means of these stories fit into the abolitionist movement and abolitionists wanted people to understand what the institution was-like they could get people to abandon it. so we had a lot of publications during that time period as well. >> host: was there always at least a small abolitionist movement in the states? >> guest: there was always a small abolitionist movement. first of all, africans themselves were the first abolitionists because they were just running away and establishing new societies and trying to get back to africa or get away from their masters as soon as they basically landed. you have these advertisements and colonial newspapers about escape from the ship -- the ship was still in the harbor before they had a chance to be sold or can't speak english, don't know their names, the name of 0 their masters the first true abolitionists were these africans who arrived and said i have to get back to africa, i have to get back to someplace where i'm not treates this kind of way. and then of course we have the quakers early on, too, methodists early on as well, some germans as w

many of the stories fit into the abolitionist movement and so abolitionist really wanted people to understand what the institution was like so they could get people to abandon it. we had a lot of publications during that time frame as well. >> host: was there always at least a small abolitionist movement in the states? >> guest: there was always a small abolitionist movement. first of all africans of themselves with the first abolitionist because they were just run away and established societies and try to get back to africa or tried to get away from the masters as soon as it basically landed. you have these advertisements and colonial newspapers about escaped from the ship, really the ship is doing the harbor before then a chance to even be sold, or just arrived, can't speak in english, don't know the names, don't know the names of their masters. these were the first to abolitionist were these africans who arrived and just said i had to get back to africa. i have to get back to some place where i'm not treated this kind of way. and then of course we have the quakers early on. we have methodi

>> there was always a small abolitionist movement. principal applicant themselves were the first abolitionist because they were just, they would run away and establish societies and get back to africa will try to get a life from their masters. as soon as they know basically landed. i mean you have these advertisements and one on newspapers about escape from you know the ship. really the ship is still in the heart of the have a chance to even be sold or just arrived. they cannot speak english, don't know their names, don't buy the names of their masters. these were the first true abolitionist for these africans who arrived and said i have to get back to africa. i have to get you know back to someplace where i not treated this kind of way. and then of course we have the quakers early on also. methodists early on as well. some germans. gain their freedom. and they gave a very different kinds of ways. they also began to of course push themselves into and create an abolitionist movement. next slave revolts, was a common occurrence? >> yes

there is a tradition of interracialism amongst abolitionists. she seems to have had very little contact, or she evidences very little experience working with people of color. used ther reason she synonym of ms. perry winkle for that reason, for the entire promiscuous setting? >> i think that is certainly part of it, the way she plays with that pseudonym. bostonianust be that -- that's group of abolitionists with whom she rubbed elbows, maybe they are a different class of these radical quakers in philadelphia. a potance i have to take shot in boston in favor of philadelphia i am willing to do it. i am going to stick with that even though i don't have any evidence of that. also we just have to make sure we have to be careful -- it is a common thing for abolitionists to remark on their own racism and the limits of their own racial thinking. they know that they are racist, right? he dismisses s others can be offputting for a 21st century reader to say other people are racist, and then the next sentence she says something that makes you go what? very

was there a small abolitionist movement in the state's? >> they would run away as soon as they basically landed a. it's still in the harbor before they even had a chance to be sold or just arrived and can't speak any english, don't know the names. these were the first true abolitionists that arrived and said i have to get back to africa, back to some place in that way and then we have the quakers and methodists early on as well. they began to push themselves into and create an abolitionist movement. it was a common occurrence. people were always plotting in the part of the institution that affected them but most of them were realized because someone would spill the beans. [inaudible] in charge of controlling a the government, the patrollers. they were always on the lookout for the persons that were plotting. one of the things the masters understood is no one wanted to be enslaved. they were trying to figure out how to keep them in bondage when they were trying to figure out how to get out of it. why did we learn about that slave revolt? >>

and white abolitionist had been working together. we knew that here in philadelphia, that other quakers flaunted their interracial nature, the groups of abolitionists. right? they would walk down the street arm in arm with people of color in philadelphia, and they would get beaten up and yelled at. but there is a way in which, a tradition of intermission was among abolitionists but she seems to have had very little contact, or she evidences very little experience working with them. with people of color. right? >> it looks like another reason why she uses the pseudonym of ms. periwinkle. you think that is why? >> i think that is part of it. i think that is certainly part of it. using the pseudonym am a -- >> and a minus b that maybe the bostonian -- it might just be that the group of abolitionists which she rubbed elbows with, maybe they are a different class of this quaker, these radical quakers here in philadelphia. anytime i get a chance of taking a pop shot at boston in favor of philadelphia, i am going to do it. so, i will stick

