The video below is a long video but vitally important for Americans to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=364cxeR5EAg
The book above, offers a unique history of the Civil War and considers the impact of
nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the
course of the war. Beginning with the European secret societies that laid the
groundwork for Freemasonry in the United States, Mark A. Lause analyzes how the
Old World's traditions influenced various underground groups and movements in
America, particularly George Lippard's Brotherhood of the Union, an American
attempt to replicate the political secret societies that influenced the
European revolutions of 1848. Lause traces the Brotherhood's various
manifestations, the most conspicuous being the Knights of the Golden Circle
(out of which developed the Ku Klux Klan), and the Confederate secret groups
through which John Wilkes Booth and others attempted to undermine the Union.
Lause profiles the key leaders of these organizations, with special focus on
George Lippard, Hugh Forbes, and George Washington Lafayette Bickley.
Antebellum secret societies ranged politically from those
with progressive or even revolutionary agendas to those that pursued
conservative or oppressive goals. This book shows how, in the years leading up
to the Civil War, these clandestine organizations exacerbated existing
sectional tensions in the United States. Lause's research indicates that the
pervasive influence of secret societies may have played a part in key events
such as the Freesoil movement, the beginning of the Republican party, John
Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Lincoln's election, and the Southern secession
process of 1860-1861.
This exceptional study encompasses both white and African
American secret society involvement, revealing the black fraternal experience
in antebellum America as well as the clandestine operations that provided
assistance to escaped slaves via the Underground Railroad. Unraveling these
pervasive and extensive networks of power and influence, A Secret
Society History of the Civil War demonstrates that antebellum secret
societies played a greater role in affecting Civil War-era politics than has
been previously acknowledged.
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