we have songs written by abolitionists that would have been sung at different meetings of abolitionists. we even have teaching for abolitionists children. you a feel for the alphabet but also gives you a form attached to each letter that talks about some negative aspect of slavery. these things were very effective teaching tools at the time. that, we have things that would have been circulated in northern newspapers. otherhotograph was emancipated slaves that would have been found in northern newspapers quite a bit after the .ugitive slave law is passed the back parlor would have been more of a private family space where harriet would have spent time with her husband and can doctors living here. -- and hurt and daughters living here. he may be reading to each other and writing or playing the piano. it was more of a relaxation space than a public, formal entertaining space. when visitors come into this room, we don't allow them to touch anything or set on any of the chairs. we have reproduced the circular letter which sometimes will be passed around. now that we have seen her back clerk,

british abolitionists invited. beecher stowe over the grand tour, someone who had never been abroad at all, the daughter of the yankee minister, not coming from money and her husband and she did not make a lot of money so this is quite something first for her to be thrown into celebrity and receive money all of a sudden but also to be taken and treated as royalty in such a way. was presented with a number of gifts, one of which was 26 large volumes just like this, this is one of them, and petition signed only by women, they contain half a million signatures of women who believed slavery should end in the united states and the idea was carried beecher stowe was to take this, use it as a political, use it for political purposes to really end slavery in the united states so this is a year after uncle tom's cabin was out as a book and all these women, half a million signatures were collected in a grassroots efforts. we believe by when in church groups, however sort of women's groups match, stacks of petition papers wou

we even had teaching tools for abolitionist children. this, for example, gives you a feel for the alphabet but also gives you a poem attach to each letter that talks about negative aspects of slavery. these were effective teaching tools at the time. even more than that, we have photos that would've been circulated in northern newspapers to gain support for abolitionism. this is the photo here of a massive pay to slaves -- of emancipated slaves that would've been found in newspapers. the back parlor would have been more of a private parlor space where harriet would have spent time with her husband or her two daughters. they may be reading to each other. they may be playing the piano. it was more of a relaxation space than a formal entertaining space. when visitors come into this room, we don't allow them to touch anything or sit on any chairs, although we have reproduced the circular letter, which sometimes we will pass around. now that we have seen harriet's back parlor, we will go into a more private space, harriet's bedroom. we have a

we even had teaching tools for abolitionist children.his, for example, gives you a feel for the alphabet but also gives you a poem attach to each letter that talks about negative aspects of slavery. so, these were effective teaching tools at the time. even more than that, we have photos that would've been circulated in northern newspapers to gain support for abolitionism. this is the photo here of a emancipated slaves that would've been found in newspapers. the back parlor would have been more of a private parlor space where harriet would have spent time with her husband or her two daughters. they may be reading to each other. they may be writing letters. they may be playing the piano. it was more of a relaxation space than a formal entertaining space. when visitors come into this room, we don't allow them to touch anything or sit on any chairs, although we have reproduced the circular letter, which sometimes we will pass around. now that we have seen harriet's back parlor, we will go into a more private space, harriet's bedroom. here we

, abolitionist standards. this piece by paul lawrence dunbar is part of a series that dunbar sort of emanant, 20th 20th century black poet, did as a collaboration with a camera club at hampton university. members of the camera club photographed their neighbors there, and paired those images with poems by dunbar. these series of books were probably from the best-selling books that dunbar produced, and then they also point to that tension between the evolving image of free blacks and the new free black nation within america, and the older images and how to negotiate that. and that was an issue that dunbar dealt with in poetry as well. a lot of the poetry is dialect poetry, attempting to bring along cultural idioms and ideas he inherited from his parents and grandparents and others who has been enslaved and make them new and interesting for an audience that was living beyond slavery. this case brings us into the early 20th century, and the period of the new negro. these first books by booker t. washington, the au

and abolitionist standards. this piece by paul lawrence dunbar is part of a series that dunbar sort of imminent 19 come early 20th century black poet did as a collaboration with a camera club at hampton university. members of the camera club photograph their neighbors and paired those images with poems by dunbar. a series of books are probably some of the best selling books that dunbar produced. they also point to the tension between the evolving image of free blacks and the new free black nation within america. and the sort of older images and how to negotiate that. that was an issue that dunbar do with in his poetry as well. a lot of the poetry is dialect portrait which is attempting to bring along cultural idioms and ideas that he inherited from his parents and grandparents and some others have been enslaved and makes the new and interesting for an audience that was living beyond. this case brings us into the early 20th century and the period of the union. these first books by booker t. washington, the author