's born in this house in 1843 and comes of age during a time when anti-slavery and abolitionist movements were in their infancy stage. aboutarned quite a bit social activism from a very young age, possibly might in the rooms of this house. lesson and this builds them into a young -- a life dedicated to social activism. we know she moved into boston when she was about 18 years old. we believe she worked as a teacher. later on, we found her in newport, rhode island. during that time. 1860's, she writes to request sponsorship to be teach -- be a teacher. in 1855, she moves to port deposit, maryland. to 1868.es from 1865 then she moves back to maryland to continue her work teaching. during that time. , it is almost 100 of her letters that survived. in all of these letters, she emphasizes her dedication to education and to social activism. of particular importance, in may of 1856, she tends to challenge the first civil rights act of 1856. when she enters a baltimore train station, she was forcibly removed by security guards who did not want a woman of color sitting in a waiting room with white

he never identified himself as an abolitionist. they identified themselves as pure and simple antislavery people. cast aside your other objections, loyalties, priorities, and throw yourself into the immediate abolition of slavery. he could never bring himself to that position. even until -- the last entry in our collection is him expressing ongoing tension, given all these other things he's wrestling with , even as a member of the house of representatives, and an inability to thoroughly identify himself as an evolutionist in -- abolitionist in many ways. this iconic anti-slavery period and in his career encapsulates this ongoing story of competing priorities and loyalties. dr. waldstreicher: ok, i'm just going to give a taste, skipping ahead of this wonderful 1831-1832 period, where he gets elected to congress, and is really starting to think bigger and bigger about slavery, thinking about it as one of the great issues of the time. connecting it to democracy. he's thinking about what's going on in england, and how maybe the conflic

douglass emerged as a radical abolitionist. precipitating his break with garrison and the emergence of this new political stance was congress's passage of the compromise of 1850 which strengthen the fugitive slave law on the books. following the passage of the fugitive slave law, people in the northeast were slavery did not exist where legally obliged to return fugitive slaves to their masters. from douglass's point of view, the compromise of 1850 with its fugitive slave law nationalized slavery and show the importance of political resistance. for douglass, the greatest example of political resistance and american history came from the revolutionary fathers and tohers who chose in 1776 declare their independence from great britain and to fight for their independence. , the year us to 1852 that douglass gave what many regard as the greatest anti-slavery speech ever delivered. "what to a slave is the fourth of july?" an address delivered in rochester, new york, on july 5, 1852. douglass was invited to give this july 4th speech by

newspaperman,, famous abolitionist, shaking hands with jefferson davis. we have a southern senator who, after calhoun died, became the most famous spokesperson for states rights, shaking hands with engine and wade, a radical republican. benjamin wade, radical republican. so they are going to get together. then we have john breckenridge, john breckenridge who had been the vice president under buchanan and then the democratic party split. there were northern and southerners. recommend was for the south. he represented the south. and he is shaking hands with benjamin butler. benjamin butler one of the most radical of radicals, one of the most hated people in the south. eight and is imagining them all shaking hands and endorsing reconstruction and it's not completely crazy. davis was in prison after the war, after he was captured. who was the person who sprung for his bond to get him out of prison. horace greeley. this is actually some common ground. what about benjamin wade? born originally and france. this is after the napoleonic era. he was a radical repub

most republicans were not abolitionists. but they agreed on certain principles. 1 -- slavery had cost the civil war, and the death of three quarters of a million americans. it had done more than just a slaves,aves, -- oppress it was a cancer that degraded the entire country, that degraded white labor and essential liberties of all americans, not just slaves. the 13th amendment aimed to change all of this, a step toward changing that entire regime. in one respect, it was truly revolutionary. it abolished the largest concentration of property in the united states with no monetary compensation. this has very rarely happened in history. i don't think it happened in the french revolution. they do not just abolished all the landholdings. they cut the heads off of people, that was one thing. [laughter] aggregating the property is a pretty radical thing. anyway the 13th amendment , settled the fate of slavery , but it opened whole lot of other questions. what exactly was being abolished? was it simply holding another person is prope

