucky
@maleexile9053
3 жыл бұрын
@@susactivities_ Lincoln was from Illinois
@susactivities_
3 жыл бұрын
@@maleexile9053 no he’s from Kentucky, look it up
@johnnall2523
5 жыл бұрын
God truly blessed us to have Jeff Davis as our President!
@randyeastman4500
5 жыл бұрын
you are a dem yeah
@johnjacobs6725
5 жыл бұрын
John Nall GOD blessed us Beautiful Black people even more so by allowing the Confederacy to fall into utter destruction!!!!! Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and the rest of those men of the Confederacy committed treason against the U.S.A. Thank GOD those idiotic, worthless statues of those Confederates were brought down!!!!! President Obama is 100% a better man, and positive role model than Jefferson Davis ever was!!!!!!!!!!
@bencaseyconner939
5 жыл бұрын
Jefferson Davis were a piece of shit a coward racist who should have Died in prison for treason
@Bushdid-hx1zc
4 жыл бұрын
Bencasey Conner He was not a coward your an absolute moron who has no idea what a coward is he was a hero in the Mexican war and a west point graduate also faught in the blackhawk war that is not “cowardice”
@Bushdid-hx1zc
4 жыл бұрын
John Jacobs Fuck off troll Really? Before the Confederacy Jefferson Davis was a hero in the Mexican war who won battles a west point graduate he got shot in the leg and back then people would die from infections from gunshot wounds but he kept on fighting through he also fought in the blackhawk war thats 10x better than pussy obummer
@Hollylivengood
5 жыл бұрын
There's an interesting Wikipedia about James Davis - James Limber Davis is his full name. Worth reading. Jefferson Davis knew the northern general who was coming to get him, and requested that, as James was going to be taken from them, that General Staton would take him and raise him which he did. There's information about James until he was in secondary education. So It's an amazing example of a pretty thoughtful man and some honorable people in a difficult situation. And not everything is easy to label.
@lymanmj
3 жыл бұрын
Holly. My little cactus flower - Hitler was an amazing public speaker and propagandist. He loved dogs. He treated Eva Braun well. Should we praise a video depicting these traits but leaving out the genocide? Jefferson Davis had the blood of hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens on his hands, including some 483,000 men of *The* *South* .
@eflint1
2 жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj Sorry, but it is LINCOLN that is more akin to Hitler than Davis ever will be. Lincoln was a murdering thug who represented northern financial interests only.
@teddyhaynes9876
Жыл бұрын
No mr Lincoln has that blood on his hands ! He is the one who raged war against half the country remember? Say I’m wrong
@BarbaraMarrs-xy7rc
2 ай бұрын
@@lymanmj Davie sent some Union soldiers to Lincoln pleading for him to allow medicines for the prisoners at Andersonville. Lincoln refused. The medicines were needed to save the Union prisoners lives. How many deaths is AL responsible for
@lymanmj
2 ай бұрын
@BarbaraMarrs-xy7rc Please explain exactly how Davis Sent UNION soldiers to get help for prisoners that DAVIS alone was responsible for desecrating, depriving, and ultimately *destroying* for no earthly reason.
@460rowland3
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent research and presentation. Jerry’s documentaries should be included in high school and college history courses!
@rollen901
2 жыл бұрын
Goes against there agenda. They never tell the other side of the story.
