CSPAN2 Interview On Book Of Ages December 1, 2013
Host on your nomination for the internal enemy. Where did you come up with that name . Guest well, this was the term that virginians of the early republic used to describe their slaves, particularly when they felt threatened by a Foreign Invasion as they did during the revolution. And be they would comment that they faced two great dangers, an external enemy and be an internal enemy. It was a very different way of thinking about slavery than were used to encountering. Were used to thinking that southerners thought of slavery as a positive good. But in the early republic, we knew their slaves w...