those who push for success and well before it became embraced by a majority of southerners and abolitionists in the north. but, i believe that most people are pretty much living their lives as we americans have always lived it. they're interested in the economy, they're interested in making sure their children had a better life than they did, education. they're also interested in other political issues such as the tariffs, such as the scandals that were plaguing the buchanan administration from 1856 - 1860. there were a lot of things going on. >> host: james we can and is often at the bottom of all list of the ranking president. >> guest: deservedly so. you cannot imagine a more prepared man to be president than james buchanan. and in 1856 he had been a politician, a minister abroad, he was well known and well respected. he brought to the office the hope with his election that he could calm things down. nothing was calm down. the way he conducted his administration was to alienate everybody and he certainly did that and he brought the country to a greater intensity of dislike for each other,

he is a significant abolitionist involved in all the conventions. john brown looks to him for help in 1859. he is the chief recruiter for black people, black men to go fight in the civil war in 1863. this is not a man who would stand idly aside. i'm trying to show along with the better-known routes to the west, there is a significant amount of activity going through cape may up along the coast, going to black towns. these are the places that do the heavy lifting of the underground railroad. rescuing, transporting across delaware bay, sheltering, the lives oforing the self emancipated as they pass through the state to free soil. for a times stated new jersey. those black towns still exist. the descendents of the people that trustee talked about her still living there. they carry on the message. the user environments in which harriet tubman with arrive. also the world that william still had contact with. david davis pointed out these of the people, prosperous, some prosperous black mostly working-class blacks who run the underground railroad. who do t

of them intermittently talked about lincoln as a abolitionist. it is in favor of christ that is much. they also talked about his staunch individual. >> always do they work with the republican party? >> they go to conferences. if they are invited. lot of meetings there >> how have their views changed over time? >> they have a pretty good in terms of the cindy eight go culture. they have window in part due to the it if allcute six or seven presidential elections. >> do they still exist? >> absolutely. >> has the membership and growing or shrinking over time? >> weapon that is interesting about them is that they are a group of voters who would very much like to be republican voters. of fivend that one out are conservative or very conservative. so what happens is in the late 70's every time there is a homophobic activist there is a influx and members who want to push back and rescue the gop from homophobia. over time they tend to get frustrated during the aids crisis and the drug wars and they start to drop out. is this next time there there is a wee

this effect was a factor that abolitionists were beginning to point to and would especially .2 by the 1830's -- especially from to by the 1830's white northerners as it promotes sexual abuse of female slaves that were disempowered. those arguments are beginning in their infant stages. by the 1830's, absolutely, this is a key argument abolitionists are making in the way that it degrades and dehumanizes sexuallywhen, -- women, and adds to the slave population for the master. there is an economic interest in masters sexually violating their slaves. it is an important factor. >> wasn't this one of the end results of the debate that the house said we will not consider any petitions on slavery anymore? prof. polgar: yes. i alluded to this in the beginning. some historians have argued this was a prelude to the gag rule. theg ag rule fully emerges later in the 1830's as abolition in the north has emerged much more strongly and you have a flood of petitions. there is no absolute answer to that. in some ways, yes, it is setting a precedence that antislavery petitions will not be handled in this

a lot of them talk about abe lincoln as an abolitionist, a favor of rights. he is a wartime president, they also talk about his stock individualism -- staunch individualism. in what ways do they work within the republican party. ? clayton: they go to conferences. sometimes they set up booths, if they are invited. meetings tot of talk to people, letter writing campaigns. a number of them, particularly in the 1980's, ran for office. they would be the lone republican in the democratic district. the respect of other republicans by running in this uphill battle. that is another way they reached out to people. >> how has their strategies changed over time? clayton: they have been pretty consistent in terms of the education. i said earlier they line up with the larger mission of the gop, in part because they want to demonstrate they are loyal republican voters and other republicans can see them as part of the team. since they became a national organization in the early 1990's, which involved six or seven presidential elections, they refused to endorse the republican

