douglass of' memory. broke him, lost his will. at one point he fled back to st. michael's and begged thomas auld to just take me away from that fiend. auld said no. it's probably your own fault. go back in the morning. he went back the next morning tail between his legs. but it was a sunday and edward covey didn't beat slaves on sunday, but on monday morning, he met douglass working in the stables lifting hay. with a switch, and according to douglass, he resisted, and they fought, claimed douglass, for two years. two hours. i've never believed that that fight lasted two hours. who knows. maybe 20 minutes. but according to douglass in this pivotal moment of his life as a slave, at least it's the way he portrays it, he fought back physically with his hands, and he fought edward covey and beat him. now, under the law and under most circumstances, douglass was now in mortal danger. but covey did nothing about it. and douglass interprets it, we don't have much in the way of other forms of interpretation, he in

so it's as a moral voice that douglass has a place. he had been giving the country a narrative and argument, infinite supply of metaphors through which to try to imagine the recreation of an american republic rooted in the destruction of slavery and the transformation of the constitution. one of the great facts or even ironies of frederick douglass' life, born 1818, dies 195, if you look at the trajectory of his life, he's in his mid-40s during the civil war. he lives to see the triumph to use your word, the triumph of the cause he had spent his adult life arguing for but probably never believing he would see that triumph. but he then also lives another 30 years. he didn't die till he was 77. he lives another 30 years to see the virtual betrayal of that triumphant cause. so there's a trajectory to douglass' life, call it moral, call it temporal, call it whatever you want, that is fascinating. his relationships, of course, with lincoln and grant were very complex. he met lincoln three times as i just said earlier here in the lecture. he

one of douglass' hands was broken, and douglass said for years afterwards he said that william white saved his life that day. a man who had a big stick was standing over douglass and was about to hit him over the head and may well have killed him and william white stopped it from happening. they do get away. they're not murdered that day in pendleton, indiana, and douglass felt grateful to white for the rest of his life. william white is one of those unsung heroes of the abolitionist movement. there are hundreds of people that we don't know very much about who nonetheless took an active part in the movement and white is one of them. douglass said later, i shall never forget we were like two brothers. we were ready to dare to do and even die for each other. he said that william white was a noble person. this is high praise from one abolitionist to another. we must remember that even though douglass was a black man and a slave and had experienced all kinds of racial prejudice in his life, he did not hate white people. he understood that there were good hearted, decent white people like

frederick douglass. frederick douglass spelled his name with two "ss." frederick douglass. he was born in the 1880s in maryland. his father died or deserted the family before he was born. he was owned by a family named anthony. the surname anthony. the anthonys were slave owners in maryland and the city of baltimore as well. frederick douglass' mother died when he was young and he was raised by his grandmother. he was fond and close to his cousins and siblings on the different anthony plantations. dougl douglass said slavery was quite harsh. he witnessed the master flogging of his aunt. he witnessed other relatives and friends being severely punished. he got a very interesting reprieve. he was sent to baltimore to work for a relative of the anthony family. when he was in baltimore, he learned how to read. the wife of the man he worked for taught him to read. a white woman taught him to read. she thought a slave should be able to read the bible. she was a devout christian. she thought a slave should be able to read the bible although this was illegal in many parts of the sou

fredrick douglass spelled his name with two s's. frederick douglass was born in the late 18-teens in maryland. he was a slave. his father died or deserted the family before he was born, and he was owned by a family named anthony, the surname anthony, and the anthonys were slave owners who had relatives in rural maryland and also in the city of baltimore. frederick douglass's mother died when he was young and he was largely raised by his grandmother. he was also very fond of and close to his many cousins, his siblings, and his relatives on the different anthony plantations. douglass said later that slavery there was quite harsh. he witnessed the master flogging one of his relatives once, one of his aunts was flogged by the master. he witnessed other relatives and friends being severely punished, and then he got a very interesting reprieve. he was sent to baltimore to work for a relative of the anthony family and when he was in baltimore he learned how to read. the wife of the man he worked for in baltimore taught him to read, a white

