Aaron Sheehan-Dean
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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This didn't extend to social equality, and only among a handful does it extend to real political equality or political representation.
So it's hard for me to imagine that there is actually a majority that supports this, a majority of those voting, which means white people in the middle of the 19th century.
You know, I think that historians and it's useful to have these so that we can see sort of where other choices could have been made.
I mean, you and I did a whole show on Lincoln and I, you know, on sort of if Lincoln had lived and, you know, my not to I want people to go back and listen to it if they haven't.
But I was I was skeptical that things might have turned out substantially differently.
I said Lincoln would have been much less esteemed today if he had to deal with the mess that became Reconstruction.
You know, luckily for him, got martyred.
And so.
It is useful.
I mean, the most famous example of this is Edmund Morgan has a famous book from the 1970s called American Slavery, American Freedom, in which he describes the initial impulse among British settlers to adopt slaves, which they do in the 17th century.
And he argues really as a consequence of the Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.
And that book remains the most popular book for high school teachers to teach.
50 years after its release, because it helps students see here was a moment when people made a decision and you can see this sharp fork.
We could have pursued a society based on free labor and instead we pursued one based on slave labor.
And I would like to be able to say that there was at least the popular will in 1865 to produce a genuine biracial democracy.
I'm not convinced that there was.
Certainly we could have with a federal government that committed to protecting the lives of black southerners and was willing to use force to suppress the Klan much earlier and to invalidate the political participation of people who used violence.
That is, you don't get the opportunity to lead the Klan and then take a seat in Congress.
And this is another interesting post-war question and a comparative one in terms of other civil and national rebellions and conflicts in the middle of the 19th century.
There are some ex-Confederates that end up serving in Congress in the post-war years, which is just kind of astonishing.
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