Confederate States of America country
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▶ 11:45
put up a naval blockade. Since the South had almost no manufacturing of its own, and they relied on imports and exports from Europe, the blockade was pretty darn effective. So it gets interesting. And admiralty law, when you capture ships d…
▶ 12:15
They've kind of twisted the law to a great degree. That's Mr. Everett's very storied career. There's a little bit more about this. He's one of the lawyers that tried to prosecute Jefferson Davis for treason after the war. This is why they w…
▶ 12:44
And there would have come out in court that Lincoln had no legal basis to invade. At least that was the fear. So nobody was ever tried for treason. Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was not. But this is one of the lawyers. …
▶ 14:41
the British and the French helping the South, where Russia kind of cut them off on both coasts from interfering in the Civil War because they definitely wanted the South to win. Yeah. The tariffs that the North, the tariff of abominations, …
▶ 15:10
They're going to slap one on Southern goods. So the tariff of abominations was the South fought against, but Europe didn't like it either. Funny you bring up cotton because the next family we talk about, the whole cotton industry has a huge…
▶ 22:13
most prestigious family in American history. And nobody talks about them. I have no idea how they've been able to stay under the radar. One of the most famous Whitney's, of course, is Eli Whitney, who invented the cotton gin, which is what …