investigation had revealed new information but they want to be more specific >> school administrators in caulker warning parents about a man who tried to lure a student into his van. the school district says a heavyset bald man repeatedly asked the girl to get into his car and she walked to school, she was able to run away and called her parents. >> last-minute tax returns have been trickling into bay area post offices all day and with the deadline looming this state of california makes a last- minute reversal on the tax roll. the change means that taxpayers will get bigger refunds and bigger headaches >> we reported the state franchise tax board would start limiting how much of your property tax you could deduct. now they say never mind, keep the ducting the whole thing so thousands of californians who have already filed may want to amend their taxes. the last minute has officially arrived and with that, an about- face by the tax board. >> this is such an inconvenience to the clients >> she says it could mean thousands of taxpayers may need to amend their taxes because the state now says that h

in new bedford, he worked as i caulker, and a day laborer until about 1839, 1840. he escaped in 1838 but he began to speak at a black church. the african methodist episcopal zion church of new bedford and it was there that he was discovered as an orator in his fledgling youth of mere 21, 22 years old. he was discovered by william lloyd garrison's massachusetts's anti-slavery society. they invited him out to a big rally on nantucket island in august of 1841. he's only three years out of slavery. and there he gave his first public abolitionist speech. he was so talented, so effective at telling his own personal story as a slave that the garrisonians hired him, took him on the road and within a couple of years, he was probably the most sought after and famous abolitionist speaker on the entire northern circuit. >> we have lots of folks waiting on the line to talk to you, professor blight. it's hearer from david in pennington, new jersey. welcome. >> hello, professor. thank you so much. i absolutely have to agree with you on the importance of frederick douglass. i've a

it was there he began to learn a craft as a caulker, it was there he got in his first street fights. he had to defend himself. it was there that he had to learned clandestine ways to hide his fascination with language, to smuggle newspapers under his pillow in his loft bed and try to read at night by a candle. it was there that he began to learn that the worst part of slavery wasn't physical bondage, it was psychological bondage. it was there that he learned he had to find his own ways to mentally survive. he was once again sent back to the eastern shore as a 16-year-old teenager to thomas auld. he worked in thomas auld's store in st. michael's. auld couldn't control this kid anymore. he's a 16-year-old boy. he was always complaining that he was hungry. and he had never done field work. he had never been a field hand. and auld had him out doing every kind of field work. and young now growing frederick bailey hated it. auld was the first master to whip him but auld wasn't very good at it. and auld gave up. for the better part of a year, rented douglass to a ceremony known slave breake

frederick douglass did this as a caulker in baltimore. and essentially in exchange for this you're given a lot more freedom. and for the slave holder it meant he didn't have to provide you with food, didn't have to provide you with clothing, nor did he have to provide you with a place to stay. that you had to do on your own but you had to pay him a certain amount of money. while it was a burden for those who chose to do this, it also freed up their lives, gave them more options and choices in terms of what they could do, creating a separate life and existence for themselves. and in addition, they had a chance to live in the city in a much more vibrant, diverse, and interesting setting in which to make choices about their future. the other advantage is that there's a growing free african-american community in washington, d.c., during this period. and what they do as well as offer alternatives about a different way of life, a different set of possibilities. again, if you read frederick douglass, he talks a lot about this in baltimore. you c