and the essential part that frederick douglass played in that movement. and so here you have a former enslaved african-american frederick douglass. who? has become through the publication of his narrative and through his public speaking has become a well-known figure for the abolitionist movement to establish that enslaved peoples in the united states were able to promote their own freedom to argue for it and most significantly for this document to situate that desire for freedom within the traditions and the ideals of the united states itself. now students may not remember that douglas is giving this speech in rochester new york where he was invited to give a fourth of july a dress by local abolitionists and so in this regard students can think about the audience of douglas's speech and so it's clear that douglas is speaking to a white audience who is celebrating the fourth of july and he is situating that fourth of july within his point of view and from his point of view. the fourth of july is something radically different than it is for that audience.

we get that frederick douglass ran away from slavery. william still was the youngest of 18 children. his parents had escaped from slavery on the eastern shore of maryland. his his father, levin, still was able to purchase his freedom. and his mother, we see here chities still. originally sydney was unable to purchase her freedom and ran away. thfirst time she ran away, bringing their four small children and joining her husband in south jersey. she was very quickly recaptured by slave catchers and then when she fled a second time, she made the heartbreaking choice to leave two of those children behind. now tell us something of still's father. so, levon was, you know, he had worked for years to purchase his own freedom. and once he was able to purchase his freedom and once his wife and the two daughters joined them, he moved the family to rural south jersey, burlington county. and he you know, his goal was to become an independent farmer. he sort of set up his family in a remote place where he hoped that slave catchers wouldn't catch up to

we get that frederick douglass ran away from slavery. william still was the youngest of 18 children. his parents had escaped from slavery on the eastern shore of maryland. his his father, levin, still was able to purchase his freedom. and his mother, we see here charities still. originally sydney was unable to purchase her freedom and ran away. the first time she ran away, bringing their four small children and joining her husband in south jersey. she was very quickly recaptured by slave catchers and then when she fled a second time, she made the heartbreaking choice to leave two of those children behind. now tell us something of still's father. so, levon was, you know, he had worked for years to purchase his own freedom. and once he was able to purchase his freedom and once his wife and the two daughters joined them, he moved the family to rural south jersey, burlington county. and he you know, his goal was to become an independent farmer. he sort of set up his family in a remote place where he hoped that slave catchers wouldn't catch u

so, isaacjulien, why did you choose frederick douglass as a subject?e male figures and historical ones, rather than focusing more on contemporary issues orfemale protagonists? well, i think, in a way, with frederick douglass, i was very drawn to the fact that he was someone who had been an abolitionist, that he lived for at least over two years in scotland — at the time that he wrote his book, his autobiography in terms of being a slave — to escape being re—enslaved. and i was just very, in a way, kind of moved by his story and his biography, and also the way in which he was able to utilise the english language in such an incredible manner and his sense of oratory. but i think, also, there's a way in which with douglass... i mean, i didn't know that he was the most photographed man of the 19th century, more so than lincoln, that he had a whole philosophy about photography, his aesthetic theory about photography, photography as an emancipatory tool, along with all of his different theories around the idea of picture—making, that picture—making, both in

frederick douglass returned to the white house in august of 1864. as many of you know, lincoln was renominated for the republican nomination for president in the summer of 1864. but the of 1864 was a very bad time for the war effort. and by august, lincoln was convinced that he would lose in his bid for reelection. and so lincoln douglass to come to the white house to meet with him. remember the first time douglass just showed up? this time, lincoln invites him and the two men sit down together and they talk politics for a few minutes. and then lincoln turns to douglass and. he says, douglass, i hate slavery as as you do, and i want to see it abolished altogether. the problem is, lincoln explained, was that the slaves were not running in as great of numbers as lincoln had hoped. in other words, the emancipation proclamation wasn't as effective as lincoln had it might be. and responded by saying, well, the slave owners, they don't tell the slaves about it so they they don't know to run away. and the two men then sat down and concocted a plan where to

my hometown of frederick is quite honor for me. only took me about 12 years to get him to come here. he come to maryland a lot, said brad. you got to come to, frederick. you've got a lot of fans, a lot of friends there. and i think tonight you've shown us that is absolutely, unequivocally true. i was on decoded for two seasons with brad, 23 episodes and the first question people ask me is, what was it like to be on a show with brad meltzer and what is brad meltzer like? i got a real quick story about what like to be on a show with brad meltzer. we were up in northern california investigating this place called the bohemian grove. and it's this weird place where people do weird things. and we were trying to sneak in and see the heck was going on in there, that kind of thing. we had this guy named alex jones, us, who they stuck in my kayak because i had water experience and anyway, finally figure we're going to get in there by air or sea and it turned out to be by sea and as you remember, if you saw that episode we actually snuck onto

