northern abolitionists were outraged by the kansas the brassica act. abolitionists hated slavery but could live with it as long as it stayed below 3630. slavery could conceivably spread all the way west to the pacific ocean. armed and heavily financed groups of abolitionists that by newington concerns, boston, connecticut, rhode island, maine, ohio, they poured in, antislavery men and women poured into kansas to stop kansas from becoming a slave state. missourians saw these yankees pouring into the kansas territory and they knew they would have a fight on their hand. the mixture of abolitionists and proslavery mingling, the territory exploded in violence warfare, terrorism, and it attracted men like john brown and his sons. starting in 1854, a low grade war began in kansas and nickname bleeding kansas. from 1854 until kansas became a free state in 1861, or was going on in kansas territory over who would control this territory. it was ground zero for the slave issue in the country. once you are designated as a territory by the united states government,

the kansas-nebraska act was a call to arms for abolitionists. particularly, those in the east new england states. northern abolitionists were outraged by the kansas-nebraska act. they hated slavery abolitionists did, but they could live with it as long as it state the load 36/30. now slavery conceivably spread all the way to the pacific ocean. so armed and heavily financed groups of abolitionists backed by new england concerns and eight societies, boston connecticut, rhode island, maine, ohio, new york they reported anti-slave -- -- anti-slavery abolitionist to stop kansas from becoming a slave state. missouri saw these yankees pointing to kansas territory they knew they were going to have a fight on their hands, and the mixture of abolitionists and proslavery mingling together in kansas territory -- the territory exploded in violence warfare, terrorism. it attracted men like john brown and his sons and starting in 1854, a low-grade, pre-civil war began in kansas. it was nicknamed bleeding kansas. 1854 until kansas became a free state, 1861, war

what we are looking at is a letter deposed by the famous militant abolitionist john brown, sr. it is known as john brown's parallels. it was published in january 1859. this letter was written with the intent for it to be published in a lawrence newspaper. it was basically john brown paralleling two incidents in bleeding kansas and justifying his actions in misery. -- in missouri. two plantations were attacked by john brown and his followers. one slave master was murdered. john brown, in this letter, said that in may of 1958, 11 to 12 free statesmen were taken prisoner, herded into a ravine, and shot down by proslavery men. this became known as the -- five of those men died. in this parallel, john brown is saying, after the death of this one slave master, hell is stirred from beneath. the governor of missouri, the president of the united states, james buchanan, issued a reward for the capture of john brown for the death of -- the murder of this slave master in misery. john brown argues nothing has been done to bring these proslavery men that slaughtered the free state men to jus

for abolitionist audiences. people who would have found slavery to be morally reprehensible. frederick douglass does interesting things in that set genre. he talks about a woman who taught him how to read. why talk about his luck, he is not lucky. slavery does not make you lucky. but he does end up in baltimore, which makes him an urban slave. in fact, he had the ability to start to make money on his own. these are things we will read about. he starts to make money on his own. but what he gets is this ability to read text, and the mistress the one who teaches -- and she gets in trouble by her husband for teaching him how to read -- but she teaches him how to read the bible and other texts. she allows for him to learn how to read. this is his skill. douglass will tell you, i would say it is ingenious. there are these white schoolboys and they have these grammars. he becomes friends and gets him to give him a grammar, so he starts teaching himself to read as well. you're going to get more about the narrative when

battle of blackjack, from here come about 30 miles east, you've got these irregular battles between abolitionists, free stators, slave stators 40 guys from generally missouri or another state that was proslavery at that time, and in the free stators fighting on the other side. it is the beginning of the civil war that happens here, which is great tragedy of a war for the country, but it is the fight about slavery, and it starts here. my mom grew up on the property where john brown would stay when he was in a format kansas. they were yelling in at him -- is that us wateroswatame brown? he declares there will not be peace until the issue of slavery assault, and of course 10 years later we have got the civil war and it was a very pathetic statements, and it was a very difficult but incredibly important time for this country. >> kind of looking at these famous names that have come from kansas, i mean from vice president charles curtis to bob dole, kansas has been really involved in national politics. are there any other kansas politicians who have influenced you or your political ideals? governor bro

