>> frederick! >> my goodness. my goodness. hmm.leasant surprise. >> i can't stay, but i could not come to washington without stopping by. >> it has been so long. it brings back such pleasant memories. you know, harriet, most of what i have done in my life has been public. i have had the awes of the crowd, but your greater deeds have only been known by a few bondsmen. >> [laughter] old age showing that silver tongue of yours. [laughter] you must be terribly lonely. with anna gone and all the children grown. >> anna was the anchor of my life for 40 years. but i have rosetta, charles, lewis, fred. and i have my work. >> i hope this is hot enough for you. >> thank you, rosetta. did you have the file? >> i will get it. ♪ >> thank you. i understand you enjoy bach. is that so? >> very much. >> perhaps you wouldn't mind accompanying me to the concert tonight? >> i would be happy to. i will have to get back to my correspondence. ♪ >> papa, i speak for the entire family. how could you do such a terrible thing? >> rosetta, is it so terrible f

tonight, frederick douglass. an american life as a 1985 park service biography as a former slave and abolitionist. the film was directed by william greaves, an african american filmmaker and producer who created a variety of fiction and nonfiction films from the 1960s through the 2000s. watch tonight, beginning at 8 pm eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> frederick douglass it's not my real name. i'm a fugitive slave it. the year i was born, my mother and i were separated when i was still too young. as a child, i knew indescribable hunger. i remember finding yard odds with scraps of food and garbage. i am often astonished to hear a person speak of the son of a slave us evidence of his contempt of unhappiness. this is a terrible mistake. some of the slave represent the songs of his heart. i sat in baltimore, and i've seen many chained and put on a ship to go to new orleans. >> frederik? >> i can still hear their cries. i'm just going through some old files and notes, some

i just thought of when lincoln meets with frederick douglass in 1864. can you talk about that for a second or no for my literary purposes if frederick douglass had not existed. i would have had to invent it. yeah, because i tell the parallel and intertwining stories of john brown and abraham lincoln, but the two never met. and so i needed somebody not only who had met both who would tie those parts of the story together, but also because i could tell the story of john brown sir. i could get inside john brown's head. he writes his letters and you know, i get that i get same with lincoln, but i need to know what they look like to people on the outside and it would be great if i had the same person looking at both of them because i'm doing an effect this comparison and frederick douglass knew john brown. he met john brown in the 1840s and so he sort of new what john brown was up to and the kind of things that john brown hope to accomplish he eventually met abraham lincoln and well, actually there's a striking moment in the story the story in my story where

again frederick douglass played a pivotal role.and he also was influential, in a constant dialog with president lincoln. to ensure that freedom came, through the emancipation proclamation, and ultimately the 13th amendment. we would be remiss if you told the story of the civil war, and left out the story of women's involvement in the civil war. and you see artifacts that speak to the efforts of charlotte fortune -- . who are at these contraband camps. and you see the story of harriet tubman. you know harriet tubman from the underground railroad, but she served as a union spy. and then you see susan king taylor who was not only a nurse, but she opened up her own hospital. so as we go forward and look at the artifacts that speak to freedom during the period of emancipation. so how do you tell the whole population of people, that they are now free? in fact those seeing men, that frederick douglass fought for to ensure they were able to fight for freedom on the battlefield, were responsible for carrying things such as this. this is an

which frederick douglass couldn't because he was black. booth got into those because he was dating the daughter of an abolitionist, new hampshire senator john hale. and apparently he got a pass assigned paths which which the talismanic pass as they put it in the new york herald to get into the event. and while lincoln was after the ceremonies in the senate chamber, which included johnson's rather drunk and rant they all marched out. to the platform outside and lincoln led the way and while lincoln was marching along this young man. slipped into the line and was right behind lincoln and benjamin brown french who was sort of overseeing these activities actually saw this young man and pulled the stopped him had him stopped and they questioned them and he was very hot-headed very angry. how dare you questioned me and they they sort sort of let him go. and six weeks later after lincoln's assassination french recognized in the picture of both the young man he had stopped in the line. so there's a i think this strong reason to believe both wanted

