jacobs is perhaps the best remembered of enslaved women.he is so well remembered in part because she pens an extraordinary narrative, the book we come to know as "incidents in the life of a slave girl," published under the pen name linda brent. we saw that as a form of testimony, complicated testimony. filtered through jacobs's own concerns about her reputation as a free black woman when she publishes this narrative. filtered through anti-slavery politics. but we read, you will recall very carefully to discern the way that jacobs allows us to glimpse something of the persistence, the presence of sexual assault, the threat of sexual assault in slave women's lives. remember in her story, dr. flint, the pseudonym for the father of jacobs's owner, the way in which this man in his household in edenton, north carolina over the course of years, threatens, confronts, promises -- almost promises, right? to ultimately have access to jacobs's body, to have sexual relations with her. she lives under this threat. it is so present in her life, we know in

these are some of the decisions that enslaved african-americans faced. let's face it. freedom is great. it is what you want, but at what cost? do you leave behind your family? do you leave behind your friends? do you leave behind everything you know, or you do you wait for emancipation, which is fantastic. the only thing about emancipation, you have to understand when these millions of africans americans were freed, they were freed, but they had no home, no clothing, no food, no shelter, no jobs. it was just you are free, but i am free to do what? so do i go into the unknown with legal freedom, or do i take my life skills and make life happen for myself? it is hard to fully understand in 2014 these decisions, because it is just hard to have that conversation with yourself today. what would you do? and i don't like it when people ask me, well, what would you do, because i don't know. these are real-life decisions that had to be made, some of them within minutes, hours of, hey, this idea came up. why don't you come? i don't know if i could leave my family. i have a five-

affecting only those enslaved by state still in rebellion it's provisions were withheld. more than 3 million people were promised freedom to the proclamation. how to eliminate slavery throughout the country and for all time became the subject of debate. the adoption and ratification of a constitutional amendment however obvious it may appear to us today, was not a foregone conclusion. with the exception of the bill of rights, the constitution have been amended only twice. no new amendment had been ratified 1804 and many believed no for the revision was indicated. the political climate and public sentiment encourage support for an amendment as casualties mounted. northerners became convinced that the divisiveness caused by slavery's presence anywhere in the country was too great a cost to bear. swayed by the argument that emancipation was dealing solution tuber -- northern residents sent petitions to congress, calling for action. indicative of this effort was the women's national loyal league which under the leadership of elizabeth 80 stanton -- elizabeth cady stanton, col

what is the worst interpretation you've seen of enslaved life? and you don't have to name the player. -- place, you can keep that anonymous if you want. >> is your microphone on? >> i don't think it's on. >> yeah, it is. i took the other one off. i don't think there's a place that necessarily has -- i won't say that i've been some place where i've seen the worst. i can tell you what the worst would be. actually i do know a couple of places that have done the worst. but the worst to me is having uneducated interpreters. >> amen. >> you need to have people who know what they're talking about who understand the history and can deliver without bias. >> absolutely. >> to me the worst places are, for those who do first person, this does not include them. for those who do third person, the worst places are where you have one or two african-americans and they're the only ones that talk about slavery. especially if you're doing third person everybody on your staff should be able to give some part of your history. if you're not doing that, you're doing a d

michael as enslave a man made in the image of god for whom christ died." quoting constantine, leon x. the words, if not the deeds, of washington and jefferson and franklin. i will end with another quote if i could from that speech. he stated "honorable senators, and representatives, illustrious rulers of this great nation, i cannot refrain this day from invoking upon you in god's name the blessings of millions who were ready to perish but for whom a new and better life has been opened by your humanity justice, and patriotism. you have said let the constitution be so amended that slavery shall no longer exist in the united states. truly an act so sublime cannot escape divine notice, and doubtless the deed has been reported in the archives of heaven." concluding, "favored men and honored of god, speedily finish the work he has given you to do. emancipate, enfranchise, educate, and give the blessings of the gospel to every american." [applause] >> the newspaper reported that henry ward beecher was in the white house visiting with the president and appeared at

in fact what the confederate army does for a short while is enslave them. a violation of every known rule of war at the time. a throwback to the roman empire. if you add to this jubilorly's excursions twice where he hunts down blacks to bring them back to the south, the confederate army looks like a weird modern version of the roman empire going to hunt slaves in gall or among the germanic tribes, or, even more weirdly, it looks like a precursor of the nazis who spend their time hunting jews in the ukraine and russia rather than fighting the russian army just as the confederates are hunting blacks in pennsylvania and in maryland rather than perhaps fighting the united states army. the question of war crimes and the confession of henry wirz is not does he richly dethe serve to be hanged? i'm against capital punishment but i'm a 21st century person. i'm not a mid 19th century person. had i been a mid 19th cent rip person, i probably would not have been against capital punishment certainly for war criminals like wirz. if you believe in capital punishment, ther

