What Did the Rebel Yell Sound Like?

Smithsoniam.com ^ | film footage from 1935-8? | Unknown (Library of Congress Archives)

[arderkrag]

If the system had been left alone, the market would have eventually provided the South with a replacement solution which would have prospered through economic necessity.

[Secret Agent Man]

Fixing the South’s economy doesn’t mean the slavery/people are property issue would have been settled. There is no justification that the plantation system ending would have meant blacks were going to be equal and free people down there. No logical link at all.

[arderkrag]

Sure there is. Eventually, the ownership of people wouldn’t have made any economic sense.

[One Name]

The trill was the part I didn’t know for sure.

You’re right- it goes back to the Scottish clans callin up for help.

[One Name]

Ya’ll are a couple daughters of the South...

[One Name]

She put that in you early on and it stuck!

[hedgetrimmer]

Interesting ... bump.

[P.O.E.]

The Haze rocked!

No More Hot Dogs!

[One Name]

Don’t have cable but I’ll look on YouTube

[The Duke]

Here is Turtle Man, in all his glory (with many Rebel Yells):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIfyDAKJPdk

[Georgia Girl 2]

I went through 4 years of college with that yell at every football game. Pike fraternity friends. :-)

[One Name]

I’d heard about it all my life but never heard a real Rebel yell it...

Its ours forever as needed.

Might be soon. Thanks!