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 SOURCE 1. Causes, Costs and Consequences: The Economics of the American Civil War

by Roger Ransom

The "second revolution" that transformed the U.S. into an industrial society that fueled the concept of the American dream?

SOURCE 2

The Civil War, A Second American Revolution GOOD MEN AND Desperate TIMES ARE RIPE FOR CHANGE Address by CRAIG BARNES, author, playwright. We seldom see revolutionary change without seeing both great characters and terrible times. Lincoln had to be just right and the times just wrong to bring about a new birth of freedom. Roosevelt had to be just right and the times terribly wrong to create a New Deal. Historically, the combination is rare. To say it another way, for thirty years, at least, we have been guided by myths that greed is good, strength comes from guns, and the world is divided between good and evil. Capitalism. According to Adam Smith’s version of capitalism the free market was supposed to set value and establish morality. Rampant self-interest leads to the common good. That means that those at the bottom of the economy can no longer trust either elevated practitioners of capitalism at the top or themselves to provide a cash bridge into the future. It turned out to be a formula for grief; and perhaps bankruptcy. Capitalism as a religion of consumption on credit is now demonstrably flawed.. When it comes to commerce and trade, therefore, America, Europe, and all the developing nations, are today adrift, tossed on a sea of ideological contradictions. Capitalism may be partly good and partly not so good. But it is not the whole good. It is none of those threats that in the past led us to believe that we could divide America into two parts. After the civil war America was ideologically chaotic because it is unexplained and the future is uncharted. We are therefore entering into an age of ideological confusion. Today, Militarism which has been the mainstay of our foreign policy for 50 years, fuels rather than diminishes terrorism, is irrelevant to conquer or influence the trading habits of China or India, Germany or Japan, and is irrelevant to address global warming that could cut us all down. Our earliest Greek philosophy and its dependent religions have prepared us for a world no longer extant.

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· Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction

· Debra A. Reid

SUMMARY

This collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essay provides a case study of people in one place at a particular time and the factors that affected their ability to acquire, secure, and protect their land.

The contributors walk readers through a century and a half of African American agricultural history, from the strivings of black farm owners in the immediate post-emancipation period to the efforts of contemporary black farm owners to receive justice through the courts for decades of discrimination by the U.S Department of Agriculture. They reveal that despite enormous obstacles, by 1920 a quarter of African American farm families owned their land, and demonstrate that farm ownership was not simply a departure point for black migrants seeking a better life but a core component of the African American experience.

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Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System

Douglas S. Massey