lots of abolitionists did. douglass, this is 1870-71, reconstruction has one, reconstruction has a fall apart yet. the client is raging february the reconstruction has a fall apart yet. frederick douglass was among a large group of former abolitionists who now argued the united states is now an abolitionist country. we are a nation of emancipation and we should export it. we should take the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments out to the world, especially still slave societies like in the caribbean, and give them our ideas. that's not unfamiliar to us. americans of all stripes have done this for a very long time. but when they come back from the santo domingo commission, grant invited the regular commissions to the white house for a special dinner and didn't invite douglass. not a pleasant thing. but he always at least from a distance admired grant. in fact, in 1876 in 1876 he wat to run again. he would know how to trust the other candidates, despite the scandals. there were so many grant scandals. he thought grant w

we woke up and start the abolitionists. we've got questions. >> we have a lot of questions here. i am just going to need them. what sort of documents did you use and how many personal details to revealed about the slavery? >> i read mostly published documents. i did do some work and archives in missouri but i read published with literary scholars and the presumption if you read them closely enough you can feel with those personal motivations were. if you read this book which i hope you will you will find legal cases and narratives, memoirs by activists, political speeches cost of returning the congressional globe with a congressman and senators were saying to each other so i try to get at a variety of sources of that kind. how long did it take you to do this? >> it's hard to answer that question because i think i'm preoccupied by these issues probably close to 25 years. i signed a contract for the buck more than ten years ago and my generous publisher gave me extensions so i guess i was working on it for about a decade and writing it for maybe four years. it took a lot out of me.

general butler was no abolitionist. he had voted repeatedly for jefferson davis at the democratic convention. but he was a military man. his job was to prevail over the enemy. so these three slaves show up and the next day, maybe two days later, a guy under a flag of truce shows up and says i understand you have three slaves belonging to my employer, colonel mowry, and he would like them back and general butler says, you know, i don't think so. and the representative of the colonel -- these guys knew each other. they had some friendly chat. and he said die understand you to say you're not going to honor the fugitive slave law of 1850 and general butler said, well, as far as i know, yesterday, state of virginia, the commonwealth of virginia, declared itself a foreign country. and the fugitive slave law has nothing to do with a foreign country so get out of my fort. a bit of a paraphrase, and that was the opening wedge and butler was very proud of it. he wanted to get credit for that. he was the one that decided fugitive

he has an abolitionist. he is very opinionated. he really wants to be involved. lincoln's response is that we have so much legal work. do all of the legal work for me. i have a lot to do. in a sense, he puts him on a shelf. yes, he is writing to his fellow abolitionists, but he does not want him out there making speeches at this time. when they meet in chicago in mid-may, davis is the leader of lincoln's gang. they meet in a building expressly built for the convention. ig-wam.called the wh it is a bit crowded. it is a bit izzy. busy.it in the hall and the hotel rooms nearby, that is where the action is going to be. that is where things will get done. today, a nominating convention meets and almost always, something is there beforehand. most conventions went a few ballots. when they meet, judd pulls off a wonderful maneuver. back in 2008, when barack obama was nominated, i am watching the daily show and they do a story. one of the networks did a story. they show how the delegations moved according to who the nominee is. it turns out in 2016, clinton is from new yo

butler was no abolitionist. he had voted repeatedly for davis at the democratic convention. but he was a military man. prevail over the enemy. so these three slaves show up day, maybe two days of r, a guy under a flag truce shows up and says i understand you have three slaves employer, o my colonel nowry, and he would like them back and general butler says, you know, i don't think so. of the representative colonel -- these guys knew each other. chat.had some friendly and he said die understand you to say you're not going to honor sleigh law of 1850 and general butler said, well, yesterday, know, state of virginia, the commonwealth of virginia, declared itself a foreign country. and the fugitive sleiave law ha to do with a foreign country so get out of my fort. and that paraphrase, was the opening wedge and butler was very proud of it. he wanted to get credit for that. the one that decided fugitive slaves could be treated contraband of war. that is, an asset to the enemy relieve the d to enemy of and deploy for ourselves. so the war, the logic of the war created hundreds of t

