there have been very few pictures exhibited that beecher people of african descent. some but not many this is not just featuring african descent but clearly a political statement opposed to american slavery. with the amazing coincidence it opened may 7, 1861, the first shot was fired at fort sumter previously all of london was talk paying about to the war of all so what role should the united kingdom take in the american war. many were in favor of supporting the confederate because of the money they made from american cotton. britain remained neutral but at that moment nobody knew what would happen. >> host: where their slaves in great britain at that time? >> guest: no. it had been abolished officially 1838. it had been of long time since it was directly involved but it is the place where the entice debris movements began and was quite involved after words trying to end u.s. slavery then they continued in brazil and cuba until long after americans they agreed ended. >> host: as the art historian walk us through this painting. >> guest: i tried to block the workers t

. >> when daniel beecher complained about constant headaches, people thought he was making excuses.t hehes were read more severe than normal. >> i had it for a week straight. i was having two a day. >> that was during the summer. then school started, and daniel's headaches began to really get in the way. >> i'd have to be in a dark room, away from light, away from noise, 'cause that only makes the headaches worse. so i really had to step aside for at least an hour and just let it subside. >> the headaches were affecting daniel's schoolwork, so he and his mother went to the north shore university hospital's headache center. there, they met dr. noah rosen. the doctor discovered that daniel's headaches weren't just headaches. they were migraines. >> well, a migraine doesn't feel like a typical headache. it can feel like a throbbing and exploding -- a crushing pain. it can feel like nothing else that you've ever experienced. >> migraines also tend to occur on only one side of the head, and the biggest sign that you have them is if they interfere in your daily life. this all matched danie

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when he was in new york city, he had bought a copy of harriet beecher stowe's uncle tom's cabin that had just been released at the end of 1852. he read this novel and he was heralded by the contents. it horrified him. the story of american slavery, and he was particularly attracted to the slave trade. the commercial aspect of slavery. the selling of humans from one to another. and he was determined when he got to a southern city to witness this himself. he opens a newspaper at his hotel and he sees several advertisements for the slaves. and he asks them on working there, who is probably an enslaved man himself, or the sails were located, and they were just a few blocks away from his hotel. just a few blocks away from thomas jefferson, and virginia's state capitol building. this great symbolic image of democracy and three blocks away, people were being sold. day in and day out from every day, six days a weekweek, 52 weeks a year career. the reader can go on that same journey with eyre crowe it. they can walk by businesses he would've walked past, to understand where to place them wher