Economic Policies of the Confederacy

Lectures in History

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News, History, Politics

4.2 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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University of North Carolina at Pembroke professor Jamie Martinez taught a class about the Confederacy’s economic policies during the Civil War. She explained how a pre-war focus on cotton exports over food production combined with wartime farm labor disruptions led to food shortages and riots in the South in 1863. This, she said, forced the Confederate government into developing more nationalized policies for food production and resource allocation that ran counter to their constitution’s emphasis on a decentralized government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.1	Lectures in History joins students in the classroom to hear lectures on campuses across the country.
1:13.3	This week, University of North Carolina at Pembroke Professor Jamie Martinez teaches a class about the Confederacy's economic policies during the Civil War.
1:16.6	Good afternoon, everyone.
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1:21.0	Our topic for today is the second part of our Civil War content for this semester, and I want to talk today about economic
1:31.6	policy and social events that are tied to the economy, and I've kind of titled this
1:37.6	Feeding the Confederacy. We will focus most of our attention on the Confederate states,
1:42.7	and we'll talk about the crucial issue of how you make sure
1:46.1	that your soldiers and your civilians have enough to eat
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