william lord garrison reckoned guys that abolitionists were -- recognize that, in 1861, abolitionistsere numerically insignificant and politically speaking of no importance. people wanted to restore the union as it was. lincoln brought abolitionism into the mainstream and help shape public opinion to pave the way for constitutional reform by steps such as the emancipation proclamation and arming black soldiers. lincoln's record nation that -- lincoln's recognition that radical republican aries and federalism led them to support the amendment. we see his concern on this point when he pocket vetoed the wade davis bill. legislation that would have abolished slavery in the confederate states by legislation. and lincoln sat in the president's room signing bills in 1864, the last day of the congressional session. he explained why he wasn't going to sign the wade davis bill. "i do not see how any was now can contradict all that we always said, that congress has no power over slavery in the states." it's unclear the extent to which the amendment factored into the 1864 election. the house vote

many abolitionists expressed opposition to the you of gradual emancipation.ouglas expressed hope of the president advocating emancipation in the first place. process inndoned due 1862 he signed legislation prohibiting slavery in the territories. military victories secured in missouri and kentucky for the , even if the states were not raising emancipation themselves, the overall situation freed when can stand to talk about emancipation on a broader scale. the failure to catch the confederate capital that summer stall the union war effort. something had to be done to turn up the pressure on the confederacy. slavery a lot of to mobilize so many more white man into the armed forces. july 1862 read a draft reclamation by which he would free the confederate slaves in his capacity of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. he gave confederate states a 100 day time to rejoin the union and if congress went along, except compensated emancipation. no state took lincoln up on the offer. he issued the proclamation january 1 1863. lincoln cast it as a wartime measure w

abolitionists such as william blake garrison did not of course not notice uncle tom's cabin. his anti-abolitionist newspaper published a story in january 1853 called "uncle tom's cabin" mania in which it does and i'm paraphrasing such a minute love of this book and folks have really attach themselves to the characters as they had and is taking away from the power to and abolition. folks are getting lost in the human connections they are making with these characters in the drama as it's written. "uncle tom's cabin" was so popular as a stage production that more americans saw the display then read the book. so also speaking to the popularity, one of the first movies ever made in the united states was a porter andersen film, "uncle tom's cabin" in 1903. so it was going to. people would buy the ticket for a stage production or a film and it was just part of american culture and still is today. you will see here on the poster that supposed to be allies at amherst and harry an enslaved people escaping to join her husband, his father to canada and stopping over in a cabin, excuse me

the abolitionists did not glad business entirely after the 13th amendment. there was still voices supporting black rights. blackrse, there were people asserting these rights, as well. the fact is, for all kinds of reasons, emancipated black americans had great difficulty organizing with sufficient political affect, to really press their case. that did not really happen until the 20th century when you have an organized civil rights movement. jeremy: in some of the reading that i did to get prepared for this program, one of the things that really impressed me was that other than a few radical abolitionists, there really wasn't a big push for social fact, evend that in the people who are pushing for legal rights for emancipated slaves were not big believers in social quality. in fact, social equality was a very out-of-the-box type of position back then. prof. kennedy: again, even lincoln, is on the record of advocating forof social rights. but full civil rights, political rights, that is a different story. there's something as i want to touch on the last sessio

this was an area known to abolitionists. the meetinghouse was there, william lloyd garrison made speeches during the time the pages would have lived here. , the house in which they were living was a writer, a lawyer, politician and the judge. he was a trustee of the boston public library in for a time he was charles sumner's law partner. mrs. hillard was an abolitionist working with sumner, harriet beecher stowe to help pave the way for runaway slaves to come to boston along with the poet longfellow. most interestingly george hillard became the united states commissioner. commissioners were responsible under the 1850's fugitive slave law returning runaway slaves to their rightful owners in the south. enough, while hillard is doing this by day he at night, there is half the page family living in his attic. one wonders how much his heart was in abiding by the fugitive slave law or whether he was engaged in his own one-man protest against it. he lived with the hillard's until the end of the civil war. he was taught a trade and