these narratives were written and published on this exclusively by abolitionists and intended for abolitionists audiences. douglas does interesting things within that already set genre. one of those is he spends and a norma's amount time talking about a woman who teaches him how to read. when i talk about douglas's luck, he is actually not lucky. slavery does not make you lucky. he does end up in baltimore which makes him an urban slave. he has the ability to start to make money on his own. these are things you will read about. he makes money on his own. what he gets is this ability to read texts. the mistress, the one who teaches him -- and she gets in trouble for teaching him to read -- she teaches hand to read the bible. she allowed for, let's put it that way allowed him to learn how to read. douglas but friended a group of schoolboys, white schoolboys, and they have grammars. he makes friends with them and gets them to teach him grammar. he teaches himself. you will get more about the narrative when you read it. it is this idea about a slave who has access to reading, that allowed him to ch

nebraska supposed to be a free state, kansas a slave state, maintain the balance of power, but in the abolitionist movement comes, and says will not let kansas be a slave state, and they start sending people here from ohio and the northeast. they did not come in here to farm, that is what they did, they cannot hear to fight against slavery, so you have the battle of the civil wars, the battle of blackjack, from here come about 30 miles east, you've got these irregular battles between abolitionists, free stators, slave stators, 40 guys from generally missouri or another state that was proslavery at that time, and in the free stators fighting on the other side. it is the beginning of the civil war that happens here, which is great tragedy of a war for the country, but it is the fight about slavery, and it starts here. my mom grew up on the property where john brown would stay when he was in osawatomie, kansas. you may remember at harpers ferry, where brown was, and they were yelling in at him -- is that osawatomie brown? he lost his son in that battle. he declares there will not be peace until the i

it runs all the way from this small number of outright abolitionists, two people who just don't like slavery. they are not going to do anything about it but they don't like it. trying to galvanize that spectrum as part of the war effort is one of the chief problems lincoln has to face. curiously enough the confederates do it for him. shortly after the outbreak of the war, the confederate government begins to conscript on a large basis black slaves as laborers. some people say they were black soldiers. no there weren't. if you can show them mustering in papers i will be persuaded. the black people who end up working for the confederacy are doing it under duress because they are slaves. the confederacy will draft conscript slave labor to build fortifications, to do all the logistical palling -- hauling in caring. northerners see this, and they see that this is actually a system in the confederate army. it is prolonging the war. it is getting their sons killed. northerners who were not abolitionists, but who were run-of-the-mill anti-slavery and didn't get excited about it, now they had

people are not so much persuaded by the morality of the abolitionists who remain a narrow strand on the spectrum. what they are persuaded off is that we have to get rid of slavery because slavery is what is helping the confederacy drag this war out. that makes people willing to sign on to emancipation. even then there remains a large portion of the northern electorate which is a very hostile to emancipation. this is why lincoln in august of 1862 has to dangle the bait of colonization. because colonization which promises once you emancipated slaves they will be deported , someplace else. this is the sugarcoating that has to be put on this to persuade northern whites to embrace emancipation. was lincoln ever serious about colonization? not on those terms. but he was, like many cosan nation colonizationists willing , to use it as a way of getting people, northern to say yes to emancipation. ironically, the most persuasive case, which was made before northern opinion, in favor of emancipation, it is not the case made by the abolitionists who continue to be looked upon as being fuzzy haired

that -- especially with the growth of the abolitionist press, that the abolitionist press starts to seehese kind of things that julia is doing in the white house, this level of extravagance as being yet another example of the corruption of the slave party. how -- particularly in -- during a distressed economic period how could they possibly be doing that? the only way they could be doing that is because they are gathering all of their wealth and benefits from the fact that they own other people. so -- so the -- in terms of a growth of that, of that abolitionist press and the abolitionists send people just to keep an eye on the tyler white house and report back on things like this, that what julia is doing is in fact, in some quarters, very detrimental to that broader image while in other quarters, you know, it's very beneficial to supporting the idea of the imperial presidency. edna: it appears to a certain extent that she redeems herself when she responds to the duchess of sutherland who had criticized slavery at america and she writes a letter back and says pretty much, you need to ta