this is dw, use my from the that i think the energy migrant frederick could tactic turkeys may know position thinks will when, if all boats and sundays bundles, the campaign issue is already making like out of, for the millions of syrians in turkey. they talk to some of those refugees. at least 2 people die and strikes on a hospital in ukraine. others kind of narrow escapes? yeah, well actually from the pool. i was in the kitchen with my husband when we heard a loud explosion that people still don't know i was throwing and what was the rules? the price president calls the latest version of tax on his country, a crime against humanity. and so the a sense troops to its border with kosovo off the clash is around the race began off the cost of the police and for the installation of you if they go by the and miss the i paid for the will and welcome toki has reached the final stretch of its presidential rates. so these run off it's incumbent president bunch of times i've had one against opposition, challenges to mike at least thought or crowds turned doubtful. one of the presidents, final election

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wayne frederick as he prepares to depart his post in september of this year. dr.rick, the near and long-term outlook for howard university has never been brighter, things to your leadership of our alma mater over the last nine years. it has been a privilege and a pleasure, working alongside you for the betterment of howard university. on a personal note, i will miss your daily presence on campus and no doubt will the university. while we are eager to welcome dr. vincent, please know you have left a legacy that cannot be duplicated. [applause] >> thank you for your service to howard university. to the members of the class of 1973, congratulations on your golden reunion. it is a pleasure to count myself among such illustrious people. to the members of the class of 2023, no that your long walk, the one you have had from matriculation to graduation has been unlike any other in the history of our university. and as you near its completion, i commence you once more. congratulations and godspeed. [applause] >> good morning, president joe biden, president frederick, disti

i saw frederick douglass. i asked the librarian could i look, is it really frederick douglass? she said, yes. i guess because i was the new library and said, yes, hon. i didn't think about that later. i pulled out a random box and a random file, and it was in his own hand about the assassination of abraham lincoln. my family in springfield, my relatives are buried in oak ridge. so i grew up with that. you could see the emotion because he wrote, he was killed, assassinated, murdered. it was coming through the ink the way he was doing that. for me, that was like one of those serendipitous, pinch me moments. i did not know how serendipitous it was until later when i wanted to photocopy and use it for something and i had written down the file box and the file folder numbers, and i asked for it and librarian came up later and was looking a little sheepish. i said, what is going on? she said, well, that file was misfiled. it was supposed to be put back into a different box. so that is the kind of thing that serendipity is finding connections. so we are digitizing a lot of that unique

i let up a slide and benefit of frederick douglass. uptight and why the spring of 1860 4a woman named caroline johnson came to the white house. she spent some time working as a nurse. he was renowned as an artist. she wanted to make a gift to lincoln to thank them for what he had done on emancipation. she had beautiful >> fruit display. the cost or whether $50 to make. he had a retail value of $350. she got introduction to the white house. if the public parts of the white house and the ground floor has second-story office. to present this gift to lincoln in the white house library. i have space in the washington ulmonument. as a private space for the first family. ekeep liquid take a nap if you need one during the day or early in the morning he might wake up and go to the library. they played with her friends in this room. this was a private living space of the president. this is the first time that an african-american was welcomed into the first family april 2, 1864 johnson and her minister show up at the white house with 8% this gift

frederick douglass returned the white house in august of 1864. as many of you don't lincoln was renominated for the republican nomination up residence in the summer of 1864, the summer of 1854 was a very bad time for the union more effort by august, licking was convinced that he was in the bid for reelection this out lincoln summoned their goal is to come to the white house to meet him and remember the first time douglas gestured up in the time lincoln invite him straight in the two men sit down together and they talk politics for a few minutes, then lincoln turns to douglas and he said, douglas, they slavery is much as you like to see it abolished altogether and the problem is lincoln explained it, was that slaves were not running away in his greatest numbers is lincoln have hoped in another words emancipation population was not as effective lincoln had out there that might be douglas responded by saying, will the slaveowners go to the slaves about us so we do not know to run away in two men then sat down together and concocted a plan what he wa

