douglass, et cetera, et cetera.id this new biography because i encountered as you may know if you read some of the book a new private collection of douglass' manuscripts which was almost unbelievable when i first saw it. a man in savannah, georgia, maimedmaim ed named walter evans. walter is a very good businessman, waited until after my book came out to cut his final deal with the beneke leaders of resources, let's put that way. the beneke is one of the world's greatest manuscripts, treasures beyond your belief. they paid one of the highest prices ever for this collection on frederick douglass, which is, i don't know, says something about our times. james weldon johnson is a very different character. if you don't know james weldon johnson, you're not alone. people who are in the field of black history may tend to know him. but long story made short, he was a poly math. born post civil war, born in 1871, jacksonville, florida, his parents were both free, one parent was from the bahamas, one parent -- the other from

douglass? douglass has to be careful how he answers that question, because if he says, no, i don't really believe that, every northerner will vote against him. but if he says, yeah i do believe that. i do believe slavery can be excluded by negative popular sovereignty he is losing every democratic voter in the south. can the people of a territory in any lawful way against the wishes of any citizen,o of the united states exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a state constitution? i answer emphatically as mr. lincoln heard me answer a hundred times. remember the stump in illinois, that in my opinion the people of a territory can by lawful means exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a state constitution. which pinpoint stephen a. douglass slit his throat politically, publicly, as far as any future support from southern democrats. it matters not what way the supreme court may here after decide. the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude i

there is so much more to douglass. it has been in the last 20 to 25 years, 30 years if you push it, yeah, at least 30, it gets back to my first book. so he's been taken seriously as a thinker, very seriously as a thinker, by political theorists, by law school professors, he has been taken seriously by literary critics for a long time. that's where it all start door douglass, one article after another, about chapter one his narrative, where he watchis his aunt beaten to a bloody pulp by his owner. that must have stimulated 45 essays by literary critic. but all different disciplines have now discovered douglass as artist and thinker. that was not always the case. if americans attempted to know anything about douglass until relatively recent times, that didn't mean they knew much at all they knew something about the young heroic douglass, the escaped slave. they might have known it by reading the first narrative because it is about this coming of age as an escaped slaver. but that's it. the mature thinker, a man who came

frederick douglass was tortured there in 1833, 1834. it is the same actual physical place in which the great frederick douglass was tortured and beaten and worked nearly to death every day for a year. whether or not you think that place should be purchased by this country and made into a memorial for the worst, most violent evils of slavery, and their role in turning on americans conscious is to end slavery, and right, that is a substantive an interesting proposal. whether or not you're into that idea, would you want to live there yourself? would you like to wake up there in the morning play their breakfast, who would do that? -- that article published was published published and controversial at that time. because in writing that beast, it revealed the exact home address of a senior government official, that in fact had made mount misery his private home. his name was donald rumsfeld. and he was at the time, in the summer of 2006, struggling to the end of his disastrous tenure as secretary of defense of the georgia we bush administrati

this is part of how frederick douglass describes him. he says, quote, i have now lived with him, meaning his slave owner, nearly nine months, and he had given me a number of severe whippings, without any visible improvement in my character or any conduct. now he was resolved to put me out as he said, quote, to be broken. there was in the bay side a man named edward covey, who enjoyed the execrated reputation of being a first rate hand at breaking young negroes. breaking. frederick does las then goes on in chapter after chapter after chapter in this autobiography. chapter in this autobiography. look at this. the experience. you know, covey's manner of proceeding to whip. chapter after chapter after chapter he describes this experience, the way that edward covey tortured him and beat him nearly to death and worked him nearly to death all the try to destroy frederick douglass's spirit, to turn him into a docile slave who would work without question, where he would then be returned to his owner. because douglass is so capable and brilliant,

douglass's genius was in not shying away from the inherent contradictions in the american story.the ideas of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, words that have echoed through the centuries as the rallying cry of freedom. but words that all the same were penned by a man who held his fellow human beings in bondage, and ratified by men occupying stolen lands. and while american slavery was abolished within douglasa's lifetime his own words still reverberate as powerfully as jefferson's, because we still have lessons to learn from them. douglass encouraged his audience to stand by the principles of the declaration of independence against all foes at whatever cost. just as frederick douglass once fought for abolition as the first and most imperative step toward fulfillment of the american promise, so, too, must we fight for liberty and justice for all. generations of americans have fought at home and abroad to ensure that we can safely celebrate this independence day. it is those untold thousands who make this country worth celebrating from the very first american patriots w