suddenly when they arrive they begin to realize they are trapped. >> where do the women who are enslaveds continas come from? msnbc reversed the journey many of these women take. we traveled to honduras one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere. here much of the population lives in poverty. like many third wirld world countries honduras struggles with corruption and economic inequality leaving its citizens vulnerable to the lure of traffic irs. >> translator: this is a map of our country, honduras, and these points represent routes tracing the path of drugs and human beings through the country. >> julian hernandez leads a special police norris in the capital, their mission hshs to stop the steady flow of drugs and people moved by traffickers in route to the united states. >> translator: sexual exploitation is a widespread problem. women have become a global commodity, just like toyota cars and mcdonald's hamburgers snoor. >> hon durns officials are not surprised hundreds ends up enslaved in houston's cantinas. the u.s. department of justice says hon duran women account for 7

that the radical republicans intended to trade the vote of white men for the votes of the formerly enslaved. with all of this, southern democrats deprived both the illegitimate the end the unlawfulness of the 14th amendment as well as other of congress congressional pronouncements dating from the era. contemporaneous accounts of southern newspapers confirmed this perception. editorials lamented the radical republicans legislative policies would not stand for an hour if the supreme court dared assert its prerogative. as it turned out the newspaper was precedent in respect to this , the supreme court would never assert its prerogative. the decade between the emergence of radical reconstruction and the triumph of redemption and white supremacist rule under president pays -- president hayes was marked by legislation designed to protect the civil and political rights of formerly enslaved persons in the south. the 13th amendment ratified in late 1865, barred slavery and involuntary servitude from our shores. the amendment was quickly followed by the civil rights act of 1866 which declared in no u

civil courts, which were determined to have been hostile to enforcing the rights of the formerly enslaved with respect to these matters. congress faced testimony of friedman being divested of their hunting rifles and of people being ousted from their land. each of these measures was met with cascading scorn from southern democrats. it reached a boiling point in 1866. while section one granted citizen rights to millions of former slaves and forbade the state from infringing those rights. section three of the amendment simultaneously imposed unprecedented limitation on the citizenship of white southerners. the work of interpreting and challenging the amendment began with the amendment text. usually as a law professor we are custom to talking with folks who are familiar with the first amendment. -- the 14th amendment. i think it is the first page in the set of slides you have with you. section three of the amendment purported to disqualify any person who prior to the war had held an office of public trust and had taken an oath to uphold the constitution. for those persons who have either par

people, they're enslaving women in iraq.e have been hearing this. you've got a bill you want to introduce called end modern slavery, and you were dealing with this in the middle east. how bad of a problem is this? >> well, first of all, chuck, yes, they are enslaving people and in mosul, that's exactly what has happened. that's why as we go into mosul, we have got to understand there are a number of people there. this is going to be urban warfare. and we have got to get it right. and whether we do it in april or later, it has got to be done right. yes, we are taking on modern slavery. it wasn't intended to deal with it in this fashion. but there are 27 million people today, chuck, around the world, that are enslaved, earning in rug-making facilities, brick kilns, all kinds of sex trafficking, we have seen this on the rise around the world. and these are crimes of opportunity. average business people are making money by enslaving people. so, yes, this week i hope we'll launch a bill, i'm certain we're going to launch a bill t

got a call about a violent criminal who enslaved a young ukrainian woman and chicago. who was this menacing figure? nicole tinan's tormentor, alex campbell. the case snowballed after an alert cook county detective trained to look for signs of trafficking notified federal investigators. >> when i first met julia, she was a very scared young lady. >> julia reported her boyfriend had beaten and threatened her. >> he said many times that he would kill me and nothing would stop him. >> she feared for her life and she feared she could be killed by him and thought she would be killed by him for going to the police. >> vanhorn plugged julia's so-called boyfriend's name into the computer. >> before i started this case, i never even heard of alex campbell. once i put him in the system, i found an extensive criminal history. >> in 1986, campbell shot his way into a house, then held two women captive in a tense standoff with chicago police. convicted of attempted murder, home invasion and kidnapping, campbell served ten years. after his release, he was arrested, again, for selling