the ceremony starts with university president wayne frederick talking about president biden's career. this is about half an hour. >> reputation and outstanding service of 30 years as a democratic senator from delaware. beginning at the tender age of 29. on the senate judiciary committee for 16 years, as both chairman and a ranking member, you have been lauded for writing and leading the legislative effort resulting in the passage of the landmark vie against women act, which provides unprecedented resources for assault survivors and has led to a critical conversation on domestic and sexual crimes across our country. your concern for your fellow citizens, their health, education, opportunity, environment and total welfare as the 47th vice president of the obama administration and now the leader of the free world is marked by the same tenacity and stellar success you have demonstrated throughout your legislative career and life. making good on another of your campaign promises in achieving what your predecessors coul not, you signed into law the historic $1 trillion dollar bipartisan inf

so i think he'll visit as one of his philosopher friends sends that book to frederick the great and frederickhe great starts to write to shetterly about the fact he translated it, that he it was not really what he wanted, that there was so well spread. but then he was like, well, thank you anyway, do that. so he is of course, very inspired by that. and then going into details that i will not go on too much but called informations that he saw in the column, meaning specific ways of columns to march and to perform their battles and qataris really analyzing them and then in his reports on how to reform the french army once adopt them to make the french army faster than they were before and more deadly actually to have more direct attacks than they had before. so, yes, lots of overlap, but there. have. hello, quick question. continuing the theme of archive preserve fashion. as someone who grew up now lives in rather humid, muggy city, how are the even still preserved today to to page through hmm so that's a nice because it's always fun to tell that that whole that the whole archive has been very

karen bass ands i wrote the frederick douglass prevention act. we worked with the great, great, great grandson of frederick douglass and put a big emphasis on some of the prevention pieces like making sure that our children are situationally aware k-12 as to what it looks like, what toe, be on the guard for. if you see a friend who may be be enticed with drugs or something, that you immediately get to that principle or your teacher and trained in as well and hhs and ten offices and others all have very good curricula on how to come and i would hope in when hearing this hearing in the school would look to say, let's have an antihuman trafficking couple of days and really bring in someone who is a survivor who can really spend e some time with these young people, the students, and that will make a difference as well. i do believe this is a pivotal time to be focusing on human trafficking as u.s. faces crisis at our southern border. as result of countless victims especially women and children being exploited. while traffickers to get any of the chao

thank you president frederick for the invitation and your leadership of your alma mater. serena, student body president, -- [applause] just remember. when you are president of the united states and they say joe biden is in the waiting room to say hello, promise me you will not say njoku? jo --e who? [laughter] you all think i'm kidding. thank you for having me into the parents and family, the class of 23, congratulations. we will get to giving you your degrees by the way. i promise that is coming. you are here through the heart ache, blood sweat and tears of everything that has come before, and everything at the come. you are here is a new moment of hope and possibility. before i begin as mentioned many times tomorrow is mother's day. stand for your mothers and grandmothers. stand and thank them. [applause] where i come from mom's role. --rule. [applause] to my friends congressman jim clyburn, the thing i admire most about you is your absolute integrity. in everything you do. this is a man of honor. i attended south carolina state university's commencement here 60 years a

and then you have um, a husband, robert kagan and his brother, frederick frederick. and then you have, is this woman kimberly keegan was victoria newland, sister in law, who runs this organization institute for the study award. that the media trade a somehow additional interest, a dispassionate academic body, which always says how well ukraine is doing, how badly rupture is doing it by unable to do that it's, it's interesting, but you brought it up towards because of the same confidence that she attended them remotely, if you talked about how you frame is basically going you to be the beacon of democracy for the entire world and you know it and, and to bring it in. and again, i'm paraphrasing here, bringing peace and stability back to europe. but the problem is, is people like newland and the organization, as we all know, as nato is the display, these are the destabilizing forces in europe. yeah. that, yeah, absolutely. and that's what they've been trying to do. and of course, the europeans, hapless europeans. they've simply gone along with this stability. if this is

dunbar as well within the african-american community, had relationships with frederick douglass, who was a key. statesman of the 19th century, and he was of the premier figures, african-american political progress. also had a relationship with booker t washington, who was, i would say, foremost in the minds of many at that time, talking about how education particularly vocational education was a centerpiece for african-american pursuit of political opportunities and social opportunities. so dunbar and i think that was quite fascinating, was able to reach out to all of these esteemed figures in the american public sphere and. he was able to build relationships with them. and so these so you can imagine someone in his twenties who descended slaves, but he's a gifted writer who has on speed dial. if i can impose that kind of idea with some of the great of his time, ranging from a president of the united states to one of the premier or raiders of his time. well, that's that's what surprised me that here he is, young struggling artist able to not only make these connections speed dial but