douglass and mr. white. douglass said there were people in the audience who looked very angry like they were going to do something about their antagonism to the speaker. after the lecture, 30 white men started to tear down the platform and beat up frederick douglass and william white. one of douglass' hands was broken. he said william white saved his life that day. a man with a big stick was about to hit him over the head and william white stopped it from happening. they do get away. they are not murdered that day in pendleton, indiana. douglass felt grateful to white for the rest of his life. he is an unsung hero. there are hundreds of people that we don't know about who took an active part in the movement. douglass said i shall never forget we were like two brothers. we were ready to dare and do and die for each other. william white was a noble person. this is high praise from one abolitionist to another. we must remember although douglass was a black man and slave and was involved with prejudice, he had a

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my subject, of course, is frederick douglass. he was born frederick augustus washington bailey on the holme hill farm along the tuckahoe river in talbot county on maryland's eastern shore in february 1818. a little more on that background in just a moment. in this year 1862, frederick douglass resides in rochester, new york, where he moved in 1847 after his return from a more than two-year sojourn in great britain. where he moved in part for security and safety for himself and his family, even though at that point, his legal freedom was purchased that very year by his british friends. he would no longer have to live as a fugitive slave. but rochester was to a degree an enclave of anti-slavery neighbors. he is in at this point the 15th year of editing the longest lasting black anti-slavery newspaper ever, then known as "douglass' monthly." earlier known as "the north star." he travels constantly as the single most sought after anti-slavery orator in the land. he is at this point in 1862, the author of more than 1,000 editorials in

we heard from david blithe who dominated frederick douglass. james mcpherson nominated a miller david farragut and you heard the nomination of george b. mcclellan. we're going to open up our phone lines for your thoughts and your comments and questions about the day and hear your comments for john mountcastle as well. a couple of ways you can participate by phone, the numbers are 202-3855. and also for the mountain and pacific it's 585-3856. we wanted to remind you in case you missed today's procedure at the library of virginia, we will reair all of this in its entirety including the phone segments this evening at 6:00 p.m. eastern and 1:00 a.m. eastern on sunday morning. that's ahead of us. also this afternoon if you don't get through on the phones if you want to make a comment at twitter.com you can do that and the handle we're using for twitter is totw1862. and also on facebook, facebook.com/cspan. before we speak to john mountcastle. a tweet from tammy price, she says her choice for person of the year 1862 would be frederick douglass althou

or frederick douglass, they said, "look at how great our ideals are." if you look at the average american, should be -- should america support dictatorships, the answer would be no, and if you ask them should we not be hypocritical and live up to our own ideals, i think most americans would agree, and it comes down to what it means to love your country. if you love your child and find that your child is beating people up or stealing, if you love your child, you try to correct them, and if you love your country and find that it is doing something it should not be doing, you try to correct your government. i cannot think of anyone more critical of their country than martin luther king jr.. no one is going to call susan b. anthony or mark twain or frederick douglass and patriotic. they are as patriotic as apple pie. you have to board your country accountable and help your country live up to its own ideals. >> -- tavis: i know what you mean when you are saying about not calling martin luther king and patriotic, but he got this invited to the johnson white h

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

that's where the line from frederick douglass, the title, "agitator's daughter," he was my father's hero. he was always quoting him. when he was on the campaign trail in the black belt, sharecroppers were trying to give him a reason to register to vote to go to the polls, and he would always invoke douglass and say, you know, don't sit around waiting for others to do right by you. power is nothing without demand. go forth and demand your power. >> host: what do you teach here at georgetown? >> guest: i'm a professor of law. i teach a critical history course that covers most of the race pace of society in the supreme court, and i teach constitutional law and administrative law and sometimes properties, sometimes local civil law. >> host: when you approach public affairs or submit this to the publisher, what was the answer back from public affairs? why were they interested in this story? >> guest: well, fortunately, i already had a prior relationship. "public affairs" was the first book, which is a book about why we still struggle to be an innovative society. i had a relationship with them