douglass forced his audience to recognize the hospital accuracy of the occasion.ng away from the inherent tricks in the american story. this nation was founded on the ideas of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, words that have echoed through the centuries as the rallying cry of freedom. but words that all the same were penned by a man who held his fellow human beings in bondage, and ratified by men occupying stolen lands. and while american slavery was abolished within douglasa's life time his own words still reverberate as powerfully as jeffersons, because we still have lessons to learn from them. douglass encouraged his audience to stands by the principles of the declaration of independence against all foes at whatever cost. just as frederick douglass once fought for abolition towards the most imperative step toward fulfillment of the american promise, so, too, must we fight for liberty and justice for all. generations of americans have fought at home and abroad to ensure that we can safely celebrate this independence day. it is those untold thousands

he went on to tweet this "douglass rightly and ferociously called out injustice but contrast douglassoptimism, passion for justice and unifying call for america to live up to her grand ideals with the squad's angry, hateful, consistently anti-american venom. it is a contrast indeed. >> you think about our founding documents and our constitution, this is a flawed country but we are provided all of the tools and the things that we need to fix it. i think about the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment to the constitution abolishing slavery, providing poor citizenship and voting rights. we got a lot of things right in our attempts to make them better. are we perfect? no. do we need to have conversations and talk about how we heal some of these ones? yes we do. there are people out there who benefit from us being divided whether it's political or financial power, but at the truth is i think the heart of america is less divided many media elites want us to think it is. a secretary rightly points out that the biggest voices and most powerful voices out there are the ones that are headline news and

that david life knows more about frederick douglass then frederick douglass did. >> i had a conversationhis. >> and the documentary rights to his book that will be aired on hbo next year. >> one final question. how can we implement the book the black church into the k-12 curriculum? >> we talked about this. my dear friend needs no introduction to this audience and has asked me to work with him the reconstruction curriculum about the black church and jim is a hard person to say no to but i would like your input because what i did giving as shout out to my the editor in the audience was to tell black history to the evolution of the black church. so instead of putting into the history of african-americans we tell the history through the church and through the denominations. oh and i would tell you about the triangular structure. born in 1825 what is now in west virginia but daniel payne was born 1811 born free of them a lot of of the brown society not too dark you were brown and becomes bishop of the church in 1852 after tell you the story. he believes they should sit and seeing the hymns b

. >> 1867, frederick douglass appealed to congress in 2021, texas legislature came to washington, d.c mlk was an activist. john lewis was an activist. sojourner truth was an activist. there is nothing wrong with activism to push the levers of power to do the right thing, and i think that is what texas democrats and civil rights leaders are calling for. >> the threat to have you all arrested when you return to texas and supposedly to track you down like the fugitive slave act. >> laura: joining me now, founder of -- cynthia, we played some of kamala last night at the end of the show, but i'm interested in your thoughts on her specifically invoking frederick douglass in this little drama. >> looked, laura, i know i am not here to be speechless, but i have to tell you i am speechless and i have been speechless all day about this because to compare frederick douglass to the bozos that left their job in texas to serve the people that elected them, to them, as if they are some threat to the nation because all the texas legislature wants to do is pass a voting security bill. they want to pro

figure six frederick douglass and harriet tubman on the face of admittance diversity of cracked openr to change. confederate ideology by contrast, was a acdefense of slavery in the political supremacy of slaveholders, flatly rejected the possibility of progress they were about enemies of change and sought to close that door to freedom and chain shots. the union causes frederick douglass himself invoking the war of ideas, was based upon the broadest and grandest declaration of human rights the world ever heard or read. the confederacy was on shocking denial. the right side won the war and falls to us to fulfill the promise of that victory, thank you. : : : high school and a member f the student advisory council of the institute of american history. i'm honored honored to inintrodr next guest, larry walker, acknowledge thing finalis of the 2021 lincoln prize. larry is a a businessman and civic leader just getting for college and from prize word altering the government this award. mary, please tell us about the 2021 finalists. >> thank you and good evening. it is a privilege to be here

entitled frederick douglass prophet of freedom which garnered nine book awards including the pulitzer prize for history. and i will note we have been privileged here the medicine foundation now to have two back-to-back fillets or prize pe winners deliver this for us. without further ado, please join me in welcoming doctor david blight. [applause] forgive me for bringing all of these books and notes up here. sorry i was told to do that. for god. my microphone is on i presume. i apologize for bringing all these books up here but it's just the way i teach. there's no light on this podium but that's okay i think. anyway, hello. i've had as you can tell by the introduction way too many privileges in this profession here and there and book prizes and all that stuff but a few of you know me well enough and might believe me that there is really nothing more a thrill to me than to be with teachers, to speak with teachers and teach with teachers. i've been doing these institutes for i don't know, 25 years. coordinator of three, four or five of those. it's possible some of you may have been in o

