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The full length documentary is finally here!
In this video we talk about Puritan Mentalities, Farmers and Landlords, Aristocrat Gentry, New England direct democracy, the life of farmer Erastus P, development of capitalism and the factory system, Liberalism! Industrialism! Society & socialist movements, labor strikes, neighborhood life, and the world wars, told through the perspective of Burlington, Vermont.
Burlington: founded as a utopic vision of liberal plurality, which became a periphery to the Eastern Cities of logging, transport and agricultural exports. But, it also had a strong intellectual tradition linked to the Puritan movements: education, anti-slavery and anti-alcohol! The Yankees who settled here would need to import labor to work their isolated utopia, and the Franco-Canadians, Irish, Ashkenazi and Afro-Americans became a working under-class!
As always, our perspective is looking at history as an anthropologist would: who are these weird people who settled the mountains and worked the farm-factories? What would change as new technologies and ideas rocked their world? Watch, and find out!
Special thanks to Chris Wade of Chapo Trap House, and April Fisher of Free Press renoun for their voiceovers!
Sources used:
Vermont Voices, 1609 through the 1990s : a documentary history of the Green Mountain State; Graffagnino et.
Erastus P Diaries: vermonthistory...
Emma Goldman: theanarchistli...
Story of Vermont: Natural & Cultural History
The history of Vermont, from its earliest settlement to the present time; Carpenter, W.H.
Burlington: A History of Vermont's Queen City; Feeney, Vincent
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:00 Housekeeping
2:53 Yankee Mentality
9:50 Yankee Settlement
14:00 Early Industry
18:46 Religious Ferment
21:00 Erastus P Williams Diaries
31:20 A Changin' Town
41:13 A Civil War!
43:23 Mo Money Mo Problems: the Late 1800s
50:24 The Liberalism Segment
57:08 The Neighborhoods
1:09:27 Red Emma
1:14:41 The Economies
1:16:35 The Wars
1:19:53 The Zany 20th Century
1:26:13 The Yankees Revisited
1:29:23 Storm's A-Brewin'
1:30:25 The Grand Depression
1:37:21 Outro