The Rise of Cotton: Crash Course Black American History #13

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Cotton is everywhere in our modern world, and it became a hugely important crop in the 19th century United States. Cotton was a huge economic boon to the US, and much of that wealth was built on the backs of enslaved laborers. And cotton didn't only benefit the states where slavery was legal. While cotton was mainly grown in the southern states, much of that cotton was processed in northern textile mills. Today we'll learn about the growth of the cotton industry, who benefitted from it, and who was left out.
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VIDEO SOURCES
-Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 2014.
-Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Penguin Books, 2014.
-Eugene Dattel, Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power. Lanham, MD: Ivan R Dee, 2009.
-Adam Rothman, Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.
-www.history.com/topics/invent...
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@aarongrooves 2 жыл бұрын

This series seriously kicks butt. I love it! Grateful for your dedication and commitment to this!

@mrcead 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine how better off America would be if black Americans were allowed economic participation after reconstruction at least

@mr.michael169 2 жыл бұрын

Please put this in our history books 🙏🏼

@TaliaOutwrong 2 жыл бұрын

I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this series. Each week it gives me something to reflect on, and helps me to understand the world I live in. Such a wonderful resource.

@toddground 2 жыл бұрын

4 Million human beings work were worth much more than all the machinery in the USA. It is almost like the workers hold the means of production and without them nothing can be build, cultivated, cooked or sold.

@littlehouseinthebigapple5716 2 жыл бұрын

There’s a great book “The Half has Never Been Told” that discusses the economics of slavery and wealth creation in America.

@bertjm36 2 жыл бұрын

Well done episode & series. It's important to add that the rise of industrial capitalism in the 19th century, which was centered in the textile mills of England, could not have happened unless it was jump started by the imported American cotton that was so cheap because the labor costs for the enslaved people who produced it were so low. Two forms of exploiting labor - one even worse than the other - intersecting & reinforcing one another.

@joeschillchannel1894 Жыл бұрын

Great historical information. As a teacher, I am more than happy to share this with my students. These facts need to be shared.

@reedkellner6447 2 жыл бұрын

It's incredible to know that this will be the first time some people watching this will have gotten the chance to learn these basic facts about our nation's history. It's a great first step.

@georgieporgie8883 2 жыл бұрын

I am not American but found this very interesting

@regularrae5961 Жыл бұрын

This is...by far the hardest episode for me to digest. Keep in mind, I'm following the whole series already which has been nothing short of knowledgable yet grueling. But, to really examine and to put into context how much African Americans/Enslaved Africans helped build not only this economy and country...but a good chunk of Europe's and overall the worlds? We have been beyond short-handed. It motivates me like no other to make sure I'm putting money into my community, my family, and myself; thus working hard for the legacy my ancestors were never able to see. Just..yeah, beyond blessed you all are creating these, yet my heart is so heavy for the ripple effects this inhumane system created.

@mraj8372 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Clint. I'm grateful to learn more about this period of history. You're a great teacher.

@fergimedia 2 жыл бұрын

So grateful to you for making these ~ crash course videos , so informative and educational. My boys actually like watching these. 🥰 Lotsa love from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

@SlowToe 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant and chilling in it's delivery and content.

@markkuiper7380 2 жыл бұрын

I hope this series wil also include the tuskegee pilots

@malachichampion 2 жыл бұрын

"It really doesn't get more clear than that"

@NatSenju101 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this series!!! Keep up the great work

@LeeSaMcGhee Жыл бұрын

Playing on the smartboard ALL YEAR LONG in the library from this day forward. Thanks!

@grapeshot 2 жыл бұрын

Yes they didn't call Cotton king for nothing.

@kareemyounge9939 2 жыл бұрын

damn I wonder why this series gets the highest amount of dislikes?

@baronfranklin3968 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, Sir, more please..

@k3n0ju 2 жыл бұрын

I am really appreciative of this deep dive into US history. Thanks so much!

@evanrogers503 2 жыл бұрын

This is an amazing series, thank you!!!

@catherinen8547 2 жыл бұрын

Amen, brother Clint.

@Just2gofoods Жыл бұрын

Generational wealth is a topic of interest to me. I recently bought a home for myself and children and am so glad I did. Great Video series!👍🏿

@caliconservative20 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for bringing facts forward.