finally, he reaches the abolitionist hotbed of new bedford, massachusetts, where free african-americanses work together to keep slave catchers from rounding up fugitives. he never forgets those first anxious days of freedom in the northeast. at around the same time, a rising illinois politician, lincoln delivers his first major speech in his new home town of springfield, illinois. to condemn the horrors that have befallen white and black lovers of freedom in the northwest. >>> freedom. >> it was a moment of the highest excitement i ever experienced. i felt like one who had escaped a den of lions. the state of mind, however, soon subsided and i was again seized with a feeling of great insecurity and loneliness. i was yet liable to be taken back and subjected to all the tortures of slavery. this in itself was enough to damp the harder of my enthusiasm. the motto i adopted was this -- trust no man. to understand, imagine yourself a fugitive slave in a strange land. a land given up to be the hunting ground of slaveholders. whose inhabitants are legalized kidnappers, where he is without home

he wrote to his brother in the war, quote, i'm more an abolitionist than ever now, right up to the handle. if i had money enough to raise a few hundred contrabands, means escaped slaves, and arm them, i would get up an insurrection among the slaves.t." i told the captain i would desert to do it. that is bravado i suspect. he did not lead any mutiny that o we know of. -- organizers of a contraband to kept have an insurrection but letters kept flowing. and in 1861 and 1862 he denounces lincoln and the lincoln administration. he's impatient. he's angry that the war is not es officially a war to free the slaves. he does not get it. the thinks the war is caused by slavery, why not fight to free the slaves? he writes home in early 1862 i'm quoting him the president's contest will indeed settle the wheth questioner as to whether union or secession shall triumph but slavery will not be reached. he's impatient. he's angry. by late spring 1862, he writes to his brother wishing, he had the said he had the miranda rule courage to dessert that the union army has not begun to fight against slavery? he

>> hickok continues his abolitionist ways working in the union army.mes to the rescue of one of his fellow scouts a 12-year-old named william cody. the two would remain lifelong friends. >> you all right, son? >> yeah. >> you two fellas like picking on children? >> hickok's sense of justice, greatly influenced by his parents caused him to get into situations where he should always stand up for right. he was a defender of the down trodden and those who could not help themselves. >> the restless hickok makes his way west and finds work with the pony express. >> the pony express is the fastest means of communication. so what towns are doing are setting up stations along the way and it's at one of the relay stations that wild bill heck kokickok has his brush with violence and pain. >> the owners of the rock creek station are in debt to dave mccanles and he wants his money or the deed to the property. >> we don't have it. >> he's right. we ain't got it. >> horace there's someone coming. >> >> dave is here with his son james. >> ladies, you better go to the

. >>> up next a debate inspired by the writings and correspondence of president lincoln and abolitionist doug lass. they never argued their views on slavery, the war, or racial politics. actor steven lang and norm louis take on the roles of lincoln and douglass during the debate. the metro poll tan museum of art hosted this hour long event. [ applause ] >>> in their entire eventful lives they met face-to-face only three times, maybe four at most. when they timely did they spent their time locked in political combat. one was a proud and brilliant radical, aggressive advocate for racial justice who ran out of patience with the status quo. the other was an ingenious g gradualist master of art of compromise timing leading from behind. one would save the union and slowly cure its major birth defects, slavery, the others frees slaves immediately even if it meant destroying union and the slavery together. they expressed views with uncommon eloquence. two orators in an age of great or story. they developed a cautious mutual respect and ultimately genuine mutual admiration. two great men whose fu

this is a letter composed by the famous militant abolitionist of the kansas territory, john brown senior. it is known as john brown's parallels. it was published in january of 1859. this letter was written with the intent for to be published in a lawrence newspaper. it was basically john brown paralleling two incidents in bleeding kansas and justifying his actions in missouri. two plantations were attacked by john brown and his sons and followers. one slave master was murdered. and john brown in this letter says that in may of 1858 11 or 12 free statement were taken prisoner and herded down into a ravine and shot down by proslavery men. this became known as the infamous massacre. five of those men died. in this parallel, john brown is saying after the death of this one slave master, "hell has stirred from beneath." the president of united states james buchanan issued a reward for the capture of john brown for the death, the murder of this slave master in missouri. john brown argues that nothing is been done to bring these proslavery men who slaughter these five free statement at the mass