today in this special broadcast, we begin with the words of frederick douglass. born into slavery around 1818, douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. on july 5, 1852, in rochester, new york, he gave one of his most famous speeches, "what to the slave is the fourth of july?" he was addressing the rochester ladies' anti-slavery society. this is james earl jones reading the historic address during a performance of voices of a people's history of the united states co-edited by howard zinn. the latereat historian introduced the address. >> frederick douglass, once a slave, became a brilliant and powerful leader of the anti-slavery movement. in 1852, he was asked to speak in celebration of the fourth of july. frederick douglass: [read by james earl jones] fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am i called upon to speak here today? what have i, or those i represent, to do with your national independence? are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that declaration of independence, extended to us? and am

and the marxist left how they demean lincoln and frederick douglass. a colorblind society? all of the civil rights activist and movements and supreme court decisions. all they did was enshrined the white dominant society. it is now bleeding into our classroom supported by the teachers union in media no link in are ulysses s grant black lives matter are no martin luther king jr. or frederick douglass this is a great country it is a magnificent country. look at the border people pouring over from every corner of the world to escape their countries and culture. it's a nation worth defending that so my book american marxism about that's what the s about. see you next time on "life, liberty & levin". steve: former president trump on stage at cpac a short time ago. >> we will take back the house. we will take back the senate. and after everything that has gone wrong in such a short period of time with our borders, with our economy, crime, we will take back the glorious white house. steve: much more later. welcome to "the next revolution"

frederick douglass was a great orator. black people don't have social security numbers?e americans don't have i.d.? here is amy horowitz asked black voters about the voting laws. >> do you have an opinion of voter i.d. laws? >> they are pretty racist. >> it's a way to perpetuate race i'm:they are less likely to have state i am d.s. some people don't live in areas with easy access to dmvs. >> they don't have the knowledge of how it works. >> do you have i.d.? >> yes, i do. >> do you know any black person that doesn't carry i.d.? >> everyone i know has i.d. >> we heard black people have no access to the internet. >> everybody has access to the internet. >> they are pretty much ignorant. >> i think it's a little racist. jesse: the on people who think these laws are racist and suppress the black vote are liberals. they want to scare americans into submission with these racist laws. but it's a loss cause because we have the truth on our side. joining us is texas governor greg abbott. i saw an editorial in the as you continue statesman. even the liberal newspaper in the capito

and for douglass it was john brown. he said it was probably his worst book but also his most enjoyable book. and since then, of course, many books have been written about this man, john brown. the next year he goes international, and he found something called the pan-african movement the pan-african movement is movement to bring forth after cans from the rib -- africans from the caribbean -- [inaudible] to speak about the oppression of black people. and he wrote the same year to the nations of the world, and it was a plea sign by all these leaders. and here you can see there to develop policies, to decolonize the african countries and bring equality to the blacks, to stop the lynching, stop the robbing of the resources of haiti and ghana and guinea and many other places. and by 1919 it had developed so much it was called the pan-african congress. they had five between then and 1945. he wanted to have the first in america, in the united states, in new york, but woodrow wilson would not allow the other delegates. they did

>> the vice president of planning experts comparing them to civil rights leaders like frederick douglassmarchers and suffragettes but republicans say a cushy trip dc isn't exactly the same as what freedom fighters have gone through. >> they took bold, courageous action in line with everybody from frederick douglass. >> last i checked the heroic civil rights protesters were not in a private charter jet, didn't have a case of miller light next to them. >> reporter: the group of texas democrats will meet with moderate senator joe manchin to push him unending the filibuster the democrats can pass bills with littleton a republican support like sweeping election reform, the 50 plus democrat lawmakers, to stop of voting bill that they call voter suppression. >> nothing was going to happen so why keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different response, that is insanity and we refuse to do it which is why we left. >> reporter: there are calls by the speaker of the house to forfeit for their legislative stipend of $221 per day. members say they will give that money up, others sa

of kamala last night but i'm interested in your thoughts on her specifically invoking frederick douglassthis little drama. >> i'm not here to be speechless but i'm speechless. i have been speechless all day about this. to compare frederick douglas to the bozos that left their jobs in texas to serve the people that elected them as if there's some threat to the nation because the texas legislature wants to pass a voting security bill, they want to protect the rights but frederick douglass and people like him died for. all of us have the right to vote, for a voice to be heard to the voting process fairly. the problem here is so complex and multilevel that my head is been blowing up all day. frederick douglas said, one of my favorite quotes, the life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous, there's nothing honest about what these democratic the elected officials are doing, nothing truthful about what any of them are doing and nothing virtuous about this. you cannot turn this into a voting rights act. the voting rights act of 1965 was strongly opposed by d