she talks about the effect of the abolitionist movement. , "singing for free douglasseing frederick and perhaps hearing him speak, the hutchinson's decide to take that step. will perform at the american anti-favorite society meeting in 1843. they will perform in boston a little before that. this in formal meeting settings and they do it brilliantly. tv, wemerican history will visit the home of harriet beecher stowe which he published more than 30 books. >> she moved in with her husband whom she married in 1836 and he was 10 years older and a professor of theology. he was retired. she moved in with her oldest children, 20 girls, her -- twin rls, in their 30's. she was world-famous and she had reached the pinnacle of fame in her 40's. now she is in her 60's and still writing to support the family. >> we will tour the mark twain house and museum and learn about mr. twain's professional successes and private lives -- private life. twain looked into hartford as a place to settle with his new wife and children and came to the city. he was tickled to death. he said this place is beautiful. his

sherman is no abolitionists. he doesn't have this moral urgency about the issue. ending slavery is not on his agenda. sherman as well is no particular advocate of the enlistment of black soldiers. he is skeptical about the abilities of black men to serve effectively in the union army. he is no friend of african-americans. but under the circumstances of war sherman in some ways becomes a friend. what makes people do things they didn't think they would do. abraham lincoln said in 1861 the civil war was not a war for emancipation but by 1863 it has become that. sometimes revolutionary consequences flow from an expected sources. sherman is going to be one of those unexpected sources. during the course of his march to the sea, they disperse across a wide swath of georgia and march through the countryside and they destroy anything of military value. they begin in atlanta and they arrived in savanna on december just before christmas. we talked about sherman's goals and that he hopes to have an effect on the minds of white southerners. these slaves know there is a war goi

we even had teaching tools for abolitionist children. this, for example, gives you a feel for the alphabet but also gives you a poem attach to each letter that talks about negative aspects of slavery. these were effective teaching tools at the time. even more than that, we have photos that would've been circulated in northern newspapers to gain support for abolitionism. this is the photo here of a massive pay to slaves -- of emancipated slaves that would've been found in newspapers. the back parlor would have been more of a private parlor space where harriet would have spent time with her husband or her two daughters. they may be reading to each other. they may be playing the piano. it was more of a relaxation space than a formal entertaining space. when visitors come into this room, we don't allow them to touch anything or sit on any chairs, although we have reproduced the circular letter, which sometimes we will pass around. now that we have seen harriet's back parlor, we will go into a more private space, harriet's bedroom. we have a

he was a leading abolitionist. he never owned a slave.o if we're going to communicate our values worldwide, it seems surprising to many of us that hamilton would be diminished in a way, and the $20 bill would remain intact. >> yet in 2015 you do recognize that it's kind of high time we had a woman or at least recognize that half of our society is making a contribution to our national life, no? >> i agree, ray. we've been big cheerleaders and partners with barbara howard and susan stone with the work in the '20s and their success on hamilton on the 10s remain. the fact that there's a petition at 46,000 votes hopefully to your audience's reach we could day. >> are you surprised whether you hear american history spoken of, when you know how it's being tawd, that hamiltotaught, that t have the stature of washington, jackson, that set up an owner's manual for the country? >> ray that's one of the favorite questions ever asked. because for years the greatness of leamed hamilto alexander hamilton wasn't known. the aha society, i was a business c

it also deals with life during the abolitionist movement to end slavery and i have it on good authority it's one of the most extraordinary episodes we have seen. philadelphia the great spear amount airs tonight at 7:30 here on channel 6. >>> and set your dvr's because "wheel of fortune" will air at 1:36 a.m. >>> we are getting to know more about the new head coach and what he thinks about his new eagles. >> they need a quarterback but may have one on the roster. they are multitasking at the senior bowl in mobile, alabama and have their sights on sam bradford. they have a week prior to slap the franchise tag on him and he spoke with bradford and left encouraged. >> he would love to be back and that is the thing we have to continue to look at and i think he is a kid that would definitely fit the type of offensive structure that i'll bring. >> this is the player garnering all the attention at that senior bowl. carson wentz he could go as high as two to the browns or to the birds at 13. doug peterson is taking a look. >> good size and mobile and strong kid and good arm. it would be interest

in the spring of 1862 a group of .orthern reformers arrive abolitionists in particular. some of them coming to evangelize and educate former slaves. trying to organize the plantations as businesses. get the cotton economy back up and running. put the former slaves back to work on a free labor basis. over the course of the next couple of years those efforts are going to meet limited success. partially because these northerners as well-intentioned as they were don't actually know that much about growing cotton. the free people on those plantations don't have the same ideas about how those plantations are to be operated as the white plantation managers. they want not to grow cotton not butuse they hate cotton because they want to focus on economic strategies that are going to benefit their own families. what does that mean? it means growing food. you can't each cotton. eat cotton. former slaves planting sweet potatoes and rice and corn and you can raise livestock to feed yourself. that is a more practical imperative. getting a free labor economy up and running, how to feed