>> hickok continues his abolitionist ways working in the union army.mes to the rescue of one of his fellow scouts, a 12-year-old named william cody. the two would remain lifelong friends. >> you all right, son? >> yeah. >> you two fellas like picking on children? >> hickok's sense of justice, greatly influenced by his parents, caused him to get into situations where he should always stand up for right. he was a defender of the down trodden and those who could not help themselves. >> the restless hickok makes his way west and finds work with the pony express. >> the pony express is the fastest means of communication. so what towns are doing are setting up stations along the way and it's at one of the relay stations that wild bill heck ic has his brush with violence and pain. >> the owners of the rock creek station are in debt to dave mccanles and he wants his money or the deed to the property. >> we don't have it. >> he's right. we ain't got it. >> horace, there's someone coming. >> dave is here with his son james. >> ladies, you better go to the cellar

the methodists tried to be abolitionist's in the south. they simply could not do it. they could not survive in the deep south. religion pushes, culture pushes, and somewhere in the messy middle you get something and then it changes. amanda: i would say the combination of panic suffering and nationbuilding, that those three things go a long way to making this tremendous explosion of religious growth. panic, people who have been in power, religiously and politically and economically see this as a huge, mass content. they see these immigrants coming in. they are losing control. they want to dominate. panic among people -- stephen: than how does the growth help them dominate? amanda: because they are the growers. there are some of the leading growers. so -- stephen: so, they are thinking as there is more appearance to their tradition, they're going to be able to have more social power? amanda: yes, and you can extend the strength and geographical scope of domination, for example, as a way of creating these national networks that have a rich are -- rhetorical claim. a big

so -- so the -- in terms of a growth of that abolitionist press and the abolitionists send people just to keep an eye on the tyler white house and report back on things like this, that what julia is doing is in fact in some quarters, very detrimental to that broader image while in other quarters, you know, it's very beneficial to supporting the idea of the imperial presidency. edna: twoo a certain extent that she redeems herself when she responds to the duchess of sutherland who had criticized slavery at america and she writes a letter back and says pretty much, you need to take care of business at home. you've got people from the lower classes there who were starving. and so she doesn't say slavery is right but she does imply that slavery's not as bad as what's happening. susan: joe is in palmerton pennsylvania. you are on for the panel. go ahead please. caller: hi, i love your series. i read somewhere that john tyler played the violin. did any of his wives play any musical instrument? susan: do we know? taylor: i haven't the faintest clue. i'd be certainly -- he certainly -- but john

find refuge and gain assistance to be transported to nebraska and into iowa, and turned over to abolitionists in iowa, where they will be helped to canada, where they will ultimately find themselves free. so the underground railroad becomes a less violent manifestation of bleeding kansas. the same people are involved. the ritchies, for example, are the same people involved in trying to weaken the fabric of slavery in missouri, and helping runaways succeed. we have an active underground railroad operation from 1957 -- 1857-1859 and so on in this house plays a role in that. you have people like the ritchies, who come to kansas because they see kansas as an opportunity to create a new society from the ground up. and in that sense, it will be opportunity for themselves and -- but also opportunity for them to shape the institutions in a way that will conform to what they believe to be their value system. now, one of the things that ritchie will do is he will be , committed to not only prohibition and temperance, and women's rights, and african-american rights, but he will also be interested in edu

giddings was an abolitionist. it was not just abolitionist or people in new england who saw issues of slavery being important to the war. a lot of people felt if the united states did annex large portions of mexico, it would make slavery spread and make the slave power stronger. it was not just people in new england who held this view. consider for a moment this popular print of the war. maybe some of you have seen this. when you look at it, it is a neat image of the power of newspapers in the 1840's. this was by a well-known and respected artist at the time. at first it looks like an image of people being enthusiastic about the war. they just got news about the war in their newspapers. in fact, the u.s.-mexico war was the first war where journalists traveled and were embedded with troops. journalists traveled with the troops and wrote back stories. this is the first war where people are getting immediate news from a firsthand account from journalists traveling with the troops. look at the image more closely. i sh

as a tame version of that song, there were really radical versions of that song that was really abolitionist. you can find miserable versions of how the slaves are -- they are absolutely trying to push him that way. push his image, rather. they could not influence him. >> does that imply that lincoln in life could not have created that national identity you talked about? david: could you ask the question again? >> the implication that lincoln had to die to create this national identity in light with his program -- david: i don't think even walt whitman believe that. he called lincoln a kind of cement. he really did strengthen the sense of the nation. before the civil war, united states was a floral world and afterwards it was singular. it was largely because of his example. i mentioned some of the negatives, but there's so much patriotism on his behalf. james mcpherson is right when he says the northern view one in spite of later jim crow. ultimately, the lincoln view wins. i like to think if he had lived he still would have been quite effective even though he was charitable of his feelings