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it is unfortunate, because at this time joshua giddings is the premier abolitionist in the united states. and they end up in the same boarding house. and getting has a profound effect on the thinking of lincoln. lincoln who believed slavery was wrong, but there is nothing to do to fix it. well, joshua is going to begin working on his thinking and begin the evolution and abraham lincoln's believes on slavery. so what did lincoln do with the recess of the first congress? he decides he is going to go all in for zachary taylor. so he goes on a campaign swing through the state of massachusetts on behalf of zachary taylor. and he said he was there to speak with the most elite groups of the country and shake the hayseed out of his hair. we are familiar with illinois as a frontier state. so for the first time in american history abraham lincoln is speaking before the most intelligent groups in the country. the opinion leaders. and he is going there to speak on behalf of zachary taylor. what is interesting, he is not there to speak for zachary taylor against the democrat. the democrat will not wi

they joined the united states to protect themselves from abolitionist london and our fury and anger. in any case with regard to cuba you should know that with regard to our folk, people like frederick douglas, martin ofaney, are on the forefront objecting to u.s. involvement in the slave trade to cuba, objecting to the fact that in terms of the coffee plantations, sugar plantations on the island wereba, that disproportionately controlled by u.s. citizens. martin delaney, one of our greatest intellectual leaders, wrote what i consider to be perhaps still the leading novel in african-american literature of late, which has at the center of lack --t only only of african-american abolitionists fighting slavery in cuba, but also puts forth a prescient story about how cuba would be the hope of the americans. for those of you that are following what is going on with regard to west africa and ebola and that cuban authorities have outstripped many larger nations in terms of sending scores if not hundreds of epidemiologists, physicians, nurses, medics to be on the front lines in terms of combat

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they resented not only abolitionists and republicans but blacks. >> you had a favorite character. >> dan sickles. >> do we need technical assistance here? >> did i turn myself off? i'm good. dan is one of the great scalawags of the 19th century. a century that was packed with scalawags. >> competition was intense. >> there was a lot of competition, especially in new york city, of course. dan gets -- is a taminy man. as a young man, he is a party boy. he gets elected to congress. he goes to congress in the 1850s. catches his wife with a lover who is the son of -- his name is phillip barton key. he shoots him on the street, on lafayette square. comes up here for his trial. it's the biggest murder trial of the 19th century. big scandal. he is acquitted. a lot of people say it's because they used what was then a novel defense, which was the temporary insanity plea. i don't think that was necessary. his jury was 12 married men. dan goes on to raise his own brigade during the war. he is a general in the war. dan single handedly comes within a hair of either winning or losing the battle of

john quincy adams was a huge abolitionist. and someone who i think could have inspired lincoln in that regard very much so. >> you briefly mentioned lincoln 's father just now. anything can share about lincoln 's relationship with his dada as adults? >> i know it is not a great one. we do not know exactly what happened. when lincoln's racing back to washington at the end of the book, trying to get the appointment from zachary taylor he stops up by his father's home because he hears his father is ill. he does go out of his way to do that and maybe even jeopardizes his chance of getting this major appointment. i will say in the final hours of his father's life, lincoln said i do not think any good can come from me going and being there. lincoln was someone who dealt fairly with everybody he ever encountered. someone who was renowned for his integrity. someone who was renowned for having a very forgiving nature. lincoln was someone who never held grudges. if you can only imagine what might be the case that would hav e set lincoln

amendment to have the support of many northern politicians including men that would be considered abolitionists' politicians nothing the of north could do to stop slavery in the south because it is constitutionally protected but this amendment was floated and gradually became coalescing around the amendment and perpetuity in those states where it existed the 13th amendment you could never abolish slavery but james buchanan signed off and congress passed it to and i believe in three states began the process by that time for sumpter happened. it is a story that should remind us to not assume about the past to stop the war they did not want with great destruction and sadness they almost did it but they did not. >> what percent of the of population. >>. >> in this out those upper southern states during this crisis wanted to be preserved and that is part of the economic prosperity virginia turndown secession they did not want to do what unless they were forced and that is why fort sumter was so importuned that there would be no coercion to keep those seven original states on the confederate states o

the 18th century begins with abolitionist debate. this is a poem by john. he did not like losing his slave, a source of income and status, and so he wrote less than flattering words about adam, calling his character into question. similar, i venture, to the taunting and verbal diminishment of blacks today, which we just saw again in fenway. what does the freedom struggle of adam and his wife have to do with wheatley? phillis had a different relationship with her owners. they encouraged her talents and helped her promote them, unlike john saffin, who was dismissive of adam. cotton mather returns to the story in relation to health. one of his slaves, a gift from his congregation, proved very useful. the meaning of his name in greek. boston was a coastal city, also introduced in the city by foreigners and travelers. smallpox was a serious danger. the slave shared knowledge from his west african home. he counseled taking a bit of infection from someone already stricken from the early phases of the disease in time, the patient would recover and death would be av