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among those discussioned abolitionist leader frederick douglass, robert e. lee, and george b. mcclellan, the general who had a campaign to take the confederate capital of richmond. c-span's 2012 local content vehicle cities tour takes our book tv and american history tv programming on the road. this past weekend featured little rock, arkansas. with book tv at the university of arkansas. >> the high school collected photographs and he was particularly, again, interested in the 19th century, the civil war in particular. these are two friends, union and confederate, who knew each other prior to the civil war, who fought against each other at the battle of pearidge in 1862, survived the war, came out alive and remained friends after the war and here they are age 100 sitting on the porch talking about the old days. >> american history tv looked at life in a world war ii jap these internment camp. >> a lady wrote a wonderful book and gamman meant surviving the unsurvivable, sort of. and she talks a lot about how the arts and the crafts were how they kept their sanity and it gave the

blight for the yale center of the study of slavery resistance and abolition nominated frederick douglass. david fair gut, and the former of choo of military history for the army john mount castle and robert e. lee nominated by professor thomas and we'll talk to him in a moment. in case you missed any of today's event we'll show the entire program beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern this afternoon and at 1:00 a.m. on sunday morning. we'll open up the phone lines and we'll have them open for your calls while they count the votes. here are the numbers for the eastern and central time zones. the number is 202-585-3885 and 202585-3886. we'll take your calls until they announce the winner. >> been getting a lot of tweets as well at twitter.com/c-span. our handle is @c-spanhistory just in case you want to favor that. the hash tag today is person of the year 1862. #poty1862. just want to read one tweet before we go back to professor thomas. here's one from wilhelm ii. he's not worthy of conversation. i nominate ben butler and that from our twitter folks. >> we'll go to professor thomas at the library

. >> frederick douglass once said i trust i am not dreaming. he was talking about emancipation day, 150 years ago today. this afternoon, hundreds of d.c. schoolchildren are taking part in the annual parade. it is officially a holiday as of seven years ago. people around the country tells you emancipation day goes along with -- , but in the district they will tell you it's far more important. >> from 1886, it means more to them than half a dozen fourth of july's. >> today pennsylvania avenue in the nation's capital is adorned at with dozens of d.c. flags. >> it reminds us how far we have come in the united states. we have an african-american president. >> 150 years later the d.c. government is marking the they by giving city employees and public school students the day off and holding this traditional parade. the day started with a morning prayer service attended by the city's elected officials. a mckinley tech high school drum major -- >> the idea that people walked down the street in chains is something we will never witness again, because we

david blight choosing frederick douglass and james mcpherson with david farragut. the phone lines will be open in just a moment. make sure you mute your television when you call in. you can send us a tweet. twitter.com/cspan. our hash tag today if you want to jot this down is poty1862. post your choice for person of the year on facebook. facebook.com/cspan is where you go. just a quick tweet and facebook reading. ben says that his choice would be greely and second choice would be robert e. lee. on facebook a look at our facebook page, james saying that it's george mcclellan. as much as i despite him, it is not what it will become in 1863. some of the thoughts of viewers on twitter and facebook. let's go back to the library and james mcpherson who just nominated admiral david farragut as his choice for person much of the year 1862. james mcpherson, if you look at the selection, admiral farragut would be the only admiral on the list. you talked in your speech about the political implications of his victories in 1862. were they the main reason that france and britain

washington and george washington carver, but she lectured about the contribution of frederick douglass, w.e.b. dubois, and how jackie robinson had broken the baseball barrier. and we remembered the opera singer who was not allowed to sing in the hall and had to sing in lincoln center. all the discrimination and the local in justices. like, everything was separate and unequal. the school was inadequate. we could not go to the hospitals. they built a house adjacent to the main hospital. the white people were not supposed to be in the same room with an n-person. you know the n-word? i said to myself at the end of the day that i love my country and i'm glad that that day, i took a stand. i saw through the supreme court that the flaws that america had tried to correct them by removing those horrible signs -- "white" and "colored." i said when i testified at the trial, i went through how we were treated, and the lady dramatize it, so i do not have to go through that, but it is the whole system of separate but unequal. it is understates rights -- is under states' rights. after lincoln had fre