again, frederick douglass played a pivotal role.ile he ensured that african-american men could fight in the union army, he also was influential in a constant dialogue with president lincoln to ensure that freedom came through the emancipation proclamation and ultimately the thirteenth amendment. we would be remiss if we told the story about the civil war and left out the story of women's involvement in the civil war. when you visit you'll also see artifacts that speak to the efforts of charlotte fort who educated many of the people who were at these contraband camps. you'll also see the story of harriet tubman. she also served as a union spy. and finally you'll see the story of susie king taylor who not only served as the nurse but ultimately opened up her own hospital. so why don't we go forward and look at some of the artifacts that really speak to freedom during the period of emancipation. how do you tell a whole population of people that they are now free? in fact, those same men that frederick douglass fought for to ensure that

zimbardo experiments chip frederick he's. the man here he was the one who had the idea of putting electrodes on in the hood. his lawyer said the problem now is the military want to use him in a show trial in baghdad. in abu ghraib not only not a single scene office that went to trial not a single scene officer got a call letter of reprimand in fact in some cases they even got promoted to the office so it's it's the people at the top always take care of the people at the time. when we're still evaluating how we are going to approach the whole issue of interrogations detentions and so forth and i don't believe that anybody has but belong on the other hand i also have a belief that we need to look forward as lows as opposed to looking looking backwards. we'll look forward will look backward while forward is going to be like backward if you don't do something about what happened in the past nobody has been held accountable for the torture that happened in the past and for this among other people i fault president obama essentiall

. ♪ >> frederick douglass is not my real name. a fugitive slave.he year i was born, i do not know. my mother and i were separated when i was still too young. you indescribable hunger, i remember the scraps of food and all the garbage, i've often been utterly astonished to hear persons speak of the slave as evidence of his contempt. the songs of the slave represent the songs of his heart. i have sat on baltimore -- on the street in baltimore and i have seen men and women chained and put on a ship to go to new orleans. i can still hear their cries. i'm just going through some old files and notes. >> they are not expecting you to make a formal speech. >> i will not be long, i just want to be repaired. i will not be long. >> a, b, c. >> very good. go on. >> d, h, i, j, k. >> what in gods name do you think you are doing? you get a nigger an inch, he will take a mile. there is no need for you to be reading, boy. noted at all. -- no need at all. >> i understand. >> there is nothing more needs saying. [whimpering] >> i have little hope. more than two centu

now i began the book with a quote from frederick douglas, which is important. i don't typically do this in talks, but i'm going to read a quote. he's talking about the first time he met andrew johnson. he's there and this is what he sees. on this inauguration day, while waiting for the opening of the ceremonies, i made a discovery in regard to vice president andrew johnson. there are moments in the lives of most men when the doors of their soul are open. and unconsciously to themselves they trur characters may be read by the observant eye. it was such an instant i caught a glimpse of the real nature of this man, which all developments proved true. i was standing in the crowd by the side of mrs. thomas dorsey when lincoln touched and pointed me out to him. the first expression which came to his face in which i think was the true index of his heart, was one of bitter contempt and aversion. seeing that i observed him, he tried to assume a more friendly appearance, but it was too late. it was useless to close the door when all had been seen. his first grants was th

the highly acclaimed book also won 15 additional awards including the frederick douglas prize. her 2011 study of andrew johnson, the subject of her talk this morning was praised as brilliantly written and fair-minded. the book is not available in the bookstore today. you'll have to order it, but i do have her most recent book, and that is coauthored, and it is titled "the most blessed of patriarchs." she will be available for a few minutes after her presentation to sign a few books for you. so please help me welcome one of my favorite augers annette gordon reid. >> thank you so much. it's great to be here. last night was just fabulous. the talk about stanton, the army chorus and the energy of the place. i'm usually in a room full of people who are enthusiastic about or interested in or obsessed about thomas jefferson. and it's strange to be in a room with people who are interested, obsessed with somebody else. there are other people, other subjects, other things. and it was great. and i did a facebook post about it, and i said now i know what we must look like to other people.