@SSNESS
2 жыл бұрын
Lincoln was killed on the 15th
@lymanmj
2 жыл бұрын
In 1865, Lincoln and some in his administration wanted the states to be united once again, in peace. He wanted the war wounds to heal and for us to move on past slavery to a just and peaceful society for all. Over the objections of others in his administration, he rejected the calls for Davis, Lee, and other Confederates to be hanged for treason - which, under the U.S. Constitution, he had every right to order. The hope was for the conflict to be forgotten, and for Southerners and African Americans to be integrated into U.S. society. Unfortunately, too much of the population of the South viewed the outcome of the Civil War as the Northern states attempting to impose their "way of life" on the South. If Southerners considered "no slavery" and "treating Black Americans as equal citizens" as a foreign way of life being forced on them, what does this say about their morality? The only "final authority" about Jefferson Davis, Lee, Forrest, et al, is morality - in my humble *opinion* . Now, 155 years later, for reasons that remain inscrutable to me, many Southerners do not accept the consequences of this conflict, despite the efforts of the Union to reunite the United States. Any balanced recounting of Jefferson Davis's life would include the atrocities and horrors he perpetrated on peaceful U.S. citizens as well as acts of kindness. The fact that Skinner's video skims over these "details" just characterizes his work as more whitewashing of Confederate traitors. Jackson and Lee undoubtedly would have been top notch military men if they had fought on the side of the Union. Instead, they surrendered only after sending tens of thousands of poor White men to their premature deaths, for the cause of maintaining the subjugation and forced labor of kidnapped peoples. Without all of this "South Shall Rise Again" indoctrination of young people, without the Confederate statues funded and erected by the KKK and other racists groups, without the inexplicable holding onto the past, the South would today be far more integrated into a forward-looking 21st century society rather than a backward-looking culture nostalgic for the day when its economy was based on free labor. Independent-thinking people see no value in this sentimentality towards Confederates. We welcome Southerners and ex-racists with open arms the very moment they disown their immoral past. No judgements of any kind are passed. The uphill battle here is that when children are inculcated with this irrational prejudice long before they have a chance to develop critical thinking skills, most of them will never open their minds. In the comments here on this embarrassing work of Confederate propaganda by Skinner, is more evidence of the truth of this statement than could ever be concocted.
@rmp7400
Жыл бұрын
@WoodstockSnoopy Killed by Freemasons... because he insisted on an American gold-based greenback that was not controlled by the Central Bankers of London (who had invested in both sides and even provoked the US Civil War, btw.... England has NEVER been our friend...)
@eatshit2863
5 жыл бұрын
Davis and Lincoln look like brothers.
@JohnWhite-si4xc
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you ever so much Sir for the great history listen of the life of Jefferson Davis
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
"...history listen"..."Sir". *This* is the apparent educational level of people who buy into the kind of shameless whitewashing that Jerry Skinner, among many others, attempt to pull off simply to make money with their appeals to the base fears and prejudices of low-information folks.
@jameseverett9037
4 жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj - oh looky....yet another bitter comment from virtue-man lie-man, parading and promoting hatred in order to claim to be against hatred.
@lymanmj
3 жыл бұрын
@@jameseverett9037 Bitter? Against racism? Against U.S. citizens who attempt, in their feeble bigoted way, to excuse or glorify a misguided monster who had the blood of > 483,000 *Southern* men on his hands, for the cosmically *immoral* purpose of retaining the free forced labor of enslaved and abused people to prop up the economy of the 11 rebel states? Against the shameless whitewashing by Jerry Skinner of this sad and ugly chapter in our history? Damn skippy, James.
@teddyhaynes9876
Жыл бұрын
Oh shutup pussy , the south was just trying to live a free life instead they got invaded by domestic enemies , I’ve read letters from that time and hardly ever does it mention slavery as the main issue that’s a fact big boy . Look at this shit hole country now hahahah , things was way way way better back in the mid 1800s and early 1900s , now all you see is victim mentalities everywhere and virtue signaling like you
@gregtennessee8249
Жыл бұрын
Trump Lost the Confederacy Lost hahahahaha
@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr
5 жыл бұрын
I never knew that Jefferson Davis was the son-in-law of a US president! Fascinating and well done documentary!
@whitneyforte4223
5 жыл бұрын
Gods2ndFavoriteBassPlyr he was also a president himself! At the same time as Abraham Lincoln his half brother!
@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr
5 жыл бұрын
@@whitneyforte4223 - I've heard that theory before. So far I am not overwhelmingly convinced.
@robertcompton5232
Жыл бұрын
he looks a lot like my grandfather, Jesse Davis from Tennessee. I heard from my aunt that somehow we are related, but I don't have any info. As someone who loves history, I wish I knew.
@keithwolfe1942
Жыл бұрын
Yes, each state must have the right to withdraw from the union. I hope this never happens. It could be messy if any state withdrew, but that right must always be intact.
