This is a updated version of “There’s No Excuse for Slavery” which was released on July 3rd, 2018. Enjoy!

The planters of the South believed that slavery had grown up with American society and its’ institutions. John C. Calhoun argued that slavery was a “positive good” because he believed that no well-off society existed in which “one portion of the community did not in point of fact, live on the labor of the other”. How did beliefs like these and those of Calhoun’s followers further split the Union?

How could a man like Jefferson at once declare all humanity’s equal, natural rights and yet hold hundreds of people in bondage? What was state-made racism? Who were the beneficiaries of slavery? Who were the Quakers and how did they influence the anti-slavery movement? What is the argument of slavery as a “positive good”? Who really was John C. Calhoun?

Further Reading:

John C. Calhoun and Slavery as a “Positive Good:” What He Said, written by Clyde Wilson

John C. Calhoun: He Started the Civil War, written by Civil War Times

Music by Kai Engel

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Libertarians and the Confederacy, by Jason Kuznicki

Why “Libertarian” Defenses of the Confederacy and “States’ Rights” are Incoherent, written by Jonathan Blanks

Kansas Changes Everything, Liberty Chronicles Episode

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