i got a call from the lawyer for chip frederick. and he asked me to act as part of the defense team i said well the person that you should really talk to is the sim pargo he ran this experiment in the 1970 s. and the situations at abu ghraib as far as i can tell are those conditions that are also reproduced in the. zimbardo experiments chip frederick he's the man here he was the one who had the idea of putting electrodes on in the hood. his lawyer said the problem now is the military want to use him in a show trial in baghdad. in abu ghraib not only not a single scene office that went to trial that a single scene officer got the call letter of reprimand in fact in some cases they even got promoted the offices so it's it's the people at the top always take care of the people at the time. when we're still evaluating how we are going to approach the whole issue of interrogations detentions and so forth and i don't believe that anybody has both belong on the other hand i also have a belief that we need to look forward as los as opposed

his books include the ruling class, the radical and the republican, frederick douglass abraham lincoln and the triumph of antislavery politics and freedom national abolition of slavery in the united states for those still won the blinken prize the annual award for the finest work in english on abraham lincoln or the american civil war era. hills and ma and a phd from california berkeley. he's been the faculty of the university of new york graduate center since 1997 at a holder of the graduate humanities chair since 1998. he'll be joined in conversation this evening by professor randall kennedy who is a client professor harvard los coburg teaches courses on contract of criminal law and race relations. saint albans school princeton university, oxford university and yale law school. he served as a law clerk for judge jay scally writes of the united states court of appeals for it and for just her thurgood marshall of the united states supreme court part he was awarded the robert f kennedy book award for his book crime and the law. some of his recent books include for discrimination race af

even to think about this project and to encourage the project is the research that i've found on frederick douglass his words. so was it was a civil war that inspired douglas to write and speak on photography like many americans. he believed that photographs and pictures greatly contributed to the succession and a war over slavery during the civil war douglas wrote a number of lectures. he also had created this sense of man the sense of commitment to the war and he wrote once you the black man get upon his person the breath letter us. let him get an eagle on his button and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket and there's no power on earth or under earth which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship in the united states. finding that quote and i use it often just in terms of in the aspect of the visuality of the experience of being photographed harry may weems is a contemporary artist who is central to my research. so i look she as we think about the missing history of images carrie may weems. creates this self-portraits and an antebellum dress style with with a q

i love the story of frederick douglass his life, his struggle, his triumph.people. but your book is so great because it takes a look at the way the constitution is looking. we would assume the abolition were all on the same page but that's not the case of the constitution has so? >> absolutely not. the famous boston abolitionist said the covenant with death in agreement with hell is dripping with human blood, proslavery. douglas originally agreed espouse that view for ten years. but then he studied legal history for himself. he interpreted if it ought to be interpreted the constitution is a glorious liberty document. look at the preambles secure the first month the second the fifth amendment, due process of law, all of these great principles coursing to the constitution pretty take all of those who enforce them and slavery has to fall. >> and their anti- constitution they were also pacifists. but douglas grew to realize that slavery could only be ended through force. how did that manifest >> douglass was no pacifists. his biography tells a remarkable story we

zimbardo experiments chip frederick he's. the man here he was the one who had the idea of putting electrodes on the hood his lawyer said the problem now is the military want to use him in a show trial in baghdad. in abu ghraib not only not a single scene office that went to trial not a single scene officer got a call letter of reprimand in fact in some cases they even got promoted in the offices so it's it's the people at the top always take care of the people at the top. we're still evaluating how we are going to approach the whole issue of interrogations detentions and so forth and i don't believe that anybody has but belong on the other hand i also have a belief that we need to look forward as los as opposed to looking looking backwards. we'll look forward to look backward go forward is going to be like backward if you don't do something about what happened in the past nobody has been held accountable for the torture that happened in the past and for this among other people i fault president obama essentially he gave every