by hippies i mean they're radical abolitionists. so they tried to pushilin con in an even more radical direction than he really was. he only ran on a ticket opposing the extension of slavery into the west. he didn't really run on what we call positive liberty, positive liberty is when the government steps in and tries to defend human rights and create legislation that is positive liberty. and most aft amendof the amendments before the civil war was examples of negative, hands off but the time the song was written he wasn't really quite there yet. but for the hutchison family singers, he really was. and just a few things. he was born in kentucky. he lived in indiana, hoosiertum and the sucker, refers to a fish. i mean illinois, the suckers is illinois. and when he says -- when they say, our good david sling is unairing the slave giant. talking about the little giant steven douglas who in the debates over slavery lincoln slew him. not really. i mean some people think douglas actually won those debates. but if you're the hippies back t

women got their training in the abolitionist movement. there were also a lot of working-class women involved early on. in 1840's, 1850's, you had all of those bloodbaths going on at the factories in lowell and the mining camps out west. thousands of poor people dying. my understanding is some of the suffragettes saying crossed the line. really not getting poverty conditions in the life-and-death conditions of the working class women. they mostly laughed. the suffragettes are saying if you get the vote, it will be good. our men have the vote and it is not good it is not working. after this civil rights, after the civil war when black men got the vote, that made a lot of white women angry in my understanding is that it basically turned their back. a lot of racism down the south with racist banners in those suffragists. it was breaking frederick douglass' heart, who was a strong advocate for women's rights. it was not until the labor movement started picking up at the end of the 1900s -- i'm sorry, 1800s, that the labor movement started pick

then the abolitionist movement comes together and says, we will not let kansas be a slave state. they start sending people here from ohio and the northeast. they did not come out here to form. that is what they did. they came out here to fight against slavery. you got the initial battle of the civil war from here to about 30 miles east. you have got your regular -- your regular battles -- irregular battles. another state was proslavery at that time. and then the free staters fighting on the other side. it is the beginning of the civil war that happens here, a great tragedy of a war for the country, but it is the fight about slavery and it starts here. my mom grew up on a property were john brown would stay when he was in kansas. you may remember where brown was , they are saying, is that brown? he lost his son in the battle. he declares there will not be peace until the issue of slavery is resolved. 10 years later, we have got the civil war and it was a prophetic statement and a very difficult but incredibly important time for this country. >> kind of looking at these famous name

one woman was an abolitionist and a suffragist and a balm for basically but she was the first woman who'd been allowed to report out of the capital press gallery. before the war. she was in kicked out of the capital press gallery because she wrote vicious truths. you know she actually wrote that daniel webster was a drunk and then men were poor fight. again, i that is so recognizable because the same thing had happened when we women journalists started covering political campaigns and got on the bus and the boys on the bus or taken a vow of o'meara to and we hadn't. we actually wrote what went on on the campaign trail. i remember i remember once coming back after some trip and i was on the brink we show and, of course i was the only woman, and i said something along the lines, we do report it everything what the candidates are not too. it's relevant. and, of course, we tell stories from the trail, and a lot of hard best friends are the other correspondence lives. this look of total terror came over the guys faces, and the timekeeper for the show said they were 45 solid minutes of silence

by hippies, they were abolitionists. they pushed lincoln farther. he did not run on positive liberties, when the government tries to defend human rights and create legislation that is positive liberty. most of these amendment before the civil war were examples of negative liberties like hands-off. lincoln and the civil war created positive liberty. at the time that the song was written, he was not there yet. for the hutchinson family singers, he was. just a few things, he was born in kentucky, he lived in indiana , and this other term, i think it refers to his fish, illinois. when they say "our good david slaying -- " they are talking about the slave, davis. if you are the hutchinson family, the hippies, you thought that lincoln won. this other term is a reference to lincoln cutting trees. it goes something like -- [singing] will go from the sun of kentucky. the hero of hoosier. for lincoln and liberty too. [applause] i should be saying sorry about that. it reminds me, sometimes popular songs can be a little edgy. it reminds the of the 1960's when "