he decided that frederick douglass

i think he would've talk to frederick douglass about it or booker t.ashington and all the people who talk about it today. i think he would've looked how do we do this? >> how were the canals financed? there was some speculation in the stock market so explain how this was financed. >> this is one of the interesting stories of american finance when they financed they floated some bonds which were horribly inadequate. for those sections of the canal which in management theory probably not a good idea in today's age you hire one contractor. for the contract out for bid and in the best bidder gets the job. and they send notices out to ireland to say to promise the poor irish guys doing to be a navigator? that's what they called them a navigator digging it by hand. so at first it was an undercapitalized project then they got foreign financing and then to build the canals of course the land-grant system is basically you get the land and you find the money to build it some money was raised for the transcontinental railroad mostly bonds but a lot of foreign inv

this fourth of july, let's remember what frederick douglass was fighting for and let's teach our kidscause if we don't, who will? ? pay for clean. it's got to be tide. >>> the trump organization is facing criminal allegations. now the district attorney is willing to tell the jury all she knows. jennifer weisselberg, the x daughter-in-law of allen to prosecutors who are seeking to gain better insight into the organizations business dealings. she said the document she provided are what help to get the 15 count indictment levied against the president's former namesake business. she told nbc, i'm thrilled to hear this is not about an apartment in a mercedes, this is a serious criminal organization, the grand larceny, theft, tax evasion and tax fraud. it is allen weisselberg, it is all the officers, it is the family. now she is still meeting with the da to discuss charges with trump himself. jennifer weisselberg joins us right now. i want to ask about this whole idea. donald trump said just last night what your tolling the manhattan da in the charges they filed, they are not just about a c

they wanted to be frederick douglass.ve got to do the work to be frederick douglass, you got to be the work to be mlk. from the media standpoint, they stumbled. because the moment never produced itself. let's be honest, the bill is going to be passed. they are going to be arrested when they come back to the state of texas. they won't be written in the history books. the media won't cover the story anymore, and every single thing the republicans want head after negotiating for months is going to be drafted in this bill. so the question is, where do we go from here? they've got to run on this. the democratic national committee is already invested in this. but it was never about texas, about hr one. it's about satirizing this. they're going to say, look, we tried to fight back. politico gave us four pinocchios, just like george apparently tried to fight. this is why we have to run on this in the next election. it has to be a federalized election system. and then that's when you're going to see the voters push back, because i

it boggles the mind to think what frederick douglass might have done with those words. going deeper into analyze how that happened is an important exercise for historians, i think. doing so reveals political leaders on a day-to-day basis making choices and trying to set priorities. to see the roots of why the revolution didn't actually live up to its soaring promises for many people, we have to focus on process. it means getting into the details. what did leaders choose to spend their time and money on? what were the boundaries of discourse for everyday people and how were they created? those boundaries weren't automatic or natural, i think. why it was totally okay for a lot of white loyalists to be reintegrated but not for anyone who wasn't a white guy. i think because those lines were managed. they took work. and we should do our best to see how that process worked. how ideas, whether about race or politics were fastened to the ground. and how narrative scripts that made up those tethers created unintended consequences because they helped to make the post-revolutionar

for the most famous african-american leaders in the 19th century really of all times, frederick douglass gave several speeches we spoke about african-americans might find land of peace in the west and how the states should support this endeavor financially. but to support this appeal, douglas immigrated native americans so it is speech to the american enterprise the city of 1869, douglas estes. negro is like a white man in the indian and the taste and tendencies in this position to accept civilization. the union rejects our civilization and it is not filled with the negro coming he remains with you under all circumstances and slavery and it freedom. now here we can see the clear dichotomy be made between african-americans and white americans in one hand and native americans on the other hand in the first native americans are on the bedside the uncivilized side. and really joining african-american goals behavior with the white people are civilizations heard in another earlier speech, for the landless. and the people of the national domain was an enterprising and intelligent and race of im

that the campaign for northern african-american men such as philadelphia pennsylvania frederick douglassemphasize the suppose it responsibilities that african-american men had to emancipate. and that rhetoric that rhetoric claims to allow them to have full citizenship including voting rights war propaganda argues the racial discrimination that all united states that soldiers would experience some form of discrimination. even so potentially the recruits were told to focus ending slavery while simultaneously proving that african-american man had for the white counterparts such as suffrage rights and the protection of refuting negative racial stereotypes all through military service. unfortunately for many northern african-american families with a dire situation that they experience in american society the removal of able-bodied african-american man had an ongoing economic crisis for the philadelphia families who were already suffering due to racial discrimination that impacted their lives on a daily basis. in some cases their financial wealth continued generations after the civil war ended