nagging be about some abolitionist. they would get closer and closer to a river and sat down and started to argue about how they would get across the river. within make a bridge? theythe river be -- would make a bridge? make athem says "i never bridge until i cross it." is that funny? no. lincoln made it to the punchline, it was time to go. he was ushered back at. him "i am not li stening to one of your stories right now. you are going to tell a story and then say i have to leave. have toten to what i say." people would figure it out but it would take them a while. out --did you figure that you wanted to write this book? we were fighting the battle of gettysburg in the public park. my mom joined a book-of-the-month club when i was eight years old. you used to get a dozen books for a penny if you joined this club. some of thetake out books. i had these books about the army of the potomac. it is a lifelong interest. it was another kansas city veteran of journalism, the great military writer, rick atkinson. he opened by ey

it would be about some nagging abolitionist. they would get closer and closer to a river and sat down and started to argue about how they would get across the river. within make a bridge? with the river be -- would they make a bridge? one of them says "i never make a -- i never cross a river until i come to it. " is that funny? no. by the time lincoln made it to the punchline, it was time to go. he was ushered back at. someone said to him "i am not listening to one of your stories right now. you are going to tell a story and then say i have to leave. now listen to what i have to say." people would figure it out but it would take them a while. >> how did you come to write this book? >> i have been interested, like a lot of people in the civil war for as long as i can remember. my friends and i would pretend that we were fighting the battle of gettysburg in the public park. my mom joined a book-of-the-month club when i was eight years old. you used to get a dozen books for a penny if you joined this club. they let me take out some

again, the abolitionist movement. this birmingham quaker's is the birmingham meeting should not affect the galton family's donation to enlarge the birmingham meetinghouse. still, besides that little nothingf criticism, formal transpires in the birmingham meeting for another few years. 1795 that finally the birmingham meeting objects to the military purposes of galton's firearms and says he needs to stop making them, or he will be disowned. galton at that point was painfully aware that many of his accusers were as invested in war as he was. so note the timing. this is just one guns were beginning to earn a new reputation as instruments of wonton violence. it is also precisely in 1795 that the quaker sect, the society of friends, explicitly proclaims itself against hunting and shooting as well. guns have become scandalous in a new way at exactly the moment when quakers are particularly concerned about scandal. so, that is why 1795 became the year of reckoning for galton. here we see that quakers were not always just qua

talks and writings on slavery and how the fugitive slave act inspired many to become more active abolitionists. this is a little under an hour. our presenter this morning is andrew delblanco. this is his first appearance with the lincoln forum and i hope not the last, he's an alexander hamilton professor of american studies at columbia university. >> he has won several teaching awards. we're delighted even though he's known as a social critic. in fact, "time" magazine has named him america's

a tremendously horrible blow to the abolitionist cause in america. it really just added fuel to the fire. >> when i see that beautiful room, i think about the fact that they're debating, having great debates, but the debates really don't consider fully happening to the people who are enslaved. you're someone like a charles sumner. >> charles sumner was angry, he was obnoxious, he was rude, he people.ry to he was not a well-liked figure in the senate. even among those who supported effort.slative >> it is here in may 1856 where the massachusetts senator rises to make his famous crime against kansas speech over whether it oruld be admitted as a free a slave state. in it, he calls out senator stephen douglas of illinois and carolina's andrew butler, calling douglas a squat and nameless animal and mocking taking a mistress, the slavery. his relativeter, slams his metal topped cane on to the unsuspecting sumner's head. landing repeated blows and leaving him almost dead. >> he is so badly wounded that he almost gone the next three years. he comes back to t

after the great chicago fire reverend robert past of the first unitarian church in immigrant and abolitionist the woman suffrage advocat advocate, admits to the broken ruins of the church to bring hope and vision to the devastated congregation. his parishioners gathered around him peeking through splintered beams and columns serving as the pulpit. his words that morning have survived the 148 years since. a testament to their power and truth. what is lost? first, our homes. secondary businesses. that these are temporary. we have not lost our geography. the lakes of the forest or the prairies long before we were born and they decided a great city would be built we have not lost hope the fire makes no difference to me if you stay here i will and we will work together to help each other out of our troubles. [applause] since his time americans have often had to gather in broken cathedrals of stone and glas glass, aspirations and promises to reaffirm our faith to one another. we find ourselves at such a moment now. we contend every day with an economy that gives too little and takes too much allows