@hersheybar8987
8 жыл бұрын
Mr. Skinner....Thanks for sharing. I love history, especially Southern history. With much love & respect from the Heart of Dixie...Alabama.
@JerrySkinner1943
8 жыл бұрын
+hershey bar Same here from Mississippi. Jerry
@bencaseyconner939
5 жыл бұрын
Mr skinner didn't do anything but white wash shit the best history buff would DR henry louis gates he'll tell it like it. Is you sould have tone to documentary it was reconstruction and he told it like it is
@melodyjordan6052
5 жыл бұрын
@@bencaseyconner939 Please speak English so we all can understand you.
@JTScott1988
4 жыл бұрын
Basically this was white washed history. This man was VILE. EVIL. hes much better forgotten much like the history of the South. Racism is not cool.
@yearounder
4 жыл бұрын
@@bencaseyconner939 Along with history, you need to learn how to spell and write a proper sentence. Ignorance at it's peak.
@reynosa9891
2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating story of a man more understood than any other and along with Lincoln his name will forever be tied together as the face of the Civil War. While Lee was respected as a fallen hero after the War, Davis was regarded as a coward and was blamed for the South's loss by many of his own people
@lymanmj
Жыл бұрын
Lee knew better. He made a decision to fight for the side that felt it needed to continue to base its economy on the free labor of kidnapped, tortured, enslaved human beings. Moral people consider this to be *immoral* .
@hensonlaura
Жыл бұрын
I've no doubt there was a great deal of propaganda against him coming from the north.
@9thGenerationCajun
5 жыл бұрын
Would love to know if Jim Davis had children and if his ancestors are alive today.
@rollen901
2 жыл бұрын
Jeff or Jim. Jeff has one decedent that I k ow of. Name is jenne
@bethparker1500
Жыл бұрын
His 2nd wife appears to be also lovely and racially mixed. I wonder if they had hassles, on top of all the beautiful deceased children.
@valkillion6869
7 жыл бұрын
Nicely done. Just a FYI - in 1892, Winnie Davis was Queen of the Mystick Krewe of Comus, New Orleans oldest Mardi Gras krewe.
@johnathanreynolds9140
7 жыл бұрын
Jerry, your awesome for collecting and gathering this info!
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
Disgusting, Jonathan.
@lymanmj
3 жыл бұрын
Johnathan, "you're" English reflects your level of education - for all to see here.
@hightea2546
5 жыл бұрын
You make history come alive,, thank you Sir!!!
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
"History"? Seriously?
@susactivities_
3 жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj yes.
@lymanmj
3 жыл бұрын
@@susactivities_ Get help. Or don't. SMH
@susactivities_
3 жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj HMS
@chuckmitchell4608
5 жыл бұрын
Loved this Story ,although l'm a Yankee and Civil War buff much respect is owed to my Confederate brothers who fought so hard and valiantly with so little!keep up the good work.
@waynedavis936
5 жыл бұрын
Chuck Mitchell Nice to hear that some people will give credit to the bravery, suffering and fighting spirit of the Americans from the South during the Civil War. Times were different then and duty to your State was often thought to be more important than to the Nation. Most Southerners fought for their homeland, felt they had the right to succeed and the right to keep slaves was of little importance to them. They fought with honor, even though it was a losing cause and deserve the respect that very few now days afford them except for persons like you and I. R.W. Davis USN retired. P.S. Sad but true, the war didn't really need to be fought, so sad.
@melodyjordan6052
5 жыл бұрын
@@waynedavis936 Thank you. I believe with all my heart that the soldiers of the South should never be disrespects as they are being today. It breaks my heart to see all this stupidity and hatred.
@buttkid3548
5 жыл бұрын
@@melodyjordan6052 how are they being disrespect? You're raged over something that isn't happening. Most of these statues were put up 50 years, or later after the war.
@buttkid3548
5 жыл бұрын
@@melodyjordan6052 I assume your referring to the statues. And you should also be aware that those statues make some people really uncomfortable. Fellow citizens. For what? I love history. My dad was/is a civil buff, so I grew up going to battlefields, and civil war era houses. Re-enactments. I don't recall any statues.