, the national archives in washington dc holds a reading of an 1852 speech by former slave and abolitionist leader frederick douglass, on the meaning of american independence to slaves. this is about one hour and 10 minutes. >> good afternoon. almost fourth of july. ime producer at the national archives in washington dc and it is my pleasure to welcome you today.

distribution points for abolitionist literature. these became targets of the rioters. >> they targeted an orphanage, too? barnet: yes. it was actually a biracial effort started by quaker women in the 1830's and 1840's. they hired a black doctor. the first accredited black position in america who had to be educated in scotland cause of racism at home. it was a joint effort that was an uplift to black children, bringing them out of the slums, and so it became a point of thattment for poor whites blacks are getting some sort of preferential treatment. and they burned it to the ground. but again, the interesting point you were making before. you look at the ethnic group in the story. there's always a complicated picture. the young man who eventually rescued the children once they came out in the street were young irish streetcar drivers who knew the neighborhood and said, come with us. we will take you to the safety of the police recent. so, the riot is how many days? the first troops -- there were no troops in town. they had all been s

because of their staunch abolitionist views, they left proslavery missouri in 1841 and moved across to quincy, illinois where he continued his work as a lawyer. they maintained a close friendship with senator thomas benton was stephen douglas, former conrad and political rival after they left springfield, thornton and his wife and two young hired men to handle their wagons. most of the immigrants had departed thornton wrote in his trail diary. some were assembled at indian creek, a few were in this place not yet prepared to depart. among these i became acquainted with james reed, george donner and jacob donner. together with their wives and families all through the neighborhood of springfield, illinois and all proposed to go to california. thornton told the donner brothers and read that he was waiting for a few other immigrants to arrive and expected to move out within the hour. . . >> >> and those travelers who dared to venture from the l.a. and. by sunrays -- sunrise the camp was stirring bidding the mother and sister farewell they had ridden with the company all the way to springfie

but other you know you look back to the to the abolitionist movement. you look back to the suffragette movement you look to the civil rights movement we've gotten off course before and people such as the quakers and others have risen up to get us back on course and we can do that now i think the only question is what will our generation went out on the job people such as you guys to barry and sam thank you both so much frank you. and that's the way it is tight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag you're. my . the feeling. every. period. and you'll get it on the you'll roll. according to jeff.

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and he was very upset about that if that would have stayed in there that would have aided other abolitionists the african people did have the same rights as everybody else then in 1783 he heard the an undue constitutional convention now unfortunately they did not be said of slavery will end in virginia so even the state's of the north that started to pass laws at the age of 30 after the 20 year period would have totally changed. but jefferson got so much opposition to speaking out against slavery i mentioned the articles of confederation. he finally decided he could not trust this generation to end slavery. it was too pervasive. but he had great hopes of the men who would be controlling politics of the future. the so you could hope that he begins to put all of his hopes from the new generation so he had no way when he said that with a cotton gin to be more solidly implanted in the south so his hopes of the new generation will be squashed but he never gave the pope he was not quite sure that slavery would end but he had principles to conflict with one another easily slavery was wrong with the

the abolitionists loved to quote isaiah. the prophet who pronounced judgment upon all of the nations through the wrath of the lord of hosts. the people shall be as the fuel of the fire. no man shall spare his brother. lincoln mentions isaiah twice. the opposite. it is oblique and evocative. inviting further reflection. reflectionurther turns exclusively to the united states and the second lecture, lincoln's manner of presentation shifts abruptly to parity. does an extended riff on young america and manifest destiny. here is a sampling. you have all heard of younger america. of theot the inventor present? he owns a large part of the world by right of possessing and all the rest by wanting it and intending to have it. immortality for the of the soul, so has america a afteresire in longing territory. a great passion, a perfect rage for the new. and knowledge he is particularly rich and is the unquestioned inventor of manifest destiny. be anything the old which he can and do her, it is only old whiskey and old tobacco. swipetaki