so were the abolitionists, the civil rights marchers, the martyrs in rome and the jews in egypt.ighteousness does not have to be popular. and so we march for those who can't. the media will ignore us because they always do. other marches, you know the five people who show up tomorrow. they bet that the tens of thousands of us to stand here with the souls of the future of america will be forgotten. we will not be forgotten. slaughtered over the decades remember. they look at us from above and i know they met something so long as we keep them in our minds and hearts. our children, standing here with us, here today, they will remember. they will remember and they will march until they no longer have to march. our children yet unborn will remember, and they will think us in their prayers, and most of the god who brings life and maintains it, who stands with those who suffer most at the hands of evil, he will remember us. he will remember america and less her. moste the guardians of his precious creations. we will march until that darkness is banished forever and all of our children c

the great abolitionist wendle philips said one and god is a majority. that is true. but having the american people on your side helps, too. you and i will be back again next year, but i promise you this. the day is not far off when you will return not for demonstration but for a victory parade down pennsylvania avenue. together on that day we will celebrate a victory for faith and science, for both compassionate care and common sense. but for now there is much work to do. when you get back home, get to it. one more thing. you guys, how about joining the knights? if you do that, then we will get on to it together. god bless. >> as we know and as you have heard today our theme is unique from day one pro life is pro science. we are so happy it partner this year with the pearler justice in producing a video that so beautifully shares the central message of our theme. please turn your attention to the jumbotron. >> imagine for a moment if you will, imagine if you never had a martin luther king, mahatma ghandi or bob marley or mother teresa or joan of arc or albert rosa pa

, reverend robert callier, pastor of the first unitarian church, an immigrant and anti-slavery abolitionist a woman's suffrage advocate, stood amidst the broken ruins of his grim -- once grand church and brought a vision to his once devastated congregation. his parishioners gathered around column, they overturn serving as a sculpted. his words that morning have survived the 148 years since. a testament to their power and truth. what is lost, he asked? first, our homes. second, our businesses. but these are temporary. what we have not lost is our geography. nature called the lakes, the forests, the prairies together and can been -- convened long before we were born. they decided on this spot, a great city would be built. we have not lost hope. the fire makes no difference to me. if you will stay here, i will. we will help each other out of our troubles. [applause] since reverend colliers time, americans have to threether in broken doubles, some of stone and glass, some of aspirations and promises. to reaffirm our faith to one another. we find ourselves at such a moment now. we contend every

his family was strongly abolitionists, his mother particularly.he subscribed to horace greeley's weekly tribune, which she could get in the mail and reinforced that sentiment. decided thatusin they could not stay out of the war. they enlisted. he had a pretty amazing war record. he entered as an 18-year-old private. his commanding officer, rutherford b. hayes, later president and mentor of his, became a general. became a congressman, then a governor, then president. hayes saw that the sick man had remarkable organizational ability. so he made him a quartermaster sergeant. he was taking care of supplies. at the battle of antietam, the single bloodiest battle in our history, he was two miles behind the lines because his job was to provide provisions. unit that had the gotten caught, trapped essentially, in the area of the battle. they could not move or get out or nobody can get into help them. they were starting. -- starving. and had run out of water. these troops were in extremis. ofng mckinley thought loading up a wagon with coffee and water and a

let's remember, when abolitionists spoke out and civil rights workers marched, their oppressors said they were dividing the races and violating the word of god. but frederick douglass said it best, and harriet tubman and dr. knew, to love the religion of jesus is to hate the religion of the slave master. [cheers and applause] sen. harris: when we have true unity, no one will be subjugated for others. it is about fighting for a country with equal treatment, collective purpose, and freedom for all. [cheers and applause] sen. harris: that is who we are. that is who we are. today, i stand before you -- [cheers and applause] sen. harris: i stand before you today clear eyed about the fight ahead and what has to be done. fidelityh in god, with to country, and with the fighting spirit i got from my mother -- [cheers and applause] sen. harris: i stand before you today to announce my candidacy for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] [chanting] sen. harris: thank you. thank you. sen. harris: and i will tell you , i am running for president because i love my country, i love my

