Jeremi Suri: Civil War, Slavery, Freedom, and Democracy | Lex Fridman Podcast

Published: 25 January 2023
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
0:27 - Revolutions and governments
18:06 - American Civil War
27:18 - Lincoln and election of 1860
31:08 - Slavery
44:17 - Freedom of speech
56:00 - Death toll of the Civil War
59:19 - Ulysses S. Grant
1:01:27 - Ku Klux Klan
1:13:10 - Robert E. Lee
1:20:53 - Abraham Lincoln
1:36:01 - If the south won
1:44:37 - Hypocrisy of the Founders
1:50:39 - John Wilkes Booth
1:53:54 - White supremacy
1:59:17 - Disputed elections
2:09:38 - Politics
2:18:03 - Donald Trump and Joe Biden
2:30:48 - January 6th
2:55:46 - Hope for the future

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