{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation Part Three: Slavery and Human Rights","description":"American slavery may have been the most successful totalitarian system in history, lasting ten generations, far longer than comparable 20th century totalitarian regimes. In some ways, slavery's success as an economic and socio-political system was that it was just brutal enough to generate effective rates of return on investment. But it became even more brutal from the beginning of the 19th century to the Civil War, in part in response to slave rebellions, and to the attacks on the institution made by abolitionists. In part three of our six part episode on Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, we analyze the economic institution of slavery as practiced in the Antebellum South, and its consequences for the black and white people that lived in it. And borrowing from the American writer James Baldwin, we try and understand why this institution led to so many racial attitudes that informed Lincoln's time--and our own. Part 3: Slavery and Human Rights Audio Clips: James Baldwin, \u201cYou\u2019re the Nigger\u201d (1963): https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=My5FLO50hNM Music Clips: \u201cLong John,\u201d Prisoners of Darrington State Prison Farm, Texas (1933\/34?): https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4G5KtQynWvc \u201cSt. Louis Blues,\u201d Bessie Smith (1929): https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Bo3f_9hLkQ \u201cI Be So Happy When The Sun Goes Down,\u201d Ed Lewis: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C-zlSq4mWiE \u201cCC Rider Blues,\u201d Ma Rainey (1924): https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=trtxZgF3Dns \u201cEarly in the Mornin\u2019,\u201d Prisoners of Parchman Farm, Louisiana (1947): https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zsiYfk5RV_Q \u201cBerta, Berta,\u201d Prisoners of Parchman Farm, Louisiana (1947):https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eWWgN7837Tk \u201cStackolee,\u201d Woody Guthrie (1944): https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ccgyJQJEMsM Bibliography: Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made (Vintage, 1976) Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese, Slavery in Black and White: Race and Class in the Southern Slaveholders\u2019 New World Order (Cambridge, 2008) Frederick Law Olmstead, The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861 (1861; Bedford\/St. Martin\u2019s 2014) Calvin Schermerhorn, The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860 (Yale, 2015) George Fitzhugh, Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters (1857; Kindle, 2015) Mary Chesnut, Mary Chesnut\u2019s Civil War (1981; edited by C. Vann Woodward) J.H. Ingraham, The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. (1835; Kindle, 2017) Sally Hadden, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (Harvard University Press, 2001) Richard Blackett, Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery (University of North Carolina Press, 2013) ","author_name":"Executive Decision","author_url":"http:\/\/executivedecision.libsyn.com\/website","html":"