and douglass would have no home there. now, times change. history changes. parties move on, people move on. new political persuasions, no issues, no coalitions grow and he would understand that. but i can tell you that if we can guess at one thing, he would resent current modern day republicans calling themselves the party of lincoln. >> david blight from the yale university study of slavery resistance and abolition and one of the five historians participating in the person of the year 1862 at the library of virginia. good luck with the results this afternoon and thanks for taking the time to speak with our viewers. >> thank you very much. you are watching a museum of confederacy foreup, who "time" magazine would have chosen as person of the year in 1862 in the midst of the civil war 150 years ago. our civil war coverage continues this weekend when we focus on the battle of shilo in southwestern tennessee, april 6, 7, 1862. the civil war, on american history tv, this saturday at 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. eastern and sunday at 11:00 a.m. >> this saturday at no

among the names discussed, abolitionist leader frederick douglass, confederate general robert e. lee, and george b. mcclellan, the union general who commanded a failed 1862 campaign to take the confederate capital of richmond. this is c-span 3. with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week and every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. each weekend on american history tv learn more about the presidents, their policies and legacies, through their historic speeches and discussions with leading historians. every sunday morning at 8:30 eastern and again at 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. here on c-span 3. and to find out more about the series and our other programming, including our weekend schedules and online video, visit c-span.org/history. while the founding fathers get the credit for the creation of america, without the encouragement and work of many women things may have ended up differently. next, g

that doesn't explain why frederick douglass was a republican until the end of his life, for example. again, just like a lot of popular journalistic versions of history, that sold more books than anybody on this panel will probably sell. probably anybody out there combined will ever sell of their books. i think it's had a good impact of sort of young people on the left, encourage them to be activists because it gives them a narrative. all the time that there were a lot of people in our profession who were dumping on the master narrative. i was never one of those people. not that we should have one narrative everyone subscribes to. unless we have a coherent narrative, if it's all complexity, if it's all exceptions to this, exceptions to that, then people will be bored by it and only scholars will want to read about it. i was so happy when, you know, jackson wrote his wonderful book. "rebirth of a nation." this is, i think, the best narrative of this period, but it's a narrative which is unlike zen, alive to contradiction, alive to irony, alive to tragedy of a sort of classic kind. but

airmail contracts to incent the manufacturers to build new, productive airplanes and eventually douglass did that with the dc-3 and famous c-47 end of it, which was a big part of our victory in world war ii. so what the government needs to do today in my opinion, not try to pick winners and losers among general motors or ford or whatever the case may be, but to provide the incentives for the private sector to build vehicles and help drive the cost of the battery down and increase the range so that for light duty vehicles, there is an alternative to fossil fuels. it's not going to replace it. plenty of internal combustion engines are going to be built for a long time. so i think that's different than picking a winner and it's certainly not the same as the government putting money into solyndra or putting money into solar or what have you. that is worth an environmental issue. we have lots of power generating fuels in the united states. we have coal. we have natural gas. we have geothermal. we have -- we have certainly solar and wind, but they're a tiny fraction. we have nuclear and so for

. >> there will be tree planting at frederick douglass high school beside george hill park.everybody can volunteer and come over to eco-fest afterwards and plant a tree. >> people can find more information online. you'll be having a free tree giveaways. >> treebaltimore.org will inform everybody about the giveaways we're having as well as the plantings this spring. >> let's check the radar. the rain is exiting offshore. we will back to tony. the sun is coming up. it is beautiful at the park. we do need the rain. >> this is kind of important. the discussion about global warming and climate change has become a political discussion instead of a scientific one. we have to take care of the place that we live. we should be participating in events like this. thank you. do you agree? >> well said. we have earth day and we have a week to bring the awareness and passed it down to the younger generation's. >> thank you. here is the story. the storm is moving off the coast. the rain helped out what the pollen. the pollen count is way down. the further the storm moves off the coast, the