he was the third top child born in scout county, iowa, on february 26th, 1846 and william frederick was the third child of isaac and mary cody and isaac moved the family to the newly organized territory of kansas settling near fortt 11 worth where he became a prominent advocate for free soil. he didn't want slavery extended into kansas for whatever reason. when he was giving an anti-slavery speech in 1854 he was taken from the platform and taken by pro slavery men and if you're able to go to the one free legislature in tone characters he was plagued by his woundsed and finally dying in 1857. his father was a martyr having shed, of course, the blood for cause for freedom in kansas. after his father's death young bill cody went to the freighty company of alexander, randal and they had contracted with our government because president james buchanan was trying to take the spotlight off tensions between the north and the south by having a war against the mormons out in utah who weren't obeying the government quite as well as they need to, and majors and russell provided the supply wagons to

and she also won 15 additional awards, including the frederick douglass prize. her 2011 study, of andrew johnson and the subject of her top this morning, was praised as brilliantly written and fair minded, and the book is not available in the book store today so you will have to order it, but i do have the most recent book her most recent book and that is coauthored, and it is titled the most blessed of patriarchs thomas jefferson and the empire of the imagination. she will be available for a few minutes after her presentation to sign autographs or sign books for you. so please help me welcome one of my favorite authors doug annette gordon-reed. >> thank you so much it is great to be here and last night was fabulous. the talk about stanton and the army corps, and the energy of the place. i'm usually in a room full of people who are enthusiastic about or interested in, or obsessed about thomas jefferson. and it is strange to be in a room, with people who are interested in and obsessed with somebody else. there are other people and other subjects and other things,

the highly acclaimed book also one, 15 additional awards, including the federal frederick douglass prize. her 2011 study of andrew johnson, the subject of her top this morning was praised as brilliantly ridden and law fear minded. the book is not available in the bookstore today. you'll have to order it, but i do have her most recent book have, and that is coauthored, and it is titled the most best of patriarchs thomas jefferson and the empire of imagination. she will be available for a few minutes after her presentation to sign books for you. so please help me welcome one of my favorite authors, a net gordon reid. (applause) >> thank you so much. it is great to be here. last night was just fabulous. the talk about stanton, the army corps, and the energy of course. i'm usually in a room of people who are enthusiastic or as insistent in or obsessed about thomas jefferson. and it's strange to be in a room with people who are interested, and obsessed with somebody else. there are people i am the subjects of other things. it was great, and i wrote a facebook post about, and now i said now i

he never got to where frederick douglass would have wanted him.e people frustrated that he has not done more, that he's not committed to certain issues, but he's gotten to the right place overall. and what he's trying to do right now is incredibly difficult. to literally heal a nation. in a pandemic, after you've had an insurrection, and with an economy like this, you have to heal a nation. i think history may look kindly on biden's efforts, the same way we look at lincoln. >> and when you have mother nature slowing down the vaccines from getting into people's arms, that, too. thank you, gentlemen. >> thank you. >>> 10:00 p.m., sunday night, the new "lincoln: divided we st stand". >>> and my book, it's coming out in just a few weeks. "this is the fire." it's coming out in just a few weeks. so check it out. and there's me on the back. thanks so much for watching. our coverage continues. oss. could've used that before i hired my interior decorator. voila! maybe a couple throw pillows would help. get a strategy gut check from our trade desk. ♪ re-ent

zimbardo experiments chip frederick he's. the man here he was the one who had the idea of putting electrodes on the hood his lawyer said the problem now is the military want to use him in a show trial in baghdad. in abu ghraib not only not a single scene office that went to trial not a single scene officer got the call letter of reprimand in fact in some cases they even got promoted in the office so it's it's the people at the top always take care of the people at the time. we're still evaluating how we are going to approach the whole issue of interrogations detentions and so forth and don't believe that anybody has but the law on the other hand i also have a belief that we need to look forward as los as opposed to looking looking backwards. will look forward to look backward go forward is going to be like backward if you don't do something about what happened in the past nobody has been held accountable for the torture that happened in the past and for this among other people i fault president obama essentially he gave every