gold's and circled around a lock of hair that was thomas clarkson, thomas clarkson is a british abolitionists. win. beecher stowe goes to england he has already passed but his widow wishes to present her with something of his and has this made up a is in grave john the back so we know she treasures and she owned a print of clarkson as well and it hung in her home as well as british abolitionists and folks who worked toward human rights during the time she worked so a celebrity author who really change the way americans look at slavery. she was the one through her writing who gave enslaved people, a humanized feeling, white folks to and understand in a lot of ways that in slave african-americans were people. a bruce vaughan as property. for her to a humanize and make them people and for her readers to understand that this is wrong, the breaking up of human families is morally wrong and unchristian was the goals she set for herself in showing the wrongs of slavery in uncle tom's cabin. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to hartford and many other destinations on our city's toward

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that and that was a major part of his life and one of his great writings and a lot of abolitionists thought he was gone crazy. nonsense, it's a political principle that we are obliged to follow. in a great article for us he pointed out that green peace -- piece of their name. they went to alaska back in 1971 and another sort of connection as a special nation connection for us is he has written about windle barry, farmer, poet, environmentalist from kentucky wrote against coal minding and how it destroys the land and a wonderful essay, you can read everything about the principles of the justice and climate movement and wen wrote a beautiful essay on his own where he talks about windle barry. and the final thing i would say wen is a wonderful writer, there's a kind of ease, you feel like you're sitting next to a brother or friend in a coffee shop. if you have ever tryied to -- tried to write or editor, you know how hard this is. i'm going to pass it to may boveve. >> yeah. [applause] >> hi, everybody, happy to be here. i first heard about wen many, many times, we actually had a chance

. >> talking about the impact of the abolitionist music -- abolitionist movement by the hutch and -- by the hutcheson family singers. >> seeing frederick douglass, perhaps hearing him speak, the hutchinson's decide to take that step. anti-ill perform at the slavery meeting. they will perform in boston. their first foray into anti-slavery singing. they will do that informal meeting settings. of --will visit the home publishing more than 30 books. >> she moved in with her husband. about 10 years older and professor of theology retired. she moved in with her oldest children. they were in their 30's. stowe was still riding. she had reached that pinnacle of fame and she is still writing to support the family. weibel tore the mark twain house and learn about successes and private life while they live in this home from 1874 through 1891. >> mark twain began looking at hartford as a place to settle with his young life -- young life. just was tickled to death. mothers and brothers, saying this place was beautiful. family would come into the .ibrary paintings across the top and on the mound to

determine whether she is someone who simply accepts any prisoner statements that conform to her ap abolitionist beliefs and rejects those that do not. ed: a question tonight. it is it a race iist symbol inthat is the question about the high school mascot. heather: deciding whether to wcvb newscenter 5's john atwater reports, there are strong feelings on both sides. reporter: that school pride was evidence. school colors dominated the bleachers at tewkesbury high. hundreds here to defend a mascot some fine offensive. >> this mascot has a settle message of discrimination that can descent size at sporting events. >> the mascot has come under attack before. the battle has drone passionate arguments. >> tonight, i stand here in my old footballs are jersey as tonight we fight our greatest battle yet. we live in a time where political correctness has gone way to far. >> this is not about being politically correct. this is about empathy. empathy when you understand sharing group ex pierces and emotion. >> the superintendent called the town-wide meeting after the sure surfaced last month. >> there are t

all the money he raised, a lot of it he gave to abolitionist organizations to help his enslaved brethrenst before he was going to come back to america, unfortunately, he died in 1867,' we have this playbill that announces his performance as "othello" in a theater in the u.k. margaret: do you have an obama exhibit at the museum? lonnie: well, we have -- of course we do. [laughter] margaret: i guess it was a dumb question. i think what we realized is that the election of obama was a historic moment. we got it was crucially important to tell the story of the election. what we actually did -- we went and collected an entire campaign headquarters of obama that he had in northern virginia. goal was not necessarily to simply celebrate president obama, but to talk about what this means as we entered into the early 21st century. that's what we're trying to do. the goal of this museum is, on the one hand, this would be the first green museum on them all. that's great. i'm -- on the mall. that's great. i'm proud of that. the goal of the museum is to help people realize that history is as much about