@chriszorander9333 Жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks. It's also a very good reminder for today, when so many in the Western world benefit from the exploitative labour in other regions of the world. How much of production in wealthy countries today is built on the backs of hardworking people who see little to no profit?

@nswanberg 2 жыл бұрын

The cotton gin extended slavery.:(

@admiralsuperior3 2 жыл бұрын

Great video series

@rhiannaloguidice9128 Жыл бұрын

Really learned a lot from this video

@chamilitary07 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. You are showing accurate history of America.

@mrblue251 2 жыл бұрын

I watch this from South Carolina

@todayicelebrateme 18 күн бұрын

I just came across this channel! Excellent

@JTorres193 Жыл бұрын

Buen Trabajo, le encanto a mis estudiantes. Especialmente a Geronimo y a Ivan

@alexanderf.7232 4 ай бұрын

Very informative video! Thank you

@meechiedagoat3313 2 жыл бұрын

Good video

@heyelliew 2 жыл бұрын

Whenever I talk with anyone who says "Democrats are to blame for slavery" and I feel I have to explain (gestures broadly) all of 17th to 20th century history basically back to them... its exhausting. Hopefully just sending them this video will help. Thank you for this series!!!

@koksallce6750 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@pattencycling Жыл бұрын

Thank you nice video

@pipodeschoen8308 2 жыл бұрын

Why the dislikes? This stuff is good!

@Awesoooooomeness 2 жыл бұрын

This series is so important!!!!!!!!!

@fadedxd69 9 ай бұрын

"Wish we could turn back time" 👴🏻

@africanhistory 3 ай бұрын

Sowell might disagree on that gap. It can be closed. And it is closing with Married African American couples who are educated.

@RL-cp1cx Жыл бұрын

Watching on my iphone

@mediocrely_extraordinary0246 Жыл бұрын

This should be mandatory

@africanhistory 3 ай бұрын

Reparations NOW!

@taylor- 2 жыл бұрын

@gregrobinette8620 Жыл бұрын

Ashame this had to be seperated into "black history", this is American history! No hate, I love these but scared for the ones I havent watched; if theyre factual, we rarely see that, I liked all the ones i've seen so far! History needs to be learned from, as it always repeats itself, sad people tell me to forget it on here, on KZfaq.

@antonbeats9777 Жыл бұрын

Slavery has happened all over the words. The Arabs enslaved Africans, the British enslaved the Slavic people, the Persians and Turks enslaved the Armenian Georgian Caucasians, the Africans themselves enslaved different African tribes.

@trevonvicente7327 Жыл бұрын

I mean yeah that’s true and all, but our focus on this video is on Black American History and the Origin of cotton. Your statement is true about slavery happening around the world, but it’s irrelevant to the topic here.

@youdontknowjoejo Жыл бұрын

Yes slavery happened all over the world. But race based, generational, chattel slavery done for economic reasons. Was done in the US. People who make the “everyone did slavery” argument are missing the point.

@edwinamendelssohn5129 Жыл бұрын

@@youdontknowjoejo evidence please

@stalkerwithapinkhat2788 Жыл бұрын

What’s the point here?

@johnhenry4844 Жыл бұрын

@@youdontknowjoejo Pretty sure arab slavery of Africans was enslavement based

@ShroomedMisterCraft Жыл бұрын

We should pay the value of the country forward to those who built it all for us. Natives get money in their 18th birthday for certain land values, and I think taxes should support black ppl. Our literal whole thing was set up by enslaved humans, soo...

@shellysorina9511 Жыл бұрын

I need some help from someone I can trust

@NoahBodze Жыл бұрын

If you gathered all the cotton produced in America from 1600 until the slaves were freed, the it would sell for $26 billion altogether at today’s prices. That’s the gross for all of it, not the net. The profit would be about $3 billion. That’s the MOST you can attribute to their worth because all blacks did was pick a lot of it; they didn’t refine it, ship it, establish trade routes, develop the infrastructure and machinery, etc. none of the slaves had seen cotton or even wore proper clothes until another African captured them and stole them to Europeans. 25 times more cotton has been produced in America since. Why don’t we talk about that? Henry Ford. Carnegie. Rockefeller. Each of these men were singularly more important than the slaves that arrived in America in their history. Those are the men that built America. Focus on them. We are rich and free because of them and because we had SO LITTLE SLAVERY in the United States, not too much.