Increasingly, Southern nationalists are able to get their message out to millions of people via the media. This is happening not only through the use of podcasts, streaming videos and new interactive video media such as Google Hangout, it’s also happening on conventional media such as mainstream television programs. Recently, Matthew Heimbach, the founder of...
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The Boston-based (90.9 WBUR) National Public Radio program ‘On Point’ with host Tom Ashbrook had as its guest today Brandeis University English professor John Burt to discuss Abraham Lincoln and the ‘evolution of American morality.’ The title of the episode is ‘What Would Lincoln Do? ’ Professor Burt specialises in writing about and criticising the Old...
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Dr Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute and former economic analyst for Alabama Governor Fob James, recently appeared on Next News Network to discuss Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln film and how the portrayal of the sixteenth president of the United States compares to the real Lincoln. Dr Thornton noted that while the acting and production in the movie is...
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Dr Walter E Williams, Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, points out in a recent article at LewRockwell.com that despite the box office success and critical praise for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, in real life the sixteenth US president was a hypocrite on the three major issues of his time: secession, slavery and the...
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Today on the Golden Circle podcast we take a look back to the early to mid-nineteenth century. Specifically, we examine the rise of British abolitionism, anti-slavery as a part of British geo-politics, the economic destruction of the British Caribbean and Southern reactions to all of this. This podcast builds on the recent SNN article Southern...
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In 1858 South Carolina statesman and US Senator James Henry Hammond famously proclaimed that ‘Cotton is king.’ At that time the Southern States produced about 75% of the world’s cotton, with sales of this crop constituting about 60% of all US exports. The strength of the US economy at that time was unquestionably based on the...
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Hunter Wallace is the editor of Occidental Dissent. In this interview Mr Wallace talks about a lengthy review he recently did of David Brion Davis’ book Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of New World Slavery. He speaks about how plantation society and slavery were introduced into the Golden Circle region, moving from Brazil to Barbados to South...
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In the article below, we will examine efforts by Southerners in the nineteenth century to expand southward throughout the Golden Circle, resistance this evoked from Northern Republicans and how this sectional dispute over expansion contributed to the polarisation of the North and the South leading up to 1860-61 and secession. This article is essentially...
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Leonidas W Spratt was a native South Carolinian, judge, newspaper editor in Charleston and a leading secessionist in the Palmetto State with ties to Florida where he practiced law for some time. He was chosen as South Carolina’s commissioner to Florida, one of the men whom the recently-seceded State sent to the other Southern States...
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Charles B Dew’s book Apostles of Disunion (published by University of Virginia Press) attempts to prove that Southern secession in 1860-61 was all about slavery. Indeed, the question of slavery (but especially its relationship to the much broader and more important issue of race and civilisation) and how to address it was the occasion for disunion, though...
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The view of Southern leaders on race has often been distorted in recent years by both Leftist egalitarians who have no love of the South and by some Southern heritage defenders. The egalitarians often claim that Southerners were a cruel people who wanted nothing more than to beat, rape and otherwise abuse Black slaves....
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Dr Murray Rothbard, known as ‘Mr Libertarian’ for his passionate and unrelenting defence of liberty, was a strong supporter of the right of secession. He was also a great historian (his multi-volume Conceived in Liberty set on Colonial American history is highly recommended). Rothbard argued that the only two just wars in US history...
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