hillard was an active abolitionist working with sumner, harry beecher stowe -- to help pave the way for runaway slaves to come to boston along with the poet longfellow. hillard became united states commissioner. commissioners were responsible under the 1850's fugitive slave law to return runaway slaves to their rightful owners in the south. interestingly enough, well, hillard was doing this by day, and goes home by night, and half the page family was living in his attic> . his hearts how much was into abiding by the slave law. rgl lived with, the hillard's affiliate event of the civil war and taught a trade. he started to mingle with boston's african-american elite. at the 12thife baptist church. he married her in 1868. she was the sister of george ruffin, the first african-american man to graduate from harvard law school. was well known. after the war, rgl returns to norco, becomes a member of the virginia's assembly, and goes on to become a lawyer, banker, and very wealthy fellow. he and his wife and my children, page wasom, florence dorothy ferebee's mother. were graduates of hampton

think the final moment came for the break was that billy was had a york and new york very active abolitionist movement. it was being led by the leaders of the patriotic movement, john hamilton, aron burr. on every street he was very unpopular. washington was a national figure he was very sensitive about this. billy is there and he is working in a household that has freemen, free blacks. all mingled together. he was in new york for 13 months. i think he goes to washington and is listening to these street demonstrations and i think he went to washington and said who am i a slave? washington had never been approached by such a brazen question. .he protocol behind the most remarkable system of rules that govern his behavior. this was violating the protocol. he was dumbfounded. he didn't know what to do. he couldn't tell billy. raise the risk that he might mention it to someone else. and collapse the whole house of cards. the only person he confides in is tobias lear. he says you can't have this man around. washington sent them home. billy wasxt 10 years a cobbler at mount vernon and there is no i

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, it was a break, and what happened with billy was in new york and new york had a very active abolitionist movement. it was being led by the leaders of the patriotic movement, john jay, alexander hamilton, aron burr. they were leading this movement for abolition. on every street he was very unpopular. washington was a national figure he was very sensitive about , this. billy is there and he is working in a household that has freemen, free mulattos, free blacks. all mingled together. they are in this free society. after spending time there, billy lee was in new york for 13 months. at some i think he goes to point, washington and is listening to these street demonstrations and i think he went to washington and said who am i? why am i a slave? washington had never been approached by such a brazen question. the protocol -- washington -- he was a human being who lived behind the most remarkable system of rules that govern his behavior. i talk about that in some detail. this was violating the protocol. he was dumbfounded. he didn't know what to do. he couldn't tell billy. it conjured up all kind

. >> talks about the impact of the abolitionist movement by the music of the popular 19th-century singing group the hutcheson family singers. 1842, the george latimer incident, seeing fragment -- frederick douglass and hearing him speak, the hutchinsons decide to take that step and they will perform at the american anti-slavery society meeting in 1843. they will perform in boston a little before that, their first foray into anti-slavery singing. they do this in very formal meeting settings. they do it brilliantly. >> on american history tv global visit the home of. beecher stowe and about her time spent at hartford where she published more than 30 books. >> she moved in with her husband whom she married in 1836. it was about 10 years older and was a professor of the elegy and he was retired -- professor of theology. they had twin girls. they were in their 30's. her 60's and calvin was in his 70's. stowe was still writing. she was world-famous. she had reached the pinnacle of fame in her 40's. now she's in her 60's and she is still writing to support the family. >> we both were the mark tw

. >> she talks about the impact on the abolitionist movement by the music of the popular 19th-century singing group the hutchinson fingers. >> throughout this moment of 1842, the george latimer incident, frederick douglass, speak,ring him hutchinsons decide to take they will and actually perform at the american antislavery society in 1843. they will perform in boston before that, their first foray into singing. they do this in a very formal setting, and they do it brilliantly. >> on american history tv, we will visit the home of harriet beecher stowe, and learned about her time spent in hartford, where she published more than 30 books. >> she moved in with her husband, whom she married in 1836. he was about 10 years older than her, a professor of theology, retired. she moved in with her oldest children, twinned girls, her adult daughters, in their 30's. she was in her 60's. and the president was in his 70's stowe was still writing. she was world-famous. thehad reached that pinnacle of fame in her 40's, and now she is in her 60's and she is still writing to support the family. >> final