@zhongyunjiang248
4 жыл бұрын
@@melodyjordan6052 I
@whiterider1414
4 жыл бұрын
VARINA DAVIS IS ACTUALLY PRETTY HOT LOL.. OH YEAH, GREAT STORY AND DOCUMENTARY AS WELL! Lol 🤓
@rogerborroel4707
2 жыл бұрын
We know one thing when he was captured, he was wearing a women's shawl and dress! How exciting this dope was!
@jamietidwell6941
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad someone can tell the truth. And the passion he and his family really was . I'm from Tennessee I'm 1/2native american and my family was farmers. They fought for there land they didn't have slave's. I don't know why they don't tell the truth in history about people. He new we couldn't win the war but he was fighting for the south and that was our history.
@lymanmj
Жыл бұрын
Are you OK with Davis's murderous side? From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
@jibrinebang
2 жыл бұрын
Well done, just facts no opinions 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@derekbyrne3494
8 жыл бұрын
Always admired that man. The cause of the South is blemished today. Sometimes rightly; and often wrongly under shortsightedness. I'm not an American, but have read a lot about this wonderful country. I'm afraid that its true history is being airbrushed out of truth.
@rollen901
2 жыл бұрын
Go read Brian kilmeades Abraham and the freedom fighter. Tells two sides of a story.
@rwmartin1482
3 жыл бұрын
While portrayed righteous he was the head of the snake...right is right wrong is wrong.
@LkOutMtnMan
8 жыл бұрын
Andersonville was plight of the famine that swept the South toward the end of the war. The years took a toll on the farmlands since able bodied men who normally worked the farms went off to war thinking it would be over quickly. Sherman burned thousands of acres and the supply of beef from Texas was cut off from the west by Union forces after Vicksburg. Many were starving in the South not just prisoners at Andersonville.
@BarbaraMarrs-xy7rc
2 ай бұрын
Lincoln's order to scorch earth the south was carried out by Sherman, Sheridan and Grant. Black, white houses burned, women raped, children starving, it did not matter.
@mrd.6594
7 жыл бұрын
RIP President Jefferson Davis...."I WORKED DAY AND NIGHT FOR 12 YEARS TO PREVENT THE WAR, BUT I COULD NOT...THE NORTH WAS MAD AND BLIND, WOULD NOT LET US GOVERN OURSELVES, AND SO THE WAR CAME....RIP Mr President......The South will always love you....
@donnarusk1298
4 жыл бұрын
You are part of the u.s.a in case you had not noticed so thats that
@kathyhyde8404
3 жыл бұрын
Yes. States rights. The north took away from citizens.
@hackedagain2
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating history of a great man and his remarkable strength, dedication, and service to our country and Southern Heritage. Thank you for all the accurate information within this video. It should have been taught in public schools the man President Davis was and hishe dedication. Our Southern heritage can never be erased nor the sacrifices our ancestors endured. Thank you!
@iamjustsaying4787
Жыл бұрын
@Wyn Sharp Jefferson Davies sold out his country for his boyfriend Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 - May 6, 1884) was a United States senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Where he grew very rich very quickly.
@earlcampbell7705
Жыл бұрын
Southern Heritage is one of lazy bastardism.
@earlcampbell7705
Жыл бұрын
Sacrifices of ancestors. Now that's funny.
@hackedagain2
Жыл бұрын
@@iamjustsaying4787 That is fine but if you do not reside in The USA then you have not sat in an AMERICAN HISTORY CLASS. You can think anything you want and have an individual opinion. That is the beauty of freedom. Nothing of the above opinion sounds even remotely decernable. Not one word of it. I live in the South and anyone with a brain knows History is written--in part-by the victors.
@hensonlaura
Жыл бұрын
@@hackedagain2 they are granting you the freedom to think EXACTLY AS THEY DO, lol! Unbelievable how ignorant well-educated people can be.
@YG1989Natty
Жыл бұрын
And there is Benjamin franklin, fascinating the things that have recently come out about him!!
