What 'Lincoln' misses and another Civil War film gets right

[redstar826]

- He used the N-word and told racist jokes. He once said African-Americans were inferior to whites. He proposed ending slavery by shipping willing slaves back to Africa

Comments

[othellia]

Aww... shoot, missed today's one, I'll have to see if they upload it to their website.

I'm very curious to see the parts on the racism from within the Abolitionists' circle since I used to do a bunch of reports on them and that time period in middle school and high school, and never came across that too much. It seems that high school level research books like to leave those parts out.

Also, re: seeing Lincoln as the noble man who freed the slaves above all else, almost everyone I've met who's not into history didn't know the Underground Railroad wasn't underground and wasn't a railroad, so that really doesn't surprise me.

[jenny_jenkins]

I'm 15 minutes in.

So far: Angelina Grimké Weld (win!), William Lloyd Garrison (winner!), Frederick Douglass (winningest!)

Oh - even as I'm typing! Nat Turner rebellion.

It's awesome - don't miss it!

[othellia]

Yeah, I assumed from someone's earlier comment up thread that it'd already passed, and by the time I noticed your that one had passed as well. PBS did upload it to their website though, so I finally got some time to watch it today and it was totally worth it

[jenny_jenkins]

WLG and Douglass and Weld - it was their life's work. Their whole lives

[roseofjuly]

As in wasn't actually under the earth? *facepalm*

[moonshaz]

...almost everyone I've met who's not into history didn't know the Underground Railroad wasn't underground and wasn't a railroad...

That's just...disturbing.

I've known those things ever since I've known there WAS something called the Underground Railroad. I mean, the first mention of it I ever remember contained that information.

This is just...gaaah. I cannot.