for example frederick's labrador is training for some very special tasks to get help in emergencies by fetching the diabetes emerged. and seek it with a blood sugar meter insulin and dextrose. or he sounds the alarm if his master's blood sugar levels fluctuate too much. he's trained with a cloth bearing the scent of the patient when they were suffering from low blood sugar levels or hypoglycemia. and. lifesaving drugs for diabetics how does that work. for nothing. more than one of the able he has to give signals depending on smell that's common cause it could be a scratching around it could involve very high the emergency kit that's coming out for it can mean setting off an alarm down he doesn't have to do much more the important thing is that he can do it on his own he is not us is that standard marked. frederick has type one diabetes the dog has to warn him when he's about to develop hypoglycemia but doesn't work in practice. the time of us before yeah he's woke me 3 times when i was alone then he came to me and i checked the level he took something then gave him lots of praise. scie

he never got to where a frederick douglass would have wanted him, and yet he did great good.ld think that that same standard may well apply to biden. there are a lot of people who already are frustrated he hasn't done more, that he's not more committed to certain issues and causes. but i do think you're seeing somebody who has a complex road, but he's gotten to the right place overall. and what he is trying to do right now is incredibly difficult, to literally heal a nation. in a pandemic you got to heal a nation. after you've had an insurrection, you've got to heal an nation. then when you've got an economy like this, you've got to heal a nation. he's trying to be a healer. biden himself is complex. but i think that history may look kindly on his efforts in all their complexity the same way we look at lincoln. >> when you've got mother nature slowing down the efforts to get the vaccines into people's arms, that doesn't help as well. thank you, gentlemen. i appreciate it. thanks so much. so make sure you watch the all new cnn original series "lincoln: divided we stand." it ai

and obviously frederick douglass is one of them. he and douglas interact more than once while blinken's president. and blinken seems to be learning from each of the different position at first he's not by the end he's pretty much given douglas all that he wants. which is both reflecting how the wars progressing but he's not really afraid what douglas is saying and trying to maybe go that direction. i think he's practicing for blinken's gettysburg address. his daughter will later write that slade is mentioned blinken would read it out loud. which by the way is how he would practice he was constantly reading stuff out loud for people around him. practicing out loud. he would do that and we know the gettysburg address however short it was a will be the greatest two-minute ration in american history. in the person who seems to have been the primary sounding board there was an african-american and had known them for years. so that's all of the blinken story. the book is not endless it's only four -- five header pages pretty wish i could

and obviously frederick douglass is one of them. he and douglas interact more than once while lincoln was president and lincoln teams to be learning from each of those encounters and by the way changingposition . first he's meeting with douglas is not really getting douglas anything he wants and by the end he's pretty much giving douglas all that you want. which is both reflecting how the war is progressing but also showing lincoln is not afraid to really hear what douglas is saying trying to maybe go that direction. if that will work. i think john slade is reportedly there is the only person tolincoln practicing the gettysburg address . slade's daughter will write that slade mentions lincoln would read it out loud which by the way is exactly how lincoln would practice. he was possibly reading aloud to the people around him so he would do that and we know thatgettysburg address , however short it was may well be the greatest two-minute oration in american history so the person that seems to have been the primary sounding board was a

his father, frederick august kittle was a german baker. his mother was a black woman named daisy and is a cleaning lady. we are already talking about a mixed relationship. his mixed identity is a part of what he is working on when he is writing. like how he is negotiating african-american existence is a part of who and what he is as he works as a writer. it's part of the mission he is undertaking. he is the fourth of six children. they live in the hill district of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. a lot of what wilson talks about deals with the great migration. i have mentioned that before. the great migration is what happened after reconstruction in the south when the social status of black people moved from slavery to freed, to the reconstruction error, to sharecropping. sharecropping was this new name for, i don't think it's accurate for me to say lavery, but essentially that's what it becomes. we talked about what sharecropping is, right? good, thank you. it's a system where the black people who used to be slaves on the plantation are now in a