the abolitionist of the 19th century had to work for half a century to bring down slavery.the early 20th century millions work for a living. lewis hines photos shocked america's conscience. it was economic distress that pushed kids out of dangerous work and into schools. concerns about freedom and equality drove the civil rights movement. less talked about is the cold war and the worries about damage to the u.s. from pictures of brutal cops, fire hoses and police dogs. marriage for same-sex couples game a long way in a short time. for all the courtroom and valid battles, i'd pay attention to commerce. along with activists and comerts filing briefing, with 379 businesses and destroyer groups, verizon, price waterhouse and others, for them the limitation assist over. it hurts business, and that will help push society a little faster closer to its destination. thank you for joining us. see you next time. i'm ray suarez. >> on "america tonight". what keeps a dream deferred. >> kids who group in low income distressed neighborhoods on average had lower levels of completed scoring

abolitionist put it, that address is a slap in the face to loyal union soldiers, how dare he say thatc. >> caller: yes, thank you so much for your work on this, and, in fact, i have it before me, and i want to tell the audience ou that in your chapter on defeating the liberation, you give more coverage, nice ion of coverage of the u.s. colored troops and reaction of the former slaves people who were enslaved right there. where a >> that's right. >> i wanted to ask you today to talk about where are the u.s. his colored troops today?ond i don't see them there and this the is my second time watching the program. where are they represented?repres where are the people represented? i just don't see that today, and, of course you talk about william harrison who says he was with grant, you know former owner slave that had followed his owner as a body servant. could you please talk more about the role that the u.s. colored troops people had there, and why we don't see them there today? thank you. >> absolutely. it's a fascinating story.this c there have been in the course of this commemoration

. >> reporter: and at her memorial in harlem, they are celebrating the abolitionist who helped slaves escape on the underground railroad who in her roads never lost a passenger. >> she helped us get through great struggles and she deserves to be on the $20 bill. >> reporter: more than 600,000 people cast ballots and in the end only 7,000 votes separated tubman from eleanor roosevelt, part of a months long movement to convince the treasury to put a woman on the 20. >> part of the requirement is, the woman must not be alive. i don't want it that bad. >> reporter: el 11 may be out but we all know that washington is getting in on it. >> we all know that the all mighty dollar speaks. what if it had a woman's voice. >> reporter: putting woman on the 20 doesn't need approval from congress, just the president's treasury secretary which is why organizers delivered a petition to the white house today and hope this hashtag catches on. what message do you have for the president then? >> i think that the president should definitely put a woman on the $20 bill because we are power powerful. >> repo

in this country not 200 years ago both slave owners and abolitionists not only used the same bible toy their viewpoints. they used the same verses to do so. i mean, that's the thing about scripture. its power comes from its malleable. you can read it in any way you want to. if you had a violent misogynist, you will find plent net koran or the bible to justify your viewpoint. if you're a peaceful feminist, you will find just as much in those scriptures to justify your viewpoint. >> jon: what if you're a jew who loves a bacon egg sandwich? is there-- is there something for me? ( cheers and applause ) there's got to be something. >> i would recommend the book of mormon for you. >> gl i knew it! but that is point. >> exactly. the point is without interpretation scripture is just words on a page. it requires somebody to read it, to encounter it for it to have any kind of meaning, and obviously in that transaction you are bringing yourself, your views your politics, your social ideas into the text. how you read scripture has everything to do with who you are. god does not make you a bigot.

again, he hated the abolitionists.o much so that he traveled in 1859 to watch john brown being hanged. and then he changed his story. he had difficulty with reality. he joined a bunch of southern richmond guards to go to the hanging of john brown, and then later on he said he had a role in the hanging, which he didn't. and over exalted ego, a sense of self. he quarreled frequently with his family about the south and secession and slavery. edwin, the older brother, once threw him out of his house and said i never want to see you or speech you again. when booth made disparaging remarks about african-americans. he possibly come in all likelihood probably was a confederate spy and career. -- courior. he made a journey to montrÉal where he stayed for 10 days. montrÉal was where a lot of confederate operatives were hanging out. he certainly met with them, but we don't quite know exactly what happened. booth -- or markable story. attended lincoln's second inaugural address. on march 4, 1865. he was invited, and he got a ticke

