Abe Lincoln's Favorite Hate Read

Softcore History

History, Comedy, Improv

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

19th Century Southern lawyer-turned-sociologist and noted shut-in George Fitzhugh was "too online" 140 years before the internet was even invented. He stayed inside all day reading newspapers, books, and political pamphlets, rarely leaving home. As with anyone who shapes their worldview only by consuming media, Fitzhugh started to believe some pretty wild ideas. Particularly, that pretty much everyone should be a slave. Black, white, brown -- race didn't matter (much). Most people on Earth should be slaves in Fitzhugh's mind. This take not only made him a famous author and political commentator, it inspired none other than Abraham Lincoln to get back into politics after losing his congressional seat.

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0:36.4	This week on softcore history,
0:37.8	we're talking about a man who I believe
0:40.4	may be the first ever person in human history who was quote
0:44.3	two online which is especially impressive considering he was born
0:49.2	140 years before the internet even existed. This man spit out spicy take after spicy
0:57.0	take in books, pamphlets, news articles, and everything else and his greatest take of all that America should expand slavery to not only
1:06.2	every black person but just most people in general. Today we are talking
1:11.6	about George Fitzhue, an American lawyer in the 19th century who believed
1:17.6	that most people, no matter what their race was, deserve to be slaves.
1:23.0	Welcome to Soft Core History.
1:31.0	What is up?
1:32.0	Welcome back to Soft Core History. I am your host Rob Fox joined as always by Dan Regester and this week
1:40.1	Special guests no one no one else we don't a deep bench. We don't we truly don't everyone a lot of our friends are leaving Austin
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