this was a propaganda piece to further disenfranchise a group of evil that were already enslaved in this country. we need to look at it for what it is. >> thank you for the call. we have a chance for the guests to respond. appreciated. hari jones. >> the film is a blockbuster film. it is certainly propaganda. a lot of the history that is written dunning's school, wilson at princeton, dunning at columbia the kind of history they are producing his propaganda. this is the real problem, the propaganda of the history. in the case of william monroe trotter and w.e.b. dubois, one of the reasons they responded to the film is because they actually endorsed wilson in the 1912 election, even though his book had been published. they still endorsed him. this was a real embarrassment to them as well, especially trotter. it is an embarrassment. wilson is our guy. we supported him in the 1912 election. he is clearly a racist. >> we will go to ann in dallas texas. >> thank you so much for putting me on. i -- i'm one of those blacks that grew up in the integrated midwest. when i moved to the south to go t

we do have evidence that governor morehead did enslave people. that is in census records and documentation we have today. we simply don't have a lot of information today because the records just were not retained. we have researchers who are currently investigating this, and i'm hoping we will be able to find more information on the people that were working here and living here, but we don't right now. what we do know is that many of the enslaved people were working on a cash plantation, cash crop plantation about 40 miles north of here in rockingham county where they did grow cotton, and he also had sheep, which were unusual in the south, to provide wool. we found that the number of people enslaved by governor morehead was a little lower than the average for someone of his wealth. we think that was likely the influence of his quicker wife -- quaker wife eliza lindsay. she was probably not comfortable with the idea of slavery and probably influenced him and not investing as much in slavery as his pure group probably would have. ♪ as the civil war

in occupied poland, a nazi governor named hans frank declared that poles would forever be enslaved by the third reek but auschtwitz went far beyond the poles because the german authorities bought -- brought in people from throughout europe. who were the people that came? they were teachers. they were politicians. they were professors. they were artists and even catholic priests. they were executed or they were executed or barely survived. these are the stories of heroism that arice from the horrors. many poles risked their lives to save jews. i'm reminded of the story of arraign sendler a. young social worker in warsaw. she smuggled 200 jewish children out of the get owe and into a safe house. the gestapo arrested her in 1943. they first tortured her and then condemned to death. ian carski who went on to be a leader of solidarity and of the founding of the new polish democratic government worked for the polish government. spread the allies and in working he visited the warsaw get owe. and he did much to liberate people. but you know this is not a story of numbers or statistics or nami

the life of pioneering journalist ethel payne, the first lady of the black press; and, a tale of enslavement, rebellion, and repatriation, in murals. >> woodruff: following yesterday's discovery of three men in the united states attempting to join the islamic state, the world learned today the identity of "jihadi john" one of the extremist group's most infamous members. >> i'm back, obama and i'm back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards islamic state. >> woodruff: the british voice behind the mask has repeatedly threatened the u.s., britain and their allies, in videos showing hostages being brutally murdered. >> woodruff: today, it was widely reported that british and u.s. intelligence have identified the man as mohammed emwazi. born in kuwait, he grew up in a predominantly muslim neighborhood in west london. and graduated with a degree in computer programming from the university of westminster. in 2009, emwazi traveled to tanzania, on what he said was a safari. he told a muslim advocacy group that british intelligence accused him of trying to reach the "al-shabaab" terror group

this was this country going to war against those who enslaved those because it was wrong.pride about that part of our history instead of listen to this -- this perpetual guilt machine? >> of course, we should. but when the perpetual guilt machine occupies the white house and is on a campaign to despirit americans, it does to some extent. he's constantly suggesting to people that they're not special. we have no particular place in history from which to act. he could easily, of course, he could couch this in these terms. we know better than any people, the effort it takes to rid yourself of separating one group from another and we must lead again. and if that means going to take people to task in another nation, we have to do it. but he doesn't feel that way. he has such a chip on his shoulder that he literally can't allow that america may have a chosen place in history that we may be good people. because i think he may think we're bad people. lou: well, he has some issues here. but they shouldn't have to be national issues. and i find his remarks about paris to be particula

beginning with works of alter from enslaved african americans it includes the harlem renaissance. >> we have art from the 40s and 50s and 60s, black artist explod abstract alter. all the artwork comes from the museum's permanent collection. this piece is henry tanner's it shows the commitment that the city had of supporting african accident. the collection is a small part of a larger catalogue which includes four major essays that touch on a variety of different thinks. i hope people see the broad spectrum of african-american production. the legacy is deep in the city and deep in this institution. you know the art museum is one of philly's most historic venues. head to the uptown theater that's been part of the culture since 1929 when it opened its doors. lisa thomas-laurey caught up with the author of a new book that shares the experience of the up town. >> reporter: the uptown is closed, but plans are underway, and remnant of its past glory are still there. joyrides stars and stories of philly's famous uptown theater is owed to kimberly roberts formative years in philadelphia. the

