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🗓️ 11 June 2016
⏱️ 79 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental. |
0:07.0 | Welcome to the show! Today we are going to give you the second part of our coverage of Mary Todd Lincoln. |
0:15.0 | We highly recommend that you go back and listen to part one, but here is a tiny, teeny little recap, |
0:20.0 | comically short, that, well, I'll get you in the picture if you don't have time to go back right now. |
0:26.0 | Mary was born in Lexington, Kentucky. She was the daughter of a rich man, who married an up and coming politician, |
0:33.0 | based on I think nothing more than seeing his potential, and somehow together they formed him into a presidential candidate |
0:41.0 | a long shot who won the White House. And now Mary Lincoln and her husband Abraham are on their way. |
0:49.0 | And so we begin. Perfect recap. Now Mary had always craved attention her entire life, and as first lady, she was about to get it, |
0:57.0 | but a lot of it wasn't actually good. For instance, one of the first bits of attention she got was death threats, |
1:03.0 | including ones that were addressed to her. Letters were coming for them from southerners who were completely ticked off |
1:10.0 | that an anti-slavery president had been elected. And since Abraham Lincoln had been elected, |
1:17.0 | South Carolina had seceded from the union in protest of the Republican Party's platform that slavery is wrong as an institution. |
1:26.0 | So to them, Abraham Lincoln's win was just nothing more than a slap in the face to their way of life. |
1:31.0 | I should point out here that for those of you who are confused that the Republicans were the ones that were anti-slavery, |
1:39.0 | you should know, and I'll provide you a link to the explanation that at some point between Abraham Lincoln and say, |
1:46.0 | FDR, the Republican and Democratic parties switched their platforms nearly completely. |
1:53.0 | So we'll provide you a link to how exactly that happened. It's much too convoluted to explain here. |
1:58.0 | Early in February, before the inauguration, South Carolina, of course, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Louisiana formed the Confederacy. |
2:08.0 | This is not a good beginning for any president. It's a little bit stressful, shall we say? |
2:13.0 | It's a lot of it stressful. Within a month, Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America, |
2:21.0 | and then Abraham Lincoln was elected president of all the rest. |
2:25.0 | What confusion it must have been at the time. |
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