and bush whackers face off against the abolitionist.th sides of the divide fighting in a local level and using brutal tactics. on the james' family farm she is busy shaping the next generation of bush whackers and she sos it as her duty to fight for the confederacy. >> don't take anything from the yankees. it is every man's responsibility to hang o. >> her coaching is what criminalologist is violence conditioning. we own slaves and no one is taking that away from us. seeing violence as a way of life he absorbs that attitude from her. the family farm is a confederate strong hold. frank and jesse are a force that the north will have to reckon with. on april 12th, 1861. the civil war begins. and frank james is plunging in the battle and fighting with the confederate army. she knows that jesse will join him and both sons will be at war for the cause. >> you are going to fight for the confederacy. your way of life. don't let me down. >> the unionilitia in the area started to look for the bush whackers. and zurledda told everyone that frank w

. >> and at her memorial in harlem they're celebrating the abolitionist who helped slaves escape in theords never lost a passenger. >> she deserves to be on the $20 bill. >> more than 600,000 people cast votes online and in the end, only 7,000 votes separated tub man from eleanor roosevelt. >> actually the one requirement is the women can't be alive. and i don't want it that bad. >> reporter: ellen may be out, but even washington's getting in on it. >> we all know that the all mighty dollar speaks what if it had a woman's voice? >> reporter: still, putting a woman on the 20 doesn't need approval from congress just the president's treasury secretary. which is why organizers delivered a petition to the white house today. >> what message do you have for the president, then? >> i think the president should definitely put a woman on the $20 bill. we are powerful. a powerful pick who reminds us every great dream begins with a dreamer. >> dear mr. president. >> a message and a movement to make it right on the money. >> hallie jackson nbc news los angeles. >>> that will do it for us on this tue

they would bring perhaps a couple of personal servants but things had become iffier about as abolitionistment grew in the north. and it became less and less possible to bring slaves to free territories as the washington's had for example. swain: so, jackson wins election and comes to the washington. and tell of the story of his inaugural party. henderson: well, he leaves the - he has the inauguration, he rides on horseback back to the presidents house and the public is invited. but there were about 20,000 people who had attended the inauguration. so the house is open to the public and this is the democratic republic - the people of the west and they crash the house and they dance on the tables, they drink all the wine. there was 1,600 pounds cheese that it been sent as a gift to the new president but was completely devoured during this time. so the white house was really, really bitten up pretty bad. even jackson himself had to be escorted out of this because they were afraid for his safety. brady: he left the party early. he went back to his hotel to go to bed. swain: over our past sever

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the abolitionist won a narrow victory yesterday over eleanor roosevelt and rosa parks in the unofficial on 20s poll. more than 600,000 people cast their votes in the ten-week poll. it's part of a campaign launched earlier this year that is pushing for a woman's portrait to replace that of andrew jackson on the $20 note. the campaign got a boost when senator jeanne shaheen introduced the amply titled women on the 20 act on equal pay day. let's hope it happens. that does it for me on this wednesday edition of "way too early." let's go to mika for a preview of "morning joe." horrific scene in philadelphia. >> it's really bad. we're live in philadelphia, luke where at least five people are dead more than 100 injured after an amtrak train derailed on the way to new york. we're going to have the latest on the investigation as survivors begin to tell their stories, and there are still some unaccounted for. >>> and new york city mayor bill de blasio joins the table again. he's been traveling the country, hoping to spark a progressive movement, but is all that work hurting his standing here at h

more than 600,000 vote the woman participants want to replace andrew jackson on the $20 bill is abolitionistn. tubman received more than 118,000 votes just ahead of eleanor roosevelt. they hope it will convince the treasury secretary, they would like to see a woman on the 20 by 20 eradication of the amendment giving women the right to vote. >> i put you on the $20 bill. >> harriet tubman -- a lot of women have good things for us. >> i'm cheryl jennings and i'm dan ashley for sandhya patel and michael finney we >>> breaking news tonight. the urgent search right now. the american military helicopter missing. six marines among those on board. the chopper helping after a second massive earthquake hits nepal. while on the ground tonight, the race to save the newest victims. >>> here at home, the emergency landing. passengers staying on the plane as they race to extinguish the engine. >>> harsh words for tom brady. tonight, the lead investigator for the nfl comes out swinging. you'll hear what he's saying now about the quarterback. >>> breaking news. homeland security agents raiding a clothing dri