we all know that isis believe in sexual enslavement. and unfortunately they just derive that from verses in quran. this is so sad. our people, our civilians, they are successful people. the christians of syria are equivalent what we call here in the united states small business, they go to church they spend time with their families, they are not politically activist. and they have no support now. they are fighting isis alone only kurds and peshmerga are fighting standing on the front lines helping them defeating isis. but it's still not enough because they are not receiving direct support yet. so it's really hard for them. and isis are really powerful. >> yes. you mentioned the kurds and peshmerga. we know many of those groups have reached out to the u.s. to ask for help different levels of assistance. what more do you think that the u.s. could be doing to help these people that seem to have no shields no protection there? >> yes. yes. now thousands of those christians fled their villages, their own -- they left behind everything, their

in terms of universal education as one of the historians talks about or the transition from being enslavedeing holding elected office. that's pretty much a miracle. and to have this birth of a nation that was produced some 40, 50 years after in danchte incarnation to rewrite that narrative and somehow create this black demon as opposed to thinking about the ways in which we created this country together. >> here is the last clip. how long was your documentary? thomas allen harris: 92 minutes. brian lamb: here is one minute. thomas allen harris: my face reflected in their faces. our gaze meeting across time. giving me the power to use my camera lens together with my community to create an homage of an enduring legacy of self affirmation and self invention. >> we have a responsibility in our image making capacity, which is where we share the wealth of who we are. we have the responsibility to whiten the path to open up all of those possibilities to what blackness can be. now. brian lamb: who is the woman talking just at the end there? thomas allen harris: kerry weems, a wonderful artist. bri

anybody who is not islamic in their understanding is to be either enslaved or eradicated.s a genocidal movement. you kill christians you kill jews yazidis but you may in certain circumstances enslave them. that's what we're up against. and we have an administration that will not admit that there's a religious basis underlying what's going on. >> you mentioned naziism. i want to play a bite from early today. walid farris said this on that point. >> this is genocide l in nature. they are threatening to kill more and more of these in libya and possibly inside egyptian. we're seeing a kind of jihadi genocidal action like we've never seen before. >> charles is right and that gentleman is quite right. ronald reagan thought the ethos of the 1970s involvement semantic disarmament. that we were no longer able to talk crisply about what was going on. so he remoralized the cold war by saying it was an evil empire and the focus of evil in the modern world. people were horrified but he did it deliberately in order to say clarity matters here. >> charles, what about -- you talked about

in the book we get to know central asian peasants and indian weavers merchants in liverpool and enslaved workers in the american south demand to consumers in west africa chinese industrialists, groups of people you usually do not find mentioned in the same book or not even the same section of the library. "empire of cotton" does this globally in scope but it combines discussions of local developments with a very global perspective. a great danger of writing a global history is that it describes the world is a network of globally connected actors the words in which local or national distributions of power or local interest in some ways or ends -- inconsequential because it focuses just on the oval. i'm arguing very much against such a perspective. instead i argue that global cannot be understood without the local and the local not without the global. for that reason the book describes the global word of cotton from shifting perspectives. sometimes from the perspective of an ant, sometimes from the perspective of somebody flying in a helicopter and sometimes that from the perspective of a

teresa says one night changed the course of her enslavement.t was on that night when she was called outside by a group of drunk boys who were friends of daniel. >> they grabbed me and shoved me in the car. at that moment, you know, i found my inner self, my real self came through. i'm like i got to get out of here. i don't care. get me out of here. and that was the wrong reaction to have and was smacked across the face, was, you know, some kind of liquid was being shoved in my mouth. >> terrified, teresa says instead of daniel's basement, the boys drove her to a shabby motel somewhere in detroit. >> and it was just one of those cheap, nasty, disgusting hotel rooms. the room was so packed full of guys you could hardly see. >> teresa says that night was the worst of her life. >> and it was, you know, one after the other after the other. >> she says over 20 men proceeded to gang rape and beat her until she finally passed out. >> when i woke up, you know, i was just there naked and bloody and i had to throw up and i ran into the bathroom and i fell