chicago fire reverend robert collier pastor of the first unitarian church, immigrant, anti-slavery abolitionist and women's suffrage advocate stood among the broken ruins of his once grand church and brought hope and vision to his devastated congregation. his parishioners gathered around him, the sun peeking through gutted walls and splintered beams, an overturned column serving as his pulpit. his words that morning have survived the 148 years since. a testament to their power and truth. what is lost, he asked? first our homes. second our businesses. these are temporary. what we have not lost is our geography. nature called the lakes, the forests, the prairies together in convention long before we were born and they decided that on this spot a great city would be built. we have not lost hope. the fire makes no difference to me. if you'll stay here, i will. we'll work together and help ach other out of our troubles. since reverend collier's time americans have often had to gather in broken cathedrals some of stone and glass, some f aspirations, and promises. to reaffirm our faith to one another.

>> john brown was an abolitionist. kansas in 1855. left for the last time in early 1859. and had a major impact on the state. >> how long have you been portraying him? i started portraying john brown in 2006. meaningou're giving new to the term riding shotgun. what do you have? copy, which period means it was done about the time the original were done of flat 1853 slant breach sharp, something john brown would need to carry. are the three of us going today? >> well, we're going around then we'llwrence and be taking a few excursion trips o other important sites in lawrence history. >> okay. let's hit the road. >> all right. good.s >> starting at the watkins museum, tell me about the building. came to lawrence in the 1800, very wealthy, land railroad, banking and he built this building here. 1975, i think it is, it's been the headquarters of the historical ty society and county history museum. to come in and earn about the history of kansas. >> it was the beginning of the thel war, it started before civil war and in the 1850s and of people in on both sides of the slavery is

occasionally, on the radical fringe of northern politics, abolitionists. said, it has ossified into something like conventional wisdom. as my panelists suggested and as i've also just, it is incomplete and maybe even misleading. the result of this kind of stories that many civil war scholars have even if only unwittingly cast the war as a good or. as one of the united states' good wars. they have vindicated a sense of righteousness, perhaps even american innocence. during what joe described as one of the central tenets of this nation's history. by overlooking the ways that the west remained critical throughout the war, historians, including mcpherson, who i love, and who is a wonderful man, i feel like i'm being a little unfair, but that is life. by overlooking ways in which the west and indigenous peoples remained critical, historians of security reality that the civil war was from beginning to end in addition to being a war of liberation, which became over time, also a war of imperialism. it was a struggle to conquer the mississippi territories then rema

toactually gave pointers what to say to abolitionists. >> it was a tremendous blow to cause andionistsmerica and added fuel to the fire. >> when i see that beautiful room, i think they are having these great debates, but the debates really don't consider what is happening the people who you areslaves unless someone like trial sumner -- charles sumner. >> he was not a well-liked figure in the senate. here in 1856 where the massachusetts senator rises to make his crimes against kansas speech over whether it should be a free or slave state. in it, he calls out stephen butler,and andrew calling douglas a squat and nameless animal and mocking butler as taking a mistress, the harlot. three days later, they entered the chamber and slams his cane on to the unsuspecting sumner's head, landing repeated blows and leaving him almost dead. >> he is so badly wounded that he is almost gone the next three years. thatmes back in 1859 and is the most important part of the charles sumner story. >> there are instances where we people who are very progressive who in their own time stand up above the rest a

the abolitionists -- they didn't say this is too hard, the suffragettes, they didn't say this was too hard. movements, they didn't say this was too hard. movementscivil rights . [applause] yes, these folks were told it's too hard. give up before you start. but they organized, they persisted, and they changed america. [applause] tonight because i believe. i believe in what we can do. now isve that this right our moment. big and toto dream take back this country for democracy. ♪ [applause] ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> everybody that wants to take a picture with the senator, make your way to the right side of the room. please woman orderly line to the right side of the room. >> we're going to do together. >> he's got the camera now. behind you, they will work with you. this is my best friend. we're going that way. she has the camera. >> i have it right here. >> we will see you tomorrow, in ankeny. you are rocks. rock.

