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>> it was one of four inclines into his ferc used to transport people to the top of what once was called coal hill but today is known as mount washington. the duquesne incline has become a pittsburgh tourist attraction and the top observation deck provides a deck of the golden triangle. up next, we returned to the heinz history center and tore an exhibit titled from slavery to freedom. exhibit titled from slavery to freedom. >> we are at the heinz history center. the exhibition covers roughly from 17th century west africa to 21st century pittsburgh. we are in the transatlantic slave trade gallery. they have a number of different features, one of the objectives for the exhibition is that we wanted our visitors to be , thised in environments

is our slave ship environment. as you can see, one of the captives is a young man roughly around 17 years of age. on platform he is sitting actually passed statistics from different sections of west africa the platform is cut out in the shape of west africa, the atlantic coast. you can see from sierra leone to angola, we have roughly estimated numbers of captives taken from africa for the slave trade for roughly the 15th through the 19th century. this case has artifacts, the pistol is a portuguese made firearm roughly from the 18th-century. it was typical of the type of

cruises that slave ship -- crew members would have during their voyages across the atlantic. the shells are what is today looked upon as decorative objects. and were used as currencies some west african societies during this time. typehackles below are the that would be worn by children, they have rattles inside of them and a security for the enslavers so they can locate people who are enslaved. this section is the slave economy, our objective is to talk about slavery in the americas, not solely as a part of labor but slavery in the americas in terms of the economic impact on world society. in the exhibit, we refer to cotton as king cotton because the importance in the domestic

economy as well as the overall economy of america. cotton has a connection to pittsburgh, before you had steel mills in pittsburgh, you had cotton mills and one of those mills was the eagle cotton works located in allegheny city which today on the north side of pittsburgh and the owners of the eagle cotton works were arbuckle and avery, charles avery, he noted abolitionist we will talk the noted- abolitionist we will talk about later. pittsburgh imported 5000 tons of cotton's from mississippi and other southern states per year. that is a tremendous amount of cotton that fit into the textile mills and at the beginning of the civil war, there were some of the western pennsylvania sidede mill owners who

with the confederacy, primarily because they have an economic interest with the confederacy seeing that cotton was the raw material that fit their mills and produced their wealth. for many freedom seekers, the question about who do you take with you and who'd you leave behind, which direction would you go, what time of year would you go, what time of day would you go, who do you trust, who do you not trust? all of these questions came to play in the story of william steele and his family. he was a very well-known philadelphia anti-slavery activist who interviewed runaway slaves when they came to philadelphia and came to the anti-slavery offices. one day a gentleman came in to his office who was a runaway from mississippi. he said he was looking for his family and he knew that his

family at one time was a slave in maryland. he had two sisters and a mother. they escaped. he at his brother were left behind. he came in to philadelphia looking for his family, seeing if anyone in philadelphia about his family who would probably be residing in southern new jersey. as william began to interview this man, he began to find commonalities in his own family history. and the family history of the gentleman. to the degree they do get to request that they were brothers. -- to the degree they realized that they were brothers. their mother had passed away, she had four children, she escaped slavery in maryland and the first time she escaped she was captured here she had all four of her children with her, two boys and two girls.

the second time she left the boys behind and took the girls for which he was successful in achieving freedom in new jersey. the boys were sold down the river as they say to a mississippi cotton plantation. for which peter, one of the boys, was later able to escape and make his way to philadelphia where he met his brother william and they realized they were brothers. this was decades later. a very powerful family story. it illustrates the decision process for freedom seekers but thatlks about the best took place among african-americans because all the you were in slave, you still have loved ones and family. in the history of pittsburgh of the underground railroad and the abolitionist movement, martin is a prominent individual, not only a writer, a researcher, he

published a newspaper, he attended medical school at harvard and he was known as a very determined abolitionist leader in pittsburgh. is of aure of delaney speech he was given in september of 1850, shortly after the passage of the fugitive slave act. it was at allegheny city market which is today the north side of fitchburg. -- pittsburgh. he was challenging the president of the united states that even if the president came to his home looking for fugitive slaves and runaway slaves, mr. delaney would let him at his feet and if he did not, may his body be denied a grave. that tells you about the determination of the pittsburgh abolitionist community, that they were very militant about their work and ending slavery in

the united states. we talked earlier about charles avery as the owner of the eagle cotton works. prominento a abolitionist leader in pittsburgh. he owned textile mills not only in pittsburgh but in new england, copper mines in michigan and wisconsin. 1850's, he1840's and was quite possibly the wealthiest person in pittsburgh. he was the founder of what was then called allegheny institute in 1849. 1856, thedeath in allegheny institute was changed to be called avery college. one of the earliest colleges in the united states for african-americans. he did not have children. upon his death, he left money for his wife and he left the

bulk of his estate for african-american religious and educational instruction. this is a map of downtown pittsburgh. you can see the point of the rivers. this is 1854. these structures represent the ande hotel, the barbershop the home of mark delaney, and upright -- martin delaney, and their location in downtown pittsburgh. these homes are identified as statehouses for underground railroad activity. which took place at all three places. these lanterns throughout the -- indicate where others other safe houses were at one point in time, not only in downtown pittsburgh, but in allegheny city as well.

this gallery is called moving toward freedom, where we talk about organizations such as anti-slavery society and other organizations that were involved in the abolition of slavery. and the american combination societies, both took root in pittsburgh as they did in other northern cities. in pittsburgh, it was across racial lines where you had people such as charles avery, the reverend john black, a presbyterian minister who preached the abolitionist gospel from the pulpit in a presbyterian church, although he was asked not to. the westernge from pennsylvania anti-slavery society. paid inws the dues contributions to the society in 1838. you can see charles every

contributing $100 in 1838. nearly 110 years after the abolitionist movement, the civil rights movement was in full swing. especially in pittsburgh. this mural is a photograph taken in 1969. this is the beginning of a march from the hill district over to the north side of pittsburgh where the construction for three rivers stadium was underway. these men were leaders of a civil rights movement, reverend jimmy joe robertson, nate smith, attorney bert brown were three of the people seen in the photo. they will march from what is today freedom corner, which was in the hill district, across the benedictom saint catholic church.

,hey marched down center avenue across the bridge to allegheny city where they were confronted by the police officers, similar to what happened in soma, alabama -- selma, alabama. there was a confrontation on the bridge tween the civil rights leaders and the pittsburgh police department. lessarch was more or demonstrating against the restrictions on black construction workers to get jobs on major projects, including the construction of the u.s. steel building downtown and three rivers stadium. the civil rights movement also was the economic rights movement in pittsburgh because it surroundinge issues the economic advancement for african-americans in pittsburgh.

i want people when they leave this exhibition to fully have an understanding of the issue of slavery in the united states. the impact slavery have on the development of the united states. and the continuation of freedom rights and freedom issues in this country. geared older the civil rights movement and even today through the black lives matter movement. the primary issue being oppression that comes right out of slavery. if we understand slavery, we can have a better understanding of how oppression continues to evolve in our society. >> this weekend, we are featuring the history of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. together with the comcast cable partners. learn more about pittsburgh and other stops on the city's tour citiestour.rg/