he decided to enslave the peasantry across 16 of the year. it was a bloody horrific episode. it led to famine. five to 7 million people dying and the loss of tens of millions of livestock the wealth of the country could in some ways the soviet union never really recovered from this episode and in some ways it's the central crime of stalin's rule of collectivization. sometimes you watch a movie and there is a murder in the movie but it's offscreen it's off camera. maybe you hear a gunshot, maybe you don't. maybe there are shadows and maybe there is blood splattering on a window or something like this. this was the effect that i tried for in the book. the actual episode of collectivization is not there but the decision to go forward into a despair. along with that decision in 1928 where the book culminates there is stalin's malevolently torturing psychologically torturing some of his closest associates including those who he is treated like a brother like the younger brother he never had. so you begin to say a malevolence of gratuitous malevolence of making people suffer psycho

the egyptians enslaved the jews, the romans enslaved the christians. slavery is almost a human natural act, is it not? and lincoln would say following obama's argument don't get on your high horse. this is not an existential threat. obama said the other day the genocide in the middle east. and lincoln might say, why in the world would i send hundreds and thousands of men to their death to end slavery? this what obama is saying and doing is the lowest of the low now. he really is not a leader of a great people. he's not a leader of a great nation. he is stuck in his own ideology. he's stubborn and ignorant at the same time. there are black christians and black muslims in africa who are being slaughtered. they don't want to hear about the jim crow laws. there are christians, other muslims being slaughtered in the middle east, they don't need a lecture from obama about christianity. the fact of the matter is obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time. >> why would the president build this strawman argument though and

it from your book because the dehumanization and the animal location of the place of the former enslavedhumans is really something that you get a quite eloquent -- and this this isn't a chapter the first in indicators, freedom and dishonor if you would like to read along. >> on january 2 1893 frederick douglass rose to deliver a speech dedicating the haitian pavilion at the chicago world fair. douglas was involved in planning the pavilion. he took the opportunity of his speech to navigate the common stereotype who devoted their time to voodoo and child sacrifice. but even more significant is douglass used the speech to reflect back on the past century of the emancipation. douglas after all was more and he had won international fame to his writing and oratory in the service of black emancipation as the most prominent black spokesman of the new world he had no difficulty in identifying one of the central events in the history of emancipation and he writes we should not forget, or he speaks we should not forget that the freedom you and i enjoy today, but the freedom that the freedom that 80

well, i'm going to find out whether l'enfant's grave holds the bones of an enslaved african american. thank you very much. [applause] >> we do have time for a couple of questions. we are going to do the still donahue style. raise your hand and i will come around to you with the microphone. >> if l'enfant quit in the commissioners are still there, whose plan is washington built around? >> l'enfant's plan was laid out in the 1790's, the big streets. not to be able to march armies to control the people. people say did's l'enfant design washington after paris? the question is whether paris was designed after l'enfant's plan. the paris we know was not designed until the 1850's. the streets and circles, that was all on the ground, put no money was appropriated to do anything with the public squares for public things other than minimal. when the a.i.a. this going, i'm sorry, when the republican party started appropriating money to build washington all the great photo journal magazine in the united states in the 1870's started publishing these fabulous photographic essays about the new washin

others enslaved. lands must be taken, a caliphate established where. they must move to the land of the caliph. the army and infyiyinfydels will be drawn to the battlefields where there will be a bloody war and the end of the world will be initiated. this will happen. this must happen. the army of the islamic state hopes to be a part of it, an integ integral part. graham wood, author of the article in "the atlantic." he lays out what isis wants and how they plan to get and gives thought to what might work to stop it and what tactics would certainly make it more powerful. he writes, much of what the group does looks nonsensical expect in the light of a sincere, carefully considered commitment to returning civilization to a seventh century legal environment. and ultimately, bringing about the apocalypse. graham wood has sat face-to-face with isis recruiters and supporters. for this article he spoke to professors and scholars from islam, from around the world, to find out exactly how this group is linked to religion. he lived and wrote in the middle east f

the taxes that were put on african-american labor during enslavement. it's the red-lining period when we effectively erected a white middle class in this country and declined to do the same thing with black people and left them out. for unscrupulous lenders. i think the criminal justice policy in the country which sees african-american men as some part of the american population. yet 8% of the enslaved population. we have government policies that divide us. i don't thing it's the ones that mr. steele is talking about though. >> what's the answer to that? >> the answer to that is -- one is, can be tempted into air fwans -- arrogance there. but i think the answer, i think, for the most part, is again, this idea that -- that -- this fact, really, that we have become more department as a result of the efforts on the part of white america to do well by us, to do the good, to be help helpful, and to make up for the shame of the past. and that -- that sort of -- thinking, i think, is what's caused us to -- >> if affirmative action is not the answer how do you