Comments on: Civil War Memory Turns Four http://cwmemory.com/2009/11/04/civil-war-memory-turns-four/ Where History, Heritage, and Education Intersect Thu, 24 May 2012 14:23:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Heather http://cwmemory.com/2009/11/04/civil-war-memory-turns-four/#comment-12874 Heather Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:36:36 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=5341#comment-12874 Happy blogiversary, Kevin! Happy blogiversary, Kevin!

]]> By: margaretdblough http://cwmemory.com/2009/11/04/civil-war-memory-turns-four/#comment-12875 margaretdblough Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:52:30 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=5341#comment-12875 Kevin-First and foremost congratulations and happy anniversary! I do admire so much of Ayers' work but, in his recent writings, I think he gets so involved in nuance that he loses focus. I thought I knew more than the average non-professional on the subject, but when I read Don E. Fehrenbacher's "The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery" (completed & edited after his death by his former student Ward M. McAfee), I was stunned at how pervasive the effect was of the Peculiar Institution and the struggles to deal with it on the nation from its birth to the Civil War. Madison, in the debates in the Constitutional Convention, identified the primary cause of division among states as North/South (not size) principally due to whether or not a state had slavery. In the twenty years before the war, one Protestant denomination after another experienced total schism over slavery. Some of those breaches have never closed, although they've been acknowledged. <BR><BR>The impact of the Peculiar Institution was complex but the cause boils down to the dilemma that both the friends and the enemies of the American Revolution identified as its greatest weakness from the beginning: how can a nation founded on the principle of natural rights for every human being tolerate enslavement at all much less enslavement that begins at birth because the baby was born to a slave or slaves?</BR></BR> Kevin-First and foremost congratulations and happy anniversary! I do admire so much of Ayers' work but, in his recent writings, I think he gets so involved in nuance that he loses focus. I thought I knew more than the average non-professional on the subject, but when I read Don E. Fehrenbacher's “The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery” (completed & edited after his death by his former student Ward M. McAfee), I was stunned at how pervasive the effect was of the Peculiar Institution and the struggles to deal with it on the nation from its birth to the Civil War. Madison, in the debates in the Constitutional Convention, identified the primary cause of division among states as North/South (not size) principally due to whether or not a state had slavery. In the twenty years before the war, one Protestant denomination after another experienced total schism over slavery. Some of those breaches have never closed, although they've been acknowledged.

The impact of the Peculiar Institution was complex but the cause boils down to the dilemma that both the friends and the enemies of the American Revolution identified as its greatest weakness from the beginning: how can a nation founded on the principle of natural rights for every human being tolerate enslavement at all much less enslavement that begins at birth because the baby was born to a slave or slaves?

]]> By: Heather http://cwmemory.com/2009/11/04/civil-war-memory-turns-four/#comment-12035 Heather Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:36:36 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=5341#comment-12035 Happy blogiversary, Kevin! Happy blogiversary, Kevin!

]]> By: margaretdblough http://cwmemory.com/2009/11/04/civil-war-memory-turns-four/#comment-12032 margaretdblough Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:52:30 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=5341#comment-12032 Kevin-First and foremost congratulations and happy anniversary! I do admire so much of Ayers' work but, in his recent writings, I think he gets so involved in nuance that he loses focus. I thought I knew more than the average non-professional on the subject, but when I read Don E. Fehrenbacher's "The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery" (completed & edited after his death by his former student Ward M. McAfee), I was stunned at how pervasive the effect was of the Peculiar Institution and the struggles to deal with it on the nation from its birth to the Civil War. Madison, in the debates in the Constitutional Convention, identified the primary cause of division among states as North/South (not size) principally due to whether or not a state had slavery. In the twenty years before the war, one Protestant denomination after another experienced total schism over slavery. Some of those breaches have never closed, although they've been acknowledged. <BR><BR>The impact of the Peculiar Institution was complex but the cause boils down to the dilemma that both the friends and the enemies of the American Revolution identified as its greatest weakness from the beginning: how can a nation founded on the principle of natural rights for every human being tolerate enslavement at all much less enslavement that begins at birth because the baby was born to a slave or slaves?</BR></BR> Kevin-First and foremost congratulations and happy anniversary! I do admire so much of Ayers' work but, in his recent writings, I think he gets so involved in nuance that he loses focus. I thought I knew more than the average non-professional on the subject, but when I read Don E. Fehrenbacher's “The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery” (completed & edited after his death by his former student Ward M. McAfee), I was stunned at how pervasive the effect was of the Peculiar Institution and the struggles to deal with it on the nation from its birth to the Civil War. Madison, in the debates in the Constitutional Convention, identified the primary cause of division among states as North/South (not size) principally due to whether or not a state had slavery. In the twenty years before the war, one Protestant denomination after another experienced total schism over slavery. Some of those breaches have never closed, although they've been acknowledged.

The impact of the Peculiar Institution was complex but the cause boils down to the dilemma that both the friends and the enemies of the American Revolution identified as its greatest weakness from the beginning: how can a nation founded on the principle of natural rights for every human being tolerate enslavement at all much less enslavement that begins at birth because the baby was born to a slave or slaves?

]]> By: Jim Cullen http://cwmemory.com/2009/11/04/civil-war-memory-turns-four/#comment-12027 Jim Cullen Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:20:17 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=5341#comment-12027 This blog is a remarkable achievement, and a testament to the vitality of History in a new and rapidly evolving medium. This blog is a remarkable achievement, and a testament to the vitality of History in a new and rapidly evolving medium.

]]> By: msimons http://cwmemory.com/2009/11/04/civil-war-memory-turns-four/#comment-12025 msimons Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:10:42 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=5341#comment-12025 Congrads on 4 years of blogging and I hope you do it for many more years. I have enjoyed the trip so far. Congrads on 4 years of blogging and I hope you do it for many more years. I have enjoyed the trip so far.

]]> By: Tim Abbott http://cwmemory.com/2009/11/04/civil-war-memory-turns-four/#comment-12019 Tim Abbott Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:18:08 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=5341#comment-12019 Glad to see you still going strong, still finding new ways to use the medium and keeping these questions of memory and modern interpretation in the forefront. Hats off! Glad to see you still going strong, still finding new ways to use the medium and keeping these questions of memory and modern interpretation in the forefront. Hats off!

]]> By: Ann Tracy Mueller http://cwmemory.com/2009/11/04/civil-war-memory-turns-four/#comment-12016 Ann Tracy Mueller Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:22:20 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=5341#comment-12016 Congratulations, Kevin. I know how hard maintaining a blog is, along with living life. Your dedication is admirable. Keep up the good work. Congratulations, Kevin. I know how hard maintaining a blog is, along with living life. Your dedication is admirable. Keep up the good work.

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