zimbardo experiments chip frederick he's. the man here he was the one who had the idea of putting electrodes on in the hood. his lawyer said the problem now is the military want to use him in a show trial in baghdad. in abu ghraib not only not a single senior office that went to trial not a single scene officer got a call letter of reprimand in fact in some cases they even got promoted the offices so it's it's the people at the top always take care of the people at the time. when we're still evaluating how we are going to approach the whole issue of interrogations detentions and so forth and i don't believe that anybody has but the law on the other hand i also have a belief that we need to look forward as los as opposed to looking looking backwards. look forward will look backward while forward is going to be like backward if you don't do something about what happened in the past nobody has been held accountable for the torture that happened in the past and for this among other people i fall president obama essentially he gav

to frederick small rigged up an alarm clock to detonate hours after he had an alibi. he went into boston. he was ours away and out of the bloom. the house you're ups in the flames and wife is found dead. and it turned out that he said it using an alarm clock. so after i read this i was so excited. oh my god. oh my god. i gotta go to the office. i gotta go to the office. is there an alarm clock? i'm looking look they're in the dresser. there's an alarm clock. well, there you go. unbelievable it's not what happened in this particular scenario, but i just i knew this this got to be based on the frederick small and and the alarm clock just sealed it for me. this is the only interactive one. and it's called unpapered bedroom. i can open it up. but if you pull this up you can look under the pillow. but i mean if you look it's the plaster has been patched. i don't know how she did that but those walls have been patched before if you look in the corner, it's just i'm just just the linoleum and sad, you know, it's just sort of the walls are kind of grimy. there's smudges aroun

frederick douglass had thought the meeting had gone fairly well. him and the delegation left. and afterward, just after they left, johnson was reported by a couple of the people at the meeting to have said this about frederick douglass. those blank sons of blank thought they had me in a trap. i know that blank douglas. he's just like any other blank and would sooner cut a white man's throat than not. pretty explicit, right? maybe it's just a one-off. well, congress voted to give african-americans the right to vote in 1866. johnson vetoes it. he's explained, said entirely -- and this is his words. johnson says, entirely disregarding the wishes of the people of the district of columbia, congress has deemed it right and expedient to pass the measure now submitted for my signature. it becomes the duty of executives standing between the legislation of the one and the will of the other to determine whether he should approve the bill and aid and impressing upon athe statute books of the nation the law for people to whom it is to apply such solemnly and uninamty protested. or should h

where was frederick douglass. why wasn't frederick douglass there because our scholarship, you know our circle there are three or four books on lincoln and on lincoln and douglas and yet the woman elizabeth keckley who he saw every day is first slade who he was very very involved with he used to take his son to play days. i mean the black community in washington was very involved in lincoln and as you point out, you know, there there was this importance of connecting lincoln to that legacy and i think harriet tubman is a part of the larger broader portrait of doing that in this particular film was one of the first now i will say a lot of my colleagues have problems with abraham lincoln vampire hunter and mike and justifiably so catherine any film that brings together harriet tubman and mary lincoln working together to win the battle of gettysburg. you've got to see it to believe it. i i think you know with something like abraham lincoln the web vampire hunter what has to take it as an allegory. it's a metaphor obv

sydney gay and martha coffin wright, and of course frederick douglass and henry highland garnett are also highlighted. the next section i'd like to talk about. is tubman's time during the civil war? so harriet tubman was a scout a spy and a nurse during the civil war and on june 1st 1863. she became the only woman to plan and execute an armed raid. so it was harriet tubman colonel james montgomery and the second south carolina color troops, and they took three steam-powered gunships, which you can see over there. you can see two of them and they chugged up the combee river about 25 miles into the depth of south carolina. they flooded rice fields, they burned plantations and they emancipated 750 to 800 people which is very significant because in tubman's time people were of course property. so that was a huge loss for the slave owners down there and that's what this is showing harriet tubman and a runabout or a smaller boat reaching down to rescue people to their emancipation and it shows women carrying anything that they could carry a basket. some chickens and children and that's a b