douglass was reelected. but lincoln's words have made such a deep impact, that even though he loses the election, he wins national attention and suddenly people are asking all across the country, who is this man from illinois? who bearded stephen a douglas in his own then. who is this man, lincoln? but it would not be lincoln they would hear from next. oh no. the next voice would come from our old friend, john brown. and that's where we will pick up in our next hour. from a museum perspective, we like to think of it as a two football fields of education and entertainment. so it's a great hook for us to get people appreciating and understanding a little bit more, the history of the great lakes. so, we are on the pilot house deck of the colonel james schoonmaker museum ship which is the national museum of the great lakes largest artifact at 618 feet long. the schoonmaker was a commercial freighter from when he was built in 1911 until then went to a long term layup in the early 19 eighties and then became a mus

by 1880, frederick douglass, the world famous frederick douglass is campaigning with logan, sharing the stump when they are giving political speeches together. and in 1884, douglas is supporting logan for the presidency of the united states . and he says the republican party is generally supportive of african-american rights, but he said, in a party of candidates for the republican ticket, most of them are invertebrate animals but general logan has a spine like the brooklyn bridge. so frederick douglass is a huge , fan of general logan and the new york times had several articles in 1884 with the title s, "negroes support general logan." then they have, general logan and then you grow vote: -- general logan and the negro vot e: early war hero and hero of the antislavery movement. even though it's not really true that he was the early mover of the antislavery movement, he is being linked with it. you can see where this complete so conversion has taken place , leading to that june 12 event i just talked about. when logan was still in -- before he even became a senator, finishing one of his

frederick douglass and martin luther king believed there was no way and they wouldn't have thought tochange, we had the constitution, liberty of all men, all races and all creeds. >> this interview we will see by a lot of people but your viral video is awesome, thank you for joining us. coming up we will show you how the left is even brainwashing the youngest of our kids, princeton and vanderbilt professor next. >> other than providing public funding for basic educat >> (providing public funding for basic education the other purpose of it was to effectuate the melting pot, to instill a sense of common identity, promote solidarity among students as americans but now the schools have taken the opposite mission of separating us, teaching unbridgeable differences, dividing us into different identities to be antagonistic. if that is the purpose of education, to separate us from each other, to drive us apart then why shouldn't we have a diverse school system? laura: william barr does ask the right questions, why send our tax dollars to schools that end up teaching our kids to hate each othe

black lives matter, they are no frederick douglass or martin luther king, jr. border and people pouring over from every corner of the swormd trying to escape their country and their cultures. this is a country worth defending. that's what this book is about. that's what this movement is about, that's what this show is about. see you next time on "life, liberty & levin." [♪♪♪] jesse: welcome to "watters' world." i'm jesse watters. the democrats' lost cause. that's the subject of tonight's "watters words." ronald reagan won texas by 30 points, and 40 years later trump won by single digits. trump beat biden

. >> i would cite the example of frederick douglass, the runaway slave who knew something about the realat appeared initially to be a denunciation of the fourth of july. he stood before the rochester ladies and said what to the slave is the fourth of july, are you inviting me to be here, but the trajectory of the speech as it moves along frederick douglas turns and says the constitution, the founding, they are not implicated in these crimes of slavery. douglas called the constitution the scaffolding like the scaffolding of the building which is taken down once the building is completed. douglas said it was a gloriously anti-slavery document. it is critical the spirit, people actually read who wants to do only one side of the story as if racism was baked into the american dna. there is the racist side of the story but they miss the emancipatory tradition represented by frederick douglass who was a lifelong republican, said the republican party is the ship and all else is the see. laura: the contrast between the way the media covered china's nationalistic pride at the way they cover patrio

. >> well, frederick douglass said that the constitution is a glorious liberty document. believe the same thing. and that, you know, frederick douglass and martin luther king believed we were systemically racist and there was no way that we could change, then i don't think that they would have fought as hard as they did to change. they knew we had something called the constitution, right? and it's for liberty of all men, right? and all races and all creeds. so --. >> laura: kory this interview is going to be seen by a lot of people but your viral video was awesome thank you so much for joining us. >>> coming up we're going to show you how the left is even brain washing the youngest of our kids. former princeton and vanderbilt professor carol swain is here next. and you need it here. and here. and here. which is why the scientific expertise that helps operating rooms stay clean is now helping the places you go every day too. seek a commitment to clean. look for the ecolab science certified seal. >> other than providing public funding for basic education, the other purpose