History Bites: The Slave Hunter

From the 4th season History Bites episode, The Uncivil War, this clip shows Danny DiTata as The Slave Hunter, reflecting the views in the American South during the US civil war. History Bites is currently being shown on The Comedy Network in Canada.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• history
• bites
• crocodile
• hunter
• parody
• slavery

[DarthMercanto]

Lincoln's decision to defy the constitution and raise troops to suppress the Southern Rebellion, not out of fear o the end of slavery. And before you blame me of bias, I am a Canadian Liberal and if I had lived in the 1862 I would have fought for the Union after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

[doconnoronca]

The main plot of the episode these clip come from deals with the writing of the Emancipation Proclamation (as a parody of The West Wing). It raises many of the issues you mention.

[florapikachu]

Has "History Bites" been released to DVD. I love watching it on tv but they always seem to show the same episodes all the time.

[doconnoronca]

They recently released "History Bites: 1st Collection" which has the episodes from the 5th and last season. The only place that I know that sells it is Bay St. Video in Toronto.

[althesmith]

@DarthMercanto : While the Proclamation did not, technically, free all the slaves, it did have the effect in other countries that you demonstrate by what you said- it kept Britain and France at least neutral. And quite a few Canadians did serve, again, mainly for the North. Chamberlain's regiment at Gettysburg, the 20th Maine, was something like a quarter Canadian from the Maritimes iirc.

[ImSoOffended]

@althesmith godwin's law

[Calego]

Love how they have Aussies randomly bopping around in Civil War America. :P

[althesmith]

After the war, so many Confederates started saying the war "had nothing to do with slavery" that it reminds one of all the captured German officers who said "We were never Nazis" at the end of WW2.

No, slavery was not the only issue dividing the USA, but before the war it was the "Elephant in the corner"- that most people didn't want to mention but everyone with half a brain knew would start tearing things up sooner or later. Look up "Bleeding Kansas" sometime,

[DarthMercanto]

The war was started on April 12, 1861, Emancipation was announced in September of 1862, when the war began, it was not a prioity. The South left because it was culturally and ideologically a different nation, that was underrepersented by the government. Although some States were motivated partially by the preservation of slavery, their true anger was directed at tariffs and other laws that aided the North at the expense of the South. And other states, like Virginia, seceded in response to...

[DarthMercanto]

When Lincoln passed the proclamation, Union desertions rose rapidly, one Illinios Battalion lost all but about 30 men. Lincoln himslef said he would have passed the proclimation sooner had he not feared that half his army would throw down their arms. Many Federal troops did not want to fight for the slave, and most Southern troops did not want to fight for the preservation of slavery. In fact slave owning Southerners (those who owned ten or more slaves) were exempt from military service.