
The lecture is delivered by Philip D. Morgan who has done research into the culture of the slaves themselves. In comparison to Uncle Tom's Cabin, the picture is much more diverse and much less easy to digest. But then again, Stowe's novel was to drive home an ideological point. Morgan attempted to describe, in spite of the problem there are so little sources in which the slaves speaks themselves. Morgan's painted picture is eventually that of a paternalism that gave rise to just as much the justifications of slavery as well as a novel such as Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The Gilder Lehrmann podcast promises to be a good quality source for history lectures in the realm of American History.

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This is a better URL for the Podcasts:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/wp/?p
Is that so? I do not see the difference in the resulting page. Nevertheless I will update the post
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