In 1861. It started in these refugee camps. Im going to start with two stories. The first one might be familiar. The story of how the contraband decision got handed down. It happened Important Role virginia. Baker,ownsend, James Shepherd mallory get a boat where the union just arrived. There are confederates all around and these gentlemen had been building confederate fortifications for their master. They knew they were about to go to North Carolina and would be leaving their families and they decided to chance it. Next morning, a confederate soldier comes under flag of truce and says, please return the slaves. Were rebels really entitled . Werent they foreign country . You say you are a foreign country. Said, im confiscating these three men as contraband property of war. He even gave the confederate soldier a receipt. This spreads incredibly quickly. It is an in between status. Property likee of smuggled goods but you are a person. But whatever the ambiguities of contraband, it defini
To introduce our panel on the return of the confederate century. Who are part of our life cspan audience, you can actually be part of this conversation. Twitter at cwi2016. Let me go ahead and introduce our panelists. Right, david, who is of americanlecturer history at the university of edinburgh in scotland. He teaches a range of civil war and southern history. His first book is in one published by the university of Carolina Press entitled moments of despair, suicide, divorce, and debt in civil war era north carolina. Next to david is james. James recently assumed instructors up instructor university shepherd civil war. It is not far from the battle of antietam. He is also assistant professor of history. He has published a number of studies foritled the National Park service. He is on because of releasing his first book for publication at the university of Carolina Press. Jason phillips is the professor of civil war studies at west his book isversity titled diehard rebels, the confede
They won. Watched the nba dung contest. We stayed up too late it watch it. We watched the after show. Emily like nascar. The president airing a great ad. So many exciting things this morning you will be awake in no time. Griff did you know that Michael Bloomberg is surging is thinking about possibly according to a rumor picking Hillary Clinton as his running mate. Pete that cant be real. Is that a real headline . We. Griff we were all very stunned, drudge report headline came it. Bloomberg considering Hillary Clinton as Vice President. We got a reaction quickly from the Bloomberg Campaign. The Communications Director said this, simply, were focused own the primary and the debate not Vice President speculation. Pete that is not an answer. Emily hillary herself, for a long time she has been downplaying, name the Vice President. Did an interview with ellen and did an interview with variety. She had an urge. She has been teasing people that xi is considering it. Here is what she said to el
Make him look great. For two hours tomorrow night on nbc. He is going to be essentially a pinata for all the other democrats on the stage who are going to remind him about his comments about stop and frisk and farm are farmers and g minority men not knowing how to behave in the workplace. Pete he needed one more poll and it looked like he got it. This marist poll came out moments ago. Here is the breakdown amongst voters there in nevada. Sanders 31 . Excuse me, this is nationwide poll. This which is amazing when you consider that biden just months ago was the national frontrunner. Sanders 31 . Bloomberg 19 . Biden 15 . Warren 12 . Klobuchar 9 and buttigieg 8 . Ainsley this is what happens when you start to see rise in the polls you know backlash is coming. They are going to definitely be under fire. On the debate stage they are going back and pulling out different soundbites of things that he said. This is the latest one from 2011. This is what he said about africanamericans and latino
Suddenly reading the rhythmic vertical super tuesday state of florida. What is Mike Bloomberg running on . On thats a trick question actually. Bloomberg is running on anything. Not because he doesntan have ideas, hes got plenty of ideas and some of them are far outside the american mainstream but bloomberg doesnt think any of that matters. Hes not running on ideas, hes not trying to convince voters of anything. Hes not making arguments are working to change their minds on policies they care about. Hes trying to buy them and hence the presidency. If the single most cynical Political Campaign ever run of this country. Bloomberg is trying to subvert our sonography with cash and hes going all and to do it. Bloomberg has spent more than 417 million on advertising so far in this race. His nearest rival, Bernie Sanders, has spent 40 million, thats less than a tenth. Joe biden, the men they told us was themi front runner, has spet just 12. 3 million. Compare that, lets say it again, to the at