the contrast between his rhetoric and that of the abolitionist could not be more dramatic. the abolitionist loved to quote isaiah. lines of terrifying vividness about judgment on the land. "no man shall spare his brother." lincoln mentions isaiah twice, but only to cite the trading of ore and creation of sailing ships. his mode is opposite of the moral harangue. it is bleak and evocative. when the further reflection turns exclusively to the united states in the second lecture, lincoln's manner of presentation shifts abruptly to parity. to parody. borrowing a slogan, he does an extended, secure -- satiric riff on manifest destiny. here is a sampling. "you have all heard of young america. it he not the inventor and owner of the present? he owns a large part of the world by right of possession, and all the rest are right of wanting it. and intending to have it. as plato had for the immortality of the soul, so young america has a pleasing hope, fond desire, and longing after territory. he has a great passion, a perfect rage for the new. and knowledge, he is particularly rich. h

but other you know you look back to the to the abolitionist movement. you look back to the suffragette movement you look to the civil rights movement we've gotten off course before and people such as the quakers and others have risen up to get us back on course and we can do that now i think the only question is what will our generation went out on the job people such as you guys to perry and sam thank you both so much frank. and that's the way it is tight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag your. my . to. watch the hawks founded by three young americans who love their country but we have to constantly question our government watching the hawks brings the stories the give voice to voice. we dig a little deeper we get the stories than everyone else is afraid to touch is afraid to talk about because they don't want to upset their corporate sponsors or interrupt their government access now is the time more than ever we need to question more. we're in this post truth world world we're going to have to to matter.

because of their staunch abolitionist views, thornton and his life left pro slavery missouri in 1841 and moved across the mississippi to quincy, illinois, where he continue his work as a lawyer. thornton corresponded regular live with influence sat newspaper editor horace greely and mad a close relation with senator benton and steven douglas, political rival of abraham lincoln. on april 18, 1846, just a few days after the donner party left springfield, thornton and his infirmed wife set out for independence with her noble greyhound, prince darko, and two young hired men to handle their wagons. most of the emt grants had already departed, thornton wrote. ... where an even larger caravan awaited them later the kansas river. certain advice made good sense. we agreed that they would all meet again soon. and then the read and don our family continued their inspection of independence. the panorama was nothing like they never seen on the public square in springfield the fact that the many immigrant wagon trains. they have just arrived after 46 days on the santa fe trail. after three weeks o

they were abolitionists or against slave the cave would have been a place for fugitive slave to hide.he age or location it could be haunted. >> it's possible there is a ghost that resides here. >> i don't want to invite the energy. >> that is interesting. she doesn't want a ghost coming after her. jonathan: as if there is a ghost. c'mon now! michelle: you will find out at midnight when you can't sleep. nancy: we'll update the story. madame tussauds' museum taking action after controversy about queen b. many saying the wax statue was too light skin. a lot of people compared it to lindsay photography and the light misrepresents how it really looks but it was taken down as the museum adjusts the styling and the lighting of her future. so it is back now. jonathan: apple making sure that it's cochlear implant for the apple products so people with severe hearing loss can take calls and stream music wirelessly from the apple devices. a lot of folks have the issue. >> you are looking at a circumstancem rainbow. -- this is a circle rainbow. this is not as uncommon as you think but needs a van

thing that frederick dug lats and william still asked harriet to speak, to fund-raise, to fire up abolitionistsd like everything she did, when she did it, she did it better than anyone else. we read and she did voices and sang songs and people were so engaged. it became pretty clear that we lean into the format of television, tell the story of her life through her words. >> now do you have something to add to that? >> um, yeah i think it was also important for us with the character like harriet, who you think you know because of that little paragraph in your book, and now you know it's only 9% of it, that we did want to give some of her story, her real life, and get more into it. but it's 19 -- it's 1858, so we had to figure out a way to tell that without, you know, being boring, without just going through it. and to find out she was speaking to people again, for me, it was that reaction of, this is a person. william still is a person. frederick dug lats was a person. all of these people were interacting at the time in the movement. and that to me was really exciting and interesting as well. >>

