Scotty J Presents: The Civil War

The Kansas Nebraska Act destroyed the Missouri Compromise, opening the territories to slavery. But the fighting that happened in Kansas should have been a warning to the fighting that would happen in 1861. SOURCES: Nicole Etcheson. Bleeding Kansas Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2004.

How does the Mexican-American War, Dred Scott and the Lincoln Douglas debates figure into the cause of the Civil War?

How did the rise of abolition threaten the world of the planter elite? Was theirs a noble calling or a misguided attempt to make a white nation? SOURCES: J.D. Dickey. The Republic of Violence The Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson's America. New York: Pegasus Books. 2022. Frederick Douglas. Selected Works of Frederick Douglas. New York: Fall River Press. 2017. Kerri Greenridge. The...

How did the Missouri Compromise bring the issue of slavery to the forefront of U.S. Politics? And what did President James Monroe do behind the scenes to make this happen? SOURCES: Time McGrath. James Monroe A Life. New York: Random House. 2020.

To say that slavery was not the cause of the Civil War is to do it injustice. Today I take a brief look at the history of slavery and how it was practiced in Antebellum society. SOURCES: Hugh Thomas. The Slave Trade The Story of the Atlantice Slave Trade: 1440-1870. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1997. Ira Berlin. Many Thousands Gone The First Two Centuries odf Slavery in North America. Cambridge:...

A brief message about the show

A new Civil War podcast is dropping on April 14, 2024. Unreconstructed takes a look at the war, the causes, and Reconstruction.