. >> -- talks about the impact on the abolitionist movement by the 19th century singing group the hutchinson family singers in his book, "singing for freedom." >> about 1842, the george latimer incident, seeing frederick douglass and perhaps hearing him speak, the hutchinson's decide to take that step. they will perform at the american antislavery society meeting in 1843. they will perform in boston a little before that, kind of the first foray into anti-slavery singing. they do this in very formal meeting settings. they do it brilliantly. >> on american history tv we visit the home of. beecherstowe -- harriet stowe. >> she moved in with her husband calvin. he was about 10 years older than her at a professor of theology and he was retired. she moved in with her oldest children, twin girls. her adult daughters in their 30's. she was in her 60's and her husband was in his 70's. stowe was still writing. she was world-famous. she had reached the pinnacle of fame in her 40's and now she was in her 60's and she is still writing to support family. >> we will tour the mark twain house and museum and

and abolitionists feminists, i ask for no special favor for my sex.in your, she was bold, she was challenging them. she was doing it slowly and deliberately and rationally but she is pushing them beyond where they had been prepared to go at the beginning of the 70s. >> there's also a sort of genius to once you start to say that the law can't treat men -- is wrong and unconstitutional for the law to treat the land women differently, it all starts to fall apart. all these things. to use discrimination against men as the vehicle, there was another case about access to be here in oklahoma. >> wasn't a primary council but she did help a lot. >> and took the case. >> she took that case so in oklahoma, that there was a law in oklahoma that basically -- it was called near beer, low alcohol content. and the age that women could participate was 16 but for men it was 18. so the men brought this challenge to this law. so she was sort of embarrassed by that case but it was another example of the law treating to end women differently. >> i always take this one case

as with two volunteer nurses-- one a staunch new england abolitionist, the other an inexperienced younghose life has been upended by occupation. mary elizabeth winstead plays the northerner mary phinney, >> they both feel very passionately about what they believe in, but, as the series goes on, you kind of see the complexities in who they both are, and they find ways to connect even though they have such differing views on such very big, big issues. they see the humanity in one another and are able to work alongside each other. >> brown: the series was created and written by david zabel and lisa wolfinger-- he, known as the showrunner of longtime hit network hospital drama "e.r."; she, a veteran writer and producer of films and tv programs. >> i thought maybe we can find a new way to tell an old story, and it hit me, that no one has ever really explored the medical side of it. it's "gone with the wind" meets "mash." >> we wanted to find a way to find the drama in the medical. how do we tell the story of medical advances during the civil war but infuse it with drama? and alexandria, virg

. >> the author talks about the impact on the abolitionist movement with the popular 19th century singing group. in his book, "singing for freedom." >> throughout this moment of 1842, seeing frederick douglas and, perhaps, hearing him speak, they decide to take that step and they will actually peril form at the american antislavery society meeting in 1843 to perform in boston a little before that. into antislavery singing. and they do it bring kwoontly. >> show moved in with her husband and he was about 10 years older than her and he was retired. she moved in with her oldest children, twin girls or adult daughters. they were in their 30s. stowe was in her 60s and her husband, cal was in his 70s. she was world famous. now she's in her 60s. and she's still supporting the family. >> finally, we'll tour the mark twain house with his wife and children while they live in this home from 1874 to 1891. >> looking into harvard with his young wife and their new family. and he came to the city, fell in love with it, really, and just was tickled to death. wrote letters back to his own family, you know

so the abolitionists who were really growing in congress by this time in the 1840s and 50's were also sitting in the center of the slave trade and it was everywhere. here's another picture, it's actually blown up from the one that you just saw which shows the slaves being driven across the capital which has its dome. this is a view of the patent office looking across backyards about 1846. and i think it's very important to see this picture because it does show the rear of houses and we now can return to the picture itself which i find endlessly fascinating. it's the painting of course has these wonderful vignettes going going -- i love this man who is having an interesting conversation with this mullato woman. the fact that the color of her skin speaks volumes about what might be going on in the house next door. interestingly enough there is a ladder up against the house. this is obviously the weight gentrified houses here and across almost virtually next door and virtually next door is the house in appalling repair. the child right here at the window, the roof about to collapse, this

