Civil War Kentucky plus some Indian artifacts
Old VHS vid of some historical places in Kentucky-begins with Old Fort Harrod-
Civil War Generals from West Point, Grant and Lee, JEB Stuart Highway Kentucky
the Stuart Highway starts a train of thought on the longevity of the Civil War...Recorded on August 26, 2011 using a Flip Video camcorder.
A Visit to West Point, KY
Random clips from West Point, Kentucky on a recent trip to visit with friends.
lincoln speaks at Fort Duffield
Fort Duffield Civil War Reenactment for November 3rd, 2013, a portion of the Lincoln reenactor addressing the audience.
Civil War Museum Tour - Battles of the Western Theatre
Civil War Museum, Historic Bardstown, Kentucky
Pitts Point Kentucky circa 1956
Home movie from Momen (Jug) Quiggins in 1956. Richard Briggs, local historian, made a trip up Salt River from West Point, KY, with Jug Quiggins. They explored Pitts Point after it was purchased by the government as part of the Fort Knox military reservation. It had been vacant for many years at this time.
History of Fort Heiman DOCUMENTARY
17 minute documentary about the history of a Civil War encampment in Calloway County, Kentucky and its recent inclusion to the Fort Donelson National Battlefield complex. Directed and produced by Josh Conner as part of video-studio fundamentals class at Calloway County High-school.
Lincoln addressing the audience and quoting his own Gettysburg Address at Fort Duffield
Fort Duffield Civil War Reenactment for November 3rd, 2013, a portion of the Lincoln reenactor quoting and explaining a portion of the Gettysburg Address
Ghost Light in Kentucky
Mother tells of strange light she encounter when younger
REB Digs; Relic Hunting In Kentucky, Wayne's Legion Button Dug In Ky.
This video shows a new site I found in Northern Kentucky. It shows the artifacts I recovered that are associated with Wayne's Legion, which was formed in 1791 by President George Washington, to protect the settlers in the New Frontier of the United States. I found a rare button from this unit that is in REMARKABLE condition.
Enjoy!
REB
Locust Grove, Louisville Kentucky, Battle reenactment, 10-26-2013
Battle between Colonial and British Forces in the field - Locust Grove, Louisville Kentucky, Battle reenactment, 10-26-2013
Filmed with Cannon SX-50
Fort Knox
Fort Knox is a United States Army post in Kentucky south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. The 109,000 acre (170 mi.sq, 441 km.sq) base covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin, and Meade counties. It currently holds the Army human resources Center of Excellence to include the Army Human Resources Command, United States Army Cadet Command and the United States Army Accessions Command.
For 60 years, Fort Knox was the home of the U.S. Army Armor Center and the U.S. Army Armor School (now relocated to Fort Benning, Georgia as a result of BRAC action), and was used by both the Army and the Marine Corps to train crews on the M1 Abrams main battle tank. The history of the U.S. Army's Cavalry and Armored forces, and of General George S. Patton's career, can be found at the General George Patton Museum on the grounds of Fort Knox.
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A Ghost Story
A Kentucky home ghost story
Abolitionism in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:49 1 Calls for abolition
00:07:13 2 Abolition in the North
00:11:11 3 Freed by Southern owners
00:13:32 4 Western territories
00:16:20 5 Colonization and the founding of Liberia
00:18:53 6 Emigration
00:20:08 7 Religion and morality
00:23:26 8 Garrison and immediate emancipation
00:29:35 9 Black abolitionist rhetoric
00:30:52 10 iUncle Tom's Cabin/i
00:31:51 11 American Catholics
00:34:12 12 German immigrants
00:34:40 13 Abolitionist women
00:42:24 14 Progress of abolition in the United States
00:42:36 14.1 To 1804
00:46:57 14.2 South after 1804
00:48:32 14.3 Immediate abolition
00:56:37 14.4 The end
00:58:03 14.4.1 Compromise of 1850
00:59:07 14.4.2 Republican Party
01:02:25 14.4.3 John Brown
01:05:05 14.4.4 American Civil War
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Abolitionism in the United States was the movement before and during the American Civil War to end slavery in the United States. In the Americas and western Europe, abolitionism was a movement to end the Atlantic slave trade and set slaves free. In the 17th century, enlightenment thinkers condemned slavery on humanistic grounds and English Quakers and some Evangelical denominations condemned slavery as un-Christian. At that time, most slaves were Africans, but thousands of Native Americans were also enslaved. In the 18th century, as many as six million Africans were transported to the Americas as slaves, at least a third of them on British ships to North America. The colony of Georgia originally abolished slavery within its territory, and thereafter, abolition was part of the message of the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s in the Thirteen Colonies.
Rationalist thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment criticized slavery for violating natural rights. A member of the British Parliament, James Edward Oglethorpe, was among the first to articulate the Enlightenment case against slavery. Founder of the Province of Georgia, Oglethorpe banned slavery on humanistic grounds. He argued against it in Parliament and eventually encouraged his friends Granville Sharp and Hannah More to vigorously pursue the cause. Soon after his death in 1785, Sharp and More joined with William Wilberforce and others in forming the Clapham Sect. Although anti-slavery sentiments were widespread by the late 18th century, many colonies, churches and emerging nations (notably in the southern United States) continued to use and defend the traditions of slavery.
During and immediately following the American Revolution, Northern states, beginning with Pennsylvania in 1780, passed legislation during the next two decades abolishing slavery, sometimes by gradual emancipation. Massachusetts ratified a constitution that declared all men equal; freedom suits challenging slavery based on this principle brought an end to slavery in the state. In other states, such as Virginia, similar declarations of rights were interpreted by the courts as not applicable to Africans. During the ensuing decades, the abolitionist movement grew in Northern states, and Congress regulated the expansion of slavery as new states were admitted to the Union. Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in 1807 and banned slavery in the British Empire in 1833. The United States criminalized the international slave trade in 1808 and made slavery unconstitutional in 1865 as a result of the American Civil War.
Historian James M. McPherson defines an abolitionist as one who before the Civil War had agitated for the immediate, unconditional and total abolition of slavery in the United States. He does not include antislavery activists such as Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President during the Civil War, or the Republican Party, which called for the gradual ending of slavery.Aboliti ...