let's remember when abolitionists spoke out and civil rights workers marched, their oppressors said they were dividing races and violating the word of god, but fredrik douglas said it best and harriet tubman and dr. king knew, to love religion of jesus is to hate the religion of the slave master. [cheers and applause] >> when we have true unity, no one will be segregated for others. it's about fighting for a country with equal treatment, collective purpose and freedom for all. [cheers and applause] >> that's who we are. that's who we are. and so, i stand before you today -- [cheers and applause] >> i stand before you today about the fight ahead and what has to be done. with faith in god, with fidelity to country and with the fighting spirit i've got from my mother -- [cheers and applause] >> i stand before you today to announce my candidacy for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> and i will tell you, i'm running for president because i love my country, i love my country. i'm running to be president of the people by the people and for all people. [cheers and applause]

the abolitionists. they didn't say, this is too hard. the suffragettes, they didn't say this was too hard. america's labor movement, they didn't say this was too hard. america's civil rights movement. [applause] sen. warren: yes, these folks were told it's too hard. give up before you start. but they organized, they persisted, and they changed america. [applause] sen. warren: i'm here tonight because i believe. i believe in what we can do. i believe that this right now is our moment. our moment to dream big, to fight hard, and to take back this country for democracy. [applause] ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> ♪["respect" playing] ♪ [indiscernible conversations] >> are you going up there? >> yeah. ♪ >> everybody that wants to take a picture with the senator, make your way to the right side of the room. please start making your way to the right side of the room. >> organize o

the abolitionists. they didn't say this is too hard. the suffragettes, they didn't say this was too hard. america's labor movement. they didn't say this is too hard. america's civil rights movement. >> [ applause ] >> yes, these folks were told is too hard. give up before you start. but they organized, they persisted, and they changed america. >> [ applause ] >> i am here tonight because i believe. i believe in what we can do. i believe that this, right now, is our moment. our moment to dream big, to fight hard, and to take back this country. >> [ applause ] >> just a little bit. ♪ all i want is just a little respect. baby. just a little bit. just a little bit. ♪ >> start making her way to the left side of the room. please form an orderly line. >> fellow native americans. >> one, two, three. >> elizabeth, thank you so much. i pray for your safety. >> one, two, three. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. all right. >> you are so welcome. >> one, two, three. president donald trump will address the nation to not. it will be what the adminis

at once a slave owner and a convinced abolitionist, his vision of the american republic was not without moral inconsistencies. his impulses may have been complicated by his imperial desires. the desire for freedom in tension with his urge to dominate. even as his personal standing is sullied by his association with the slave trade, his legacy is assured by his commitment to the american republic. it is worth underscoring the magnitude of his vision in this regard. 1793 when the capitol building project was commissioned was eight months u.s. and challenging year. it is worth reflecting on a timeline to clarify this point. jordan submitted his design late in 1793, 10 days after the regicide paris. war between france and britain was declared the next day. thornton's design was improved one month and one day after washington was installed as president. 17 days before he removed america from the revolutionary conflict. in july, thornton and stephen were brought together to settle upon the final design for the building. thehe months that followed, foundation stone was laid by washington. 20 d

at once a slave owner and traitor, and a convinced abolitionist, his vision of the american republic was not without moral inconsistencies. his republican impulses may have been complicated by his imperial desires. the desire for freedom and the potential tension with his urge to dominate. personalas his standing is solid by his association with the slave trade, his legacy is a short by his commitment to the american republic. it is worth underscoring the magnitude of his vision in this regard. the year 1793, when the capital building project was commissioned, it was a to most was and challenging year. it is worth reflecting on a timeline to clarify this. thornton submitted his design on the capital building late 31st of january 1790 3, 10 days after the regicide in paris. francegreat britain and was declare the next day. thornton's design was improved one month and one day after washington was installed as president for his second term , and 17 days before washington removed america from the revolutionary conflict, with a declaration of neutrality. in july, thornton and stephen hall