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it happened on the roadway in front of frederick douglass high school where the two pygmy goats had closes with numerous drives while playing in traffic. a citizen alerted firefighters at this nearby station. >> she was frantically telling one of the crew members that there were farm animals, goats, roaming around on the road and cars were swerving to avoid hitting them and she was afraid they'd get ran over and wanted to know if tweed help gather them up. >> reporter: fire -- if we'd help gather them up. >> reporter: firefighters rushed to the scene and found citizens and a landscaping crew trying to round up the goats, a good deed that could have turned bad quickly if safety measures were not taken. >> we had to shut down the traffic, shut down the roadway. they're under the fire truck, under the ambulance and under cars and running through the weeds and trees. >> reporter: after an initial capture and escape by one of the goats -- >> they're fast. >> reporter: rescue crews were finally able to herd the two animals into a small area and capture them. lieutenant beards and her family are

. >> i kept thinking of the great debates between lincoln and douglass, "wait a moment, mr. lincoln, before you take up the issue of slavery, we have a commercial for you." they have taken over the process, in that regard. you can't play unless you play on their turf, which is governed by the rules of commerce. >> the league of women voters doesn't have a chance any more. >> they used to be the sponsors of the presidential debates. >> exactly. instead, the purpose of these debates is in order to have commercials. the suspense and coming back, those are devices deployed, in order to have people watch what happens in between. these are moneymaking propositions. they give bragging rights for those that get high ratings. they have nothing to do with the content. because if they did have to do with the content, then the moderators would have to spend all their time saying, "i can't believe you just said that. that is so wrong. how can you say that?" instead they say, "well, governor perry, what do you think of what congressman bachmann just said?" that's what happens. that's what

she has serve as an instructor at the frederick douglass creative arts center where she started two workshops in the art of short-story and the arch of red ink for children. welcome. joel dreyfuss is editor at large of "the root" which as many of you know is the leading online source of news and commentary about african-american perspective. joe has been editor-in-chief of information week, and executive editor of black enterprise and earlier shared with me that he lives and works out of paris. we are very jealous of that. akoto ofori-atta is assistant editor of "the root". she has a position at mcgraw-hill co. and communications and business and marking it associate for business week magazine. welcome. and montague kobbe is a writer in madrid and he has written for the indian newspaper and work for the daily herald. let's welcome our panelists. [applause] i want to be a troublemaker and start with foil johnson who was a troublemaker himself. so you wrote to me and i will repeat for the audience that you're convinced that social media will not do us any good in the long term. in fact it might

so, it's not a case where somebody said to douglass, you may not bring out your baby.t's not what happened in this case. >> thank you mr. gottlieb. >> thank you very much. >>> an 80-year-old grandmother is stuck in air when her husband, the pilot, blacks out in the cockpit. she did get down to the ground, saving herself. it is an incredible story. we'll show you how it happened. you're watching "cbs this morning." ♪ here you go. [ male announcer ] people everywhere are helping save trees in just 4 weeks... uh...mom? ...without even noticing. as the world's first line of hybrid paper products, scott naturals combines the green benefits of recycled fiber with the quality you need -- so only our forests will notice the difference. [ male announcer ] take the scott naturals 4-week test drive. if we all did it we'd save over 2 million trees. start your test drive at scottbrand.com. check out the latest collection of snacks from lean cuisine. creamy spinach artichoke dip, crispy garlic chicken spring rolls. they're this season's must-have accessory. lean cuisine. be culinary

they walked out of frederick douglass. they said enough is enough. are young black men who often malaligned themselves as not caring about education. the first ones to be identified as special ed, the first ones to be suspended these kids are saying that is not us. you are missing the point. we want an education. we came here to learn and nobody is teaching us. one teacher out 68 days? are you kidding me? >> yeah. that was kind of a stunning number in some of the statistics on the story and shocking. steve perry, nice to see you. still ahead, we will talk about women voters when are fleeing the gop and some key swing states. new polls showing that president obama is trouncing republicans among female voters. we will break down those numbers for you. >>> the actor who is going to play steve jobs in a new movie. he is not really known for playing thoughtful, brilliant men. we will tell you who it is. >>> we leave you with peter's playlist. elvis costello. ♪ [ acoustic guitar: slow ] [ sighs ] [ announcer ] all work and no play... will make brady miss h