established in about an hour, a biography, frederick douglass, an american life about the former slave and abolitionist. in about 90 minutes the secrets of selling the negro a film commissioned by the founder of ebony magazine. ♪ >> i do not understand why you have to fight. what was it about this time? it is not christian. i do not want him fighting like a gangster. his father had the same kind of fight in this neighborhood. that is something that will never change. what can i do? fighting won't change, it has been this way for so long, thousands of years. of course he did not do anything. why, what is the difference why? you cannot change human nature. what other neighborhood? shangri-la? that is the way it has always been. i am only one mother, i cannot change the world. >> we cannot change the world, it was always thus. youngsters who say no jews allowed, grow to site america only for his kind, no niggers w anted, keep the pope out of america. in another country that same youngster becomes a stormtrooper. why was german youth taught race hatred? times were hard, jobs were not to be

he is the author of the political thought of frederick douglass. and the editor of the essential douglas and abraham lincoln and liberal democracy. his work has appeared in the "new york times" and many other publications but he is the elizabeth morse political science in oregon. and lives in portland tonight he's there to present his new book, the fire is upon us, james baldwin s buckley junior and the debate over race in america. please join me in joining and welcoming nicholar buccola. [applause] >> think i really appreciative that introduction. i just want to say how special it is to me, to be here in the space with all of the appeared i lived in pasadena only about three blocks in here for five years when i was in graduate school. and i would come to romans practically every wednesday with my mom, kathie was sitting right here in my late cousin katherine had begun to lemley, see a movie and hang out at romans it's really special for me to it be here tonight. tonight i'm going to talk to you about something that happened in this space. february

he's in frederick. he falls asleep a member from the war department staff will come up and wake him up at three clock in the morning and he says i've come to bring you trouble and his trouble is he's now in command of the army of the potomac and imagine one of our greatest operational military commanders in our nation history. robbery lee is now raging through the north the fate of the republic hangs in the balance and you have three days to try and unforkle this whole situation. that's what george gordon meade is handed on the 2. june we should ask ourselves. why would lincoln take the risk of changing the commanders now? he didn't know there's gonna be a battle fought in three days, but he knows there's going to be thought soon well his thought is if the commander has a different vision onto richmond then i have that strategic if i swap commanders, that's an operational or a tactical risk. i'm willing to take that. and so he changes the commander on the june now meade isn't lincoln's first choice. he'

frederick kaufman, thank you for joining us this evening. great to be here. >> it's great to see you. i'm enjoying this book so much and i-- you know, i thought we'd start off our conversation tonight with just -- money is a touchy subject. people have a lot of complicated feelings about money. my feelings with money are so complicated that i'm -- i normally only talk about money on moneys, but as a rule and anything that have to do with money stresses me out i only talk about money on mondays and that's it and the rest of the week i don't think about it. but-- why do we have such feelings about money? what does it represent to us as a culture? >> oh, i hate money and it's the worst thing and i want all of it, give me as much as soon as possible. we're conflicted because money when you really go back into prehistoric times and premarket, you find the idea of primitive money is really based on anxiety because what is money? money ultimately is that which is supposed to, in the best case, asuede anxiety. it supposed to give us security. it's s

in the facebook listing our clients aghast as frederick kaufman. he is a professor at the university of new york in the present newmark school of journalism. i got through that he is the author of the money plot which is a fascinating book out new. it is just a marvelous, marvelous read. i was up late finishing it last night it's just a fabulous read. and i want to -- were going to have about 20 minutes of conversation tonight, maybe some audience q&a to get your thoughts in here, the money and the history of money and currency. it is fascinating. i can't wait for you to join the conversation pretty did to also bring up that we are having our holiday event this saturday, a week from this saturday. so check us out there if you want to do that. all right, we're going to get started and bring our guests online here. >> frederick kaufman the author of "the money plot" sprayed welcome, welcome this evening. >> hi kelly vegas a much it's great to be here. >> i am enjoying this book so much. i thought we would start this conversation tonight with -- money