@allenschmitz9644
Жыл бұрын
Yep, no law against a State from succeeding from the union so let that sink in.
@dawittywats1934
3 жыл бұрын
I descend from Robert Toombs, the Secretary of State under Davis. The story of the Civil War and the deep division between the state is far more complicated than we have turned it into. Far more complex than we give any of them credit for. For example, a number is southern states voted against separation and many land owners in the North had slaves. Lincoln didn’t care about releasing slaves as much as forcing the south into submission.
@Mr2pizzle
Жыл бұрын
All Southern states that were able to have an election voted overwhelmingly for independence except Missouri. A super majority (two thirds majority) was needed to pass legislation in a constitutional convention. The people elected delegates to the secession conventions from slates of secessionist candidates versus unionist candidates. The first to vote independence from the US was South Carolina. All 169 of the seats went to secessionist (independence candidates). Unionists in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana didn't try to run unionist candidates. Only Immediate Secessionist vs. Co-operative Secessionists. Co-operative Secessionists were for all Southern states becoming independent from the US together. In Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas people decided on independence by voting for secessionist vs unionist candidates AND another direct, popular vote election where the people got a chance to vote directly on independence. In the direct election Virginia voted 80% for independence - 90% - without the West Virginia counties. In Richmond only three people voted against Virginia's independence. The two Van Lew brothers, who were the largest slave owners in Richmond, and a newspaper editor. The people of Tennessee and North Carolina voted 67% for secession. Don't know Arkansas's vote but it was above the super majority needed. Texas voted 75% for independence. Texas entered the Union 16 years previously with the promise from the US that Texas could secede at anytime. Kentucky had a grassroots popular election but that just got Kentucky invaded by the US army. Lincoln sat in his capital, Washington DC, a city with over 3,100 slaves, and ordered the invasion not of New Jersey, which had slaves but was called a "free state" because it had gradual emancipation, but Arizona Territory (where slavery was illegal) when the people of Arizona voted to secede and "join their fellow Southerners". The desire for independence from the US by Southerners was overwhelming.
@lymanmj
Жыл бұрын
@@Mr2pizzle So, Mike, how did this- and how is this - working out for the prior slave states? Take a glance at how these states stack up against the rest of the U.S. in educational achievement, personal income, health, mortality, infant mortality, and economic success.
@tr7b410
Жыл бұрын
Submission,¿is not the word I would use.Unity=united we stand-divided we fall,was his template for his tutorial on democracy. Unfortunately now we are seeing how certain states who are moving away from that philosophy will again divide this country based on ideologies.
@teddyhaynes9876
Жыл бұрын
This time it’s black people who are far more racist than whites now days , that’s a fact
@robertsettle2590
Жыл бұрын
@@Mr2pizzle NOPE you're wrong about Missouri.
@sadhvacman7238
7 жыл бұрын
He had a sad and troubled life. The more I learn about Jefferson Davis, the more admirable I find him to be. History has painted an inaccurate picture of the real Jefferson Davis. He is not the villian, that public school history has made him out to be over the last 150 years.
@rongendron8705
4 жыл бұрын
Being age 73 & a lifelong history & trivia buff, i really love how you are able to get so much new & relativlely unknown facts about celebrities! You also present them in an unbiased fashion, letting the viewers decide for themselves, what to think about the personality! Thanks again!
@DigitalWraith
4 жыл бұрын
You mean white washing? Yeah I see how some would appreciate that.
@DigitalWraith
4 жыл бұрын
It's even easier to spot the inane who use words they don't know the meaning of. 😉
@lymanmj
4 жыл бұрын
"Unbiased", Ron? Seriously? How can anyone possibly write about the leader of a seditionist movement that caused the deaths of over 655,000 people and the serious wounding of over 194,000 Southerners between 1861 and 1865 without mentioning that this misguided "leader" simply lead U.S. citizens, most of whom could have no direct benefit from their traitorous acts, to their premature graves, over nothing more than the right to own and exploit slaves? The Kool-Aid that slavery apologists have drunk and that they continue to drink is embarrassing, disappointing, and just plainly obscene. What is so difficult about admitting that Davis was a *traitor*, and will be, first foremost, and forever, a *traitor* *to* *the* *United States* ?
