“The American Civil War from the View of Laboring People: Agrarian Reform or Tragedy?”
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2002
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Journal Article
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History
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English
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103-397-180
(Last edited on
2003/11/25 17:42:57 US/Mountain)
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This article looks at the American Civil War’s agrarian reform dimension through the eyes of a laboring family, the Baileys. They lived on the Kansas-Missouri border in Henry County, Missouri. Despite the hardships, they viewed the war as contributing significantly to their program, which included free public education, the regulation of corporations, a prohibition on further aid to railroads, a redistribution of wealth towards its producers through confiscatory taxation and a test oath to help kept the former slave owners and landlords from voting, holding state office, preaching, teaching and practicing law. The Baileys reformism was not a religion that equated God with county or with doctrines of “freedom” “constitutionalism” and “union” that failed to mention freedom, constitutionalism for whom and for what. They conceded no “freedom” for the monopolization of land and labor. Preservation of the union was not obtained in order for capitalism to enslave.
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