frederick douglass, william lloyd garrison as these famous historical actors. if you talk to someone, what were they taught in high school or college, they will probably tell you abolitionism really began in the 1830's and the antebellum time. i am pushing back on that and telling a longer, broader history. one of the things i'm trying to do is show is strict -- issues of slavery, race, african-american rights, these were issues hotly debated among americans black-and-white all the way from the beginning of the nation's founding. they didn't start in the antebellum era. another thing i'm trying to do is flush out and recover what i name movement abolitionism or the first abolition movement as a movement in its own right. the historians before me had very effective arguments for the different historical actors that make up the first abolition movement, actors i will talk about soon, but they had not chronicled the movement in its own right and that is a big part of what i am trying to do, to show that this movement was a movement, that it was a broad, cohesive v

jillian: the center for a new american security fellow cara frederick joins us now.nks for being here. >> thanks for having me. jillian: let's pull up the graphic that shows the big tech donations to the biden campaign, google with over 5.26 million, microsoft, 3.21 million, amazon nearing 3 million, apple nearing 2 million and facebook 1.85 million. what are we to take away from these numbers? >> well, jillian, frankly this doesn't surprise me at all. we knew back in december that some of these companies were the leading contributors to the biden campaign. what i think the wall street journal does that's new is this analysis should be read in the context of like you said at the top, what happened since election day. we need to think about the fact that these companies, they have their hands on the levers of power that are fundamentally transforming american society. and they have proven they are not afraid to use nose levers. look at -- those levers. look at big tech kicking off parler. what is most salient is the fact that these things have political outcomes. you'

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and the church that was attended by frederick douglass. it's been my pleasure to take you on this tour, and again it's one of three exhibitions here at the smithsonian national museum of natural ashram erik and history. and you can look at these items and other exciting off exciting objects here at our museum. it's a human story, a shared history we have. thank you at the end of the civil war, african americans who released from bondage, search to have their own lives with their own resources. one of the first things that many of them have done is try to connect with family members who have been separated during slavery. they traveled a country they put ads in newspapers, and primarily church-related newspapers. seeking to find their info. they wrote letters to the friedman bureau, they wanted to reconnect and build communities amongst themselves. and so one of the major elements of that process was wider society. a number of them reconnected with their families, and created towns where they built not only their homes like this building ri

his father's name was frederick august kittle. he was a german baker. i want you guys to pay attention race matters in a very specific way racist always one of the things that we're discussing as we look at these plays so his father frederick august kittle was a german baker. so he's white or he's european and then his mother is a black woman named daisy, right? and she's a cleaning lady. i want you to understand where we're already talking about a mixed relationship when so his mixed identity is a part of what he's working on when he's writing like how he is negotiating african-american existence is a part of who and what he is as he's working as an artist and a writer. it's part of the mission that he's undertaking. he is the fourth of six children, so, and they live in the hill district of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. a lot of what wilson's going to talk about deals with the great migration. i've mentioned that in this class before the great migration is what happened after reconstruction in the south when? the social status of black people moved from s

>> guest: frederick douglass was a big influence on her. she was in her mid-20s and he saw talent in her and encouraged her and provided opportunities from her. he was a big influence, introduced her husband, my great-grandfather. the influence he was, a lot of colleagues she worked with mary churchill, w e b du bois, marcus garvey, madison walker, it is almost a who's who. and it makes sense, citizenship for african-americans. they had conventions during that time so they did address each other quite a bit. >> host: you mentioned mostly men, people with whom she interacted, men who put themselves in these positions of leadership but there were women. you may have mentioned someone, sorry if i didn't catch it. any other women who were her colleagues or help guide her? >> guest: in her autobiography when i was doing my research, they were both cofounders of the naacp, cofounders of the -- he also interacted and had a friendship with susan b anthony. she did interact with women in a slightly different way. the fight for women's rights and the