@aqjt8
4 жыл бұрын
How can absence of bias about slavery and those who died promoting it be a good thing?
@michaellovetere8033
3 жыл бұрын
@@aqjt8 As a self-proclaimed liberal, who hasn't been affected in any way, directly or indirectly, from the past history of this country, what do you propose ? reparations?
@kennedymcgovern5413
4 жыл бұрын
His second wife is black...at least partially. You can see that just by looking at the pictures.
@melwilliford2492
2 жыл бұрын
I read a book n they caught him near my home n then sent him to Washington n protected him at least that what I read
@Pointlessnothingness
8 жыл бұрын
Sir, You are a wonderful story teller. Thank you so much. Graham Daw Yorkshire in the U.K
@JerrySkinner1943
8 жыл бұрын
+Graham Daw Thank you Graham, My doctor keep asking me to do a video on Richard Harris. They are both from Ireland. Guess that is why. Jerry
@Pointlessnothingness
8 жыл бұрын
Jerry Skinner My profession is actor and so was my Aunt who died some years ago. She worked with Richard Harris in the 1960s in a film called This Sporting Life. Anyway, thanks for your reply. I will continue to watch your productions. If ever you want to contact me for any information regarding England, you will find me on Twitter under GRAHAMDAWACTOR. God Bless Graham Daw
@JerrySkinner1943
8 жыл бұрын
+Graham Daw Thanks Graham. Jerry
@JerrySkinner1943
8 жыл бұрын
+Jerry Skinner Graham, i just watched your screen test and i have to say it was very good. That is why you are an actor and i am not my friend. You are very very good. Jerry
@Pointlessnothingness
8 жыл бұрын
Jerry Skinner That is kind...thank you. Take care Jerry. Best Wishes Graham
@tiredlawdog
5 жыл бұрын
Shades of Sam Houston, he was very much against Texas seceding from the union.
@Wacbot
4 жыл бұрын
tiredlawdog, SH resigned as governor because he would not swear allegiance to the Confederacy.
@Wacbot
4 жыл бұрын
@John Saunders, you are very correct. I researched and now see that Houston, Travis, Austin and other "heroes" were not the best of men. Different ways, different times does not make wrongs okay. Thank you.
@lymanmj
3 жыл бұрын
@@Wacbot These men and Davis were bad actors even by the flaccid moral standards of their times. Morality had little meaning, if any, to them. Yet, Jerry Skinner, not unlike Nazi apologists, wants us to look only at the few human characteristics of the man. So what's next, Jerry? A video about how Hitler loved dogs? How well he treated Eva Braun? As a senior citizen, it can be disheartening to me to read comments here from so many people who seem to love this propaganda piece. Sad.
@Wacbot
3 жыл бұрын
@@lymanmj I hear ya. Thanks for the view.
@lovernotfighter
5 жыл бұрын
He seems like a very honorable man, todays politicians could learn a lot from his example, his ethics and honesty.
@conorhurley7613
4 жыл бұрын
He was also a horrible racist tho
@nunya2954
4 жыл бұрын
@Ron - Shut up you ignoramus. The war was because the South wanted to secede from the North. Get back in school dolt.
@JTScott1988
4 жыл бұрын
@@nunya2954 it had everything to do with slavery. The south wanted to secede because slavery was being outlawed and it was the entirety of the souths economy. They coulda continued it themselves but were FAR too lazy to do the work. It was entirely about slavery.
@acdragonrider
4 жыл бұрын
Nun Ya all of you shut up and learn to dialogue politely and in a civil manner
@acdragonrider
4 жыл бұрын
Laquinton Wagner It was about slavery but they were still human beings and we should look at them impartially and objectively. The way everyone looks at the past now is from a lens of political correctness and such a critical way that it astounds me. All of the historians I know don’t talk the way you even if their subjects were on the wrong side of history. One of my favorite historians said “the mission of the historian is not to judge but analyze understand and explain.”
@jrippee05
5 жыл бұрын
You're missing a fact.....his wife....was part black.
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