let's remember when abolitionists spoke out and civil rights workers marched, their oppressors said they were dividing the races and violating the word of god. but frederick douglas said it best. to love the religion of jesus is to hate the religion of the slave master. [ cheers and applause ] when we have true unity, no one will be subjugated for others. it's about fighting for a country with equal treatment, collective purpose, and freedom for all. that's who we are. that's who we are. and so i stand before you today -- [ cheers and applause ] i stand before you today clear eyed about the fight ahead and what has to be done. with faith in god, with fidelity to country, and with the fighting spirit i got from my mother, i stand before you today to announce my candidacy for president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] [ chanting "kamala" ] >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] and i will tell you, i'm running for president because i love my country. i love my country. i'm running to be president of the people, by the people, and for all people. [ cheers and applause ] i'm runn

it is important to know many women who were abolitionists were also deeply involved in the fight to secure suffrage. some people -- historians are unclear, but some do behind the scenes and under the table, women were told let's get slavery abolished first and then he will give you the right to vote. the issue in the western parts of the country was confusing. think to the map i showed you. much of the west was territory, no states yet. every time a state came in, they asked should it be free or a slave state? a lot of problems. more women than men were against slavery and western women agreed with eastern sisters. the two most famous black women who were part of this was sojourner truth and harriet have been. neither truth nor tubman visited western states. the movement in which they were involved engaged all of the intention of western woman before the civil war -- attention of the western woman before the civil war in 1865. karen nation, temperance. she is most famous for spearheading the temperance movement, the battle against alcohol abuse. she was in kansas which was considered a wes

grant is not an abolitionist, but he is anti-slavery. from that period through the civil war and during his residency, he is doing more for african-americans to make sure they get citizen rights than anybody has. >> we talked earlier about lincoln's growth. would you say the same thing about grant? john: yes. the interesting thing is that julia's did not. her father treated the slaves well, etc., etc. we will be putting out a new edition of the julia memoirs. >> you are a regular factory, aren't you? >> at the beginning of your talk you mentioned how a lot of people considered grant to be the slugger type of general, and lee is the clever general. in reality, they are both clever generals. how do you believe these stereotypes of grant being not so clever came to be? john: that is a good example of the lost cause. i apologize. it comes down to it is a lost cause. there was a group of lee's former generals who formed a southern historical association, and the very purpose was to make sure that lee was considered a great general, and the fi

was present at that event recorded in her diary that the famous african americans grandmother abolitionist, quote, went with captain george karst, but the policeman would not allow her to go in to see the president first lady. when i went and she was sitting in the into room waiting for the captain come out. when i said it was too bad she said, never mind honey. i don't find it. it did not occur to me until too late that i should've gone directly in and told the president. i would like to have known what he would've said. i could not to go was done by his orders." now, if this woman went in and informed lincoln, he might than what he did a week later when he insisted frederick douglass be admitted to the post-inauguration reception. so ok, that's february 25. february 27, a british journalist told lincoln that two days earlier sojourner truth had been denied admittance to the executive mansion and the president "expressed his sorrow" and said he had often seen her and that it should not occur again and that she should see him on the first opportunity, a promise that he kept after sending f

i come from a family of abolitionists. maybe i would have some artifacts from his can i seein, five times great grandfather, that hadn't been killed. this means something to me. the be a -- the be a lism to make sure all men and now all women are created equal and we are endowed by our creator with certain uninalienable rights and that is life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. it's in my heart, work, soul. by the fruits you shall know them. but "the new york times" has a different version of this. they make a habit of attacking the president, as a matter of fact. and i look at this language that's here. this resolution that the house of representatives once again rejects white nationalism and white supremacy and hateful expressions of intolerance that's contradictory to the values that define the people of the united states. i agree with that language, i said, but i will add to it the language i used on this floor in this very place last friday afternoon when i said, i would strengthen it by adding my previous statements, wh

but you learn about the civil war in the context of that period right after the abolit n abolitionist movement and right before the period of reconstruction. and the same when you go up to the third gallery in vietnam. you learn that military history in the context of the civil rights movement. so we interpret military history throughout the museum. and there is a letter -- i will close with this. there is an interpretation called "a century in the making." the museum opened in 2016. the foundation letter memo for the museum was written in 1916 after 1915's civil war veterans on their 50th anniversary of the american civil war came to washington, d.c. and they were snubbed. there weren't places for them to sleep like the white veterans. there weren't places for them to go eat like the white veterans. they had to go to segregated area. and they decided that there needed to be something to commemorate not only their military experience, but it also mentions music, art and culture and a host of other things. and that letter is in the museum when you go on the concourse. thank you. [ appl