a relentless advocate for justice this problem in was an abolitionist and a freedom fighter she told the un- endured truth to whoever would listen and spent countless hours training and organizing others to grow the movement she served not only as a profound inspiration to those who knew her than in a literal gateway to freedom for it lives that were forever changed. i know her as susan. thank you for that. thank you so much. susan, i had been thinking about what they taught us that life has to be moved forward. i wonder if you would share with his audience what you know now. that you did not understand. i would also like to take the referent. and thank you in michelle you are so dear to me. i cannot even begin to tell you what your book did for me and many others. and i want to think them for taking this book. they did becoming this burden. i started a new way of life thinking that if women have a place to go everything would be okay. as i worked my understanding and analysis grew it wasn't what was wrong with us. it was what was wrong with the society in the world. on the system th

he led a force of guerrillas into kansas and attacked the capital of the abolitionist movement in kansas and killed approximately 200 men and boys. burning down the town. again, missouri had its own cycle of violence. yet, they also saw themselves as confederate. a low point for the confederacy. this was after it is berg. -- gettysburg and after a wave of masses hate, slaves still being held in slavery in western missouri. on top of that there were a number of women taken prisoner, sisters and female relatives of guerrillas. they were concentrated in the building in kansas city. there was a building collapse and some of them were killed. so there was personal revenge desired by the guerrillas. there was definitely a personal aspect. wkerlane was a strong jayha and was a u.s. senator. he was also a leader of raids into kansas. he was pursued. with ann responded action that they had considered beforehand -- the brother-in-law of sherman, a general who was commanding in western missouri -- they carried out an action number 11,ral order which made the civilians of accurate their farms and le

[laughter] i was lucky i got -- well, my research id a lot of of the quaker abolitionists who ived in the building that was destroyed during the draft riots. ut then i kept researching for more letters of the givens hotly and i was sent with a wellman, a h historian who told me go to i found university and a record of fugitives by sidney that sent and so then me off onto a real search because i found the most thing.dinary sarah moore was married to her jacob moore in the givens' previous home. sarah i'm trying to find moore. o i did find her listed in new haven, connecticut, but it's een -- that's taken me two years to find that. go back but i wanted to say -- i shouldn't say record, but there is one me.f member who terrified he was so mean and i'm going to get my courage and go back. [laughter] >> i've had experience with that too. good. >> but i'll talk to you later. >> okay. [laughter]. i'll talk to you later and give you the name of somebody who is really, really wonderful will help you. >> oh, thank you. >> and i just saw her a couple of nights ago and she's really lovely. i just

revolution, as certainly as george. 75 years after the declaration of independence, the great abolitionist, most americans are not content with reassuring origin stories. we work now for the prospect of a better future. with past struggles as our guide. when we see the american revolution in its own historical present, we look not only on the grandeur of long-dead heroes, bee we appreciate the efforts of men, women and their losses as well as victories and their determination to turn those losses into lessons that would keep them fighting on. americans can be true to that past by recommitting ourselves for the time to come. taking this history as an inspiration to make the united states the country we dream and need it to be. i for one feel very fortunate that this museum is alive right now. to show a way. >> please welcome the chairman of the museum of the american revolution, and the 17th chief of staff of the united states air force, general john p. jumper. >> mr. vice president, the distinguished guests, jerry, marguerite and your family, the museum of the american revolution honors th

. >> hamilton was a pretty passionate abolitionist, correct? >> yes. >> and i'm curious.nk it was the manumessin society. what was his role in the debate in the constitution on slavery, which was acrimonious? was he a leading voice for the elimination of slavery during that process or not? >> that's a great question. that was a difficult point in time in our nation. there were some things we wish we could do, but if we did some of those things, we couldn't start getting our nation right. so all of them had an agreement. i can't say all of them. most of them had an agreement that we have enough difficult things to work out for a few years, so they put off the decision about slavery for 20 years and no more importation. so there were just a lot to -- there were a lot of complicated things. so those that were -- that supported it and respect for all people, there were some things that they had to buy their time. so it was sad, but it was a reality. and look at how imperfect our nation has been for 242 years. but what other nations say about us? the best. and we're not perfec

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