and while she is going to college, she becomes an ardent abolitionist, and she wants to devote the rest of her life to ending slavery in the south. so when the war breaks out, she is very well connected in richmond society. she is very wealthy, and she will put together a 12-member agent ring that is probably state of the art for the time. she's going to run a clandestine escape route for union p.o.w.s for the south. she's going to create her own s cyphers awe see here. she's going to have a series of five safe houses between richmond and washington, d.c., where agents can go to the safe house, drop off the material, go back home and another agent takes it on to the next safe house and can relay information in a very rapid and timely manner. she will figure out now ways of hiding information. for example, she's going to invent the hollowed-out egg where you blow out the egg and you just have a shell. you put the document inside the hollowed-out egg. you put it in a basket with a whole bunch of other eggs, and your agent can just start walking toward washington. nobody's going to suspect

the thing that intrigues me a minute to this century in baltimore with slaveowners and also the abolitionistsunning around and trying to buy people of their freedom and tried to help them the slavery. it is a real moral culture in that is in no way resembles the issues that we surrounded counterterrorism. someday when we get off my short beard time, maybe i'll get to write that one. thanks for coming out tonight. you have been a great audience. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> and while our trip to oakland, california, we spoke to emily brady who spoke "humboldt" discusses the finding of marijuana. >> i wrote this book because i was really curious about this community of marijuana farmers. i grew up in california. i am from the wine country in nine new where i grew up there was this region and marijuana was growing mainstream. i was wondering how the pot towns were adjusting to marijuana becoming almost legal. i wondered what a pot towns was like, when a community of people grow marijuana and how does that affect their lives. >> it is located in california about four hours north of san

she talks about the effect of the abolitionist movement. , "singing for free douglasseing frederick andps hearing him speak, the hutchinson's decide to take that step. will perform at the american anti-favorite society meeting in 1843. they will perform in boston a little before that. this in formal meeting settings and they do it brilliantly. tv, wemerican history will visit the home of harriet beecher stowe which he published more than 30 books. >>

. >> the impact on the abolitionist movement of the hutchenson family singers. >> seeing frederick douglass and of course hearing him speak, the hutchensons decide to take that step. and they will actually perform at the american antislavery society meeting in 1843. they'll perform in boston a little before that, their first forays into antislavery singing. and this do this in very kind of formal meeting settings, and they do it brilliantly. >> on american history tv, we'll visit the home of harriet beecher stowe and learn about her time in hartford, where she published more than 30 books. >> her husband was ten years older than her. he was a professor of theology, and he was retired. she moved in with her oldest children, twin girls, her adult daughters. they were in their 30s. stowe was in her 60s and her husband calvin was in his 70s. stowe was still writing. she was world famous. she had reached that pinnacle of fame in her 40s. and now that's an in her 60s and she's still writing to support the family. >> finally we'll tour the mark twain house and museum and learn about mr. twain's pr

. >> talks about the abolitionist music -- moving.hroughout this moment of 1842, scene frederick douglass -- seeing frederick douglass and hearing him speak. stepdecide to take that and will actually perform at the american anti-slavery meeting in 1843. they will perform in boston. in very formal meeting settings. they do it brilliantly. >> learn about harriet beecher stowe. >> she moved in with her oldest children, twin girls. they were in their 30's. she was in her 60's. stowe was still writing. she was world-famous. she had reached the pinnacle of fame in her 40's and now she is in her 60's and is still writing to support the family. finally we will learn about mark twain's successes while he lived in this home. mark twain began looking into hartford as a place to settle with his young wife and family. he fell in love with the city and was tickled to death. beautiful. place was the family would come into the library here after dinner. the paintings across the top and on the walls here and knickknacks on the mental, they would ask f

but then there was always another wing of the criticism of slavery: the abolitionists who looked at the first group and said, "are you kidding? the problem isn't that they're not well-fed or well-clothed or--the problem is that they're slaves. and even if we had a big struggle and even if we were successful in improving the conditions of the slaves, as long as they're still slaves, it's always possible for the master to take back whatever improvements in the conditions you were able to extract from him. the way to break out is to end the institution of slavery." and there was a big struggle in the united states between these two groups. in the end, lincoln went and abolished slavery. well, it's really the same issue now, isn't it? either we work real hard to improve the conditions of working people-- their wages, their salaries, their benefits--or we say, "wait a minute. the problem isn't the conditions. the problem is that they're an employee of somebody else who's the employer. and even if we get the benefits, the employer can and will take them away." i already did that 40 minutes ag