black feminism, where we -- what some call abolitionist feminism have given us the tool to talk about the issues and recognize when you want to try to deal situation in which a woman is being abused by a know --or whatever, you you don't have to immediately call the police because the assumption is we will deal with it and you don't have to call the police. become really [indiscernible] there are ways we can call the and i think wet have to begin to develop more remedies thatte don't depend on the state, that don't depend on the police because when the police involved, you are just adding another level of violence. when you go to prison for, you are adding another level of violence, so when you get out, you will be more violent than when you win in, so i think technology and the complexity and acknowledging the fact we have to figure it out ourselves. we have to figure out new ways of dealing with these issues and not primarily women's problems. aroundthese issues violence are considered to be women's issues. they most consistent forms of violence in the entire world are intimate viol

let's remember, when abolitionists spoke out and civil rights workers marched, their oppressors said they were dividing the races and violating the word of god. but frederick douglas said it best and harriet tubman and dr. king knew to love the religion of jesus is to hate the religion of the slave master [ cheers and applause when we have true unity, no one will be subjugated for others. it's about fighting for a country with equal treatment, collective purpose and freedom for all. [ cheers and applause that's who we are. that's who we are. and so i stand before you today -- [ cheers and applause i stand before you today, clear-eyed, about the fight ahead and what has to be done. with faith in god, with fidelity to country, and with the fighting spirit i got from my mother -- [ cheers and applause i stand before you today to announce my candidacy for president of the united states [ cheers and applause >> kamala! kamala kamala >> thank you thank you. >> and i will tell you, i'm running for president because i love my country. i love my country. i'm running to be president of the peo

it is important to know many women who were abolitionists were also deeply involved in the fight to secure suffrage. some people -- historians are unclear, but some do behind the scenes and under the table, women were told let's get slavery abolished first and then we will give, you'll love the the right to you vote. you.n't tell the issue in the newer, western very of the country was confusing. think back to the map that i showed you. west was he territories, so there weren't states yet and yet every time a in, there was always ike, should it be a free state or a slave state? a lot of problems. more women than men were against slavery and western women agreed with eastern sisters. the two most famous black women who were part of this was and harriet th and tubman. neither truth nor tubman visited western states. the movement in which they were involved engaged all of the attention of the western woman before the civil war in 1865. karen nation, temperance. for nation is most famous spearheading the temperance movement. alcohol abuseinst america.ohibition she was in kansas which was consid

i come from a family of abolitionists. maybe i would have some artifacts from his can i seein, five times great grandfather, that hadn't been killed. this means something to me. the be a -- the be a lism to make sure all men and now all women are created equal and we are endowed by our creator with certain uninalienable rights and that is life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. it's in my heart, work, soul. by the fruits you shall know them. but "the new york times" has a different version of this. they make a habit of attacking the president, as a matter of fact. and i look at this language that's here. this resolution that the house of representatives once again rejects white nationalism and white supremacy and hateful expressions of intolerance that's contradictory to the values that define the people of the united states. i agree with that language, i said, but i will add to it the language i used on this floor in this very place last friday afternoon when i said, i would strengthen it by adding my previous statements, wh

no abolitionist was going to penetrate that wall and get him to have any innovative thoughts on that. those are some lee issues or characteristics. yes? >> this is not on the question of the battle of antietam. how did you get from homestead to antietam? >> a couple ways. the last -- the three books i have written most recently are all sort of civil war books, and antietam makes cameos in all of them. the head of a medical unit that was very present at antietam. he said antietam was such a humanitarian nightmare, disaster. he was present there. i remember reading about it. i was reading in this case about sort of the aftermath of the battle. it certainly gripped me hearing about what i was able to get from doing my research then. my next book was about whitman and a group that spent the civil war hanging out in a bar in manhattan, kind of objectors before that term arose. they got wind or caught news of the way antietam -- they heard about this horrible battle that they felt was yet another reason that, you know, that this war was unjust. then, you know, i decided i thought i would ju