you helped us last year when we did the frederick douglass act. want to thank you for the input you provided, it is extraordinary. without our survivors and survivor informed, trauma informed, we wouldn't know where to go. thank you. ms. murray. >> good morning. thank you for the honor and privilege of sitting before you today. i represent the global community of ngos working to fight trafficking abroad. i am the ceo and founder of one by one. and international ngo that is u.s. headquartered, as you can tell by my national sounding accent. one by one was founded a decade ago, i went on a trip to sierra leone, i was a student. on the trip i met a little girl who was living on the streets. i noticed she had no shoes. with less than a dollar, i bought her a pair of flip-flops. she asked if she should wait in my bedroom. she had been so abused by men and women, that she presumed that i deserved her body. that moment changed my life, i decided i would give my whole life to this. even if it is only one child. no child should go through that. the event l

frederick's silver and gold paternal residence known as hamlet's castle extremely interesting rare monument. we have three in our collection. and this one is the most beautiful, and if on other monuments these are fantasy palaces, then here the kronborg palace is absolutely depicted. here is the king after the tragedy that turned into the thirty years' war. the treasury is a wasteland, it needs to be replenished, and the russian tsar. after the turmoil, he needs status things. so in arkhangelsk , a mutually beneficial purchase of wine vessels and goblets presented once to the danish king is made. it is known that in the cargo has arrived in arkhangelsk. and from some germans. well, they could be germans, yes, foreigners who do not speak russian, and uh, this purchase took place at the direction of tsar mikhail fedorovich from them today, when colonial conquests cause a lot of controversy. this is not only a collection of masterpieces by the best german masters of that time, but also an important part of world geopolitics. is it overwhelming? eh, in russia this is a favorable person. this is

well, here are robert and frederick frederick - in particular, it was not a little, a consultant to theis the pestrio that he left this post, but fredrik is still his adviser to this day. what does this mean that these people continue their activities, that they are going to throw everything. that's what a family contract is, because that's with reduction assistance. well, kogan writes such an article. in her republic 2014 titled nothing less, the superpowers are not retiring, and they are calling together for a more aggressive foreign policy. but that is, it turns out the wife, it looks like a psychopath. but there is also another purely commercial interest, of course, if possible, literally another short font to go to the commercial interest. e about father gagarin the fact is that there in america there is a publication called the and ukraine yes, this publication is purely for ukraine , which already at the beginning of the last century wrote it there and created this publication. lev dobryansky, the most famous russophobe, he was e , as it were, also a professor corresponding there

vykhodtsev from it, the scientist alexander pakhmutova, but beketovka is also known for the fact that frederick was interrogated there for the first time after his captures, and beketov is also known for the fact that she never set foot there. imagine a soldier, stalingrad is one of the seven districts, and in this area the germans did not enter the apartment after taking steel. i think it's a big share. the fact that this did not happen, that the germans did not go into beketovka. yes, just on the fate of the lives of those guys who laid down their lives there, and the brigade itself, after all, in march. 43 years later, a month after the end of the battle of stalingrad, it was disbanded was disbanded, because almost all the soldiers of the 93rd rifle brigade died in an amazing way .

we've got the problem from prince frederick from denmark and his wife, princess mary, the king of spain. we've got kings and queens from thailand, futon and told him that we thought the sultan of brendan britain. i mean, it really is a gathering of royalty from around the world. and. and alex, this is with a lot of politicians. obviously the person is prime minister. she soon act will be that, but as he said about 100 heads of state from, from around the world, including the chinese vice president hines yang. and it was a little bit of control to see about that and give him that he played a prominent role and in the anti democracy crept down in hong kong. but i mean, the really all important people from around the world gathering in london stay for this current nation. and i think that's important, isn't that and, and to me, um, i think you must agree of course with this because it, it, the point is to try to show that it's not. this is just no small button. this is pushed in on a global scale. this is person inviting or throwing open the doors to heads of state, to politicians across t

director of policy at the heritage foundation former facebook employee cara frederick joins us now., montana is saying if tiktok with turn off some of the privacy filters it would be o okay. but they don't do that. they don't allow that his other apps do, right? >> in norwell they. tiktok leaves in its wake a litany broken promises but they seek engineers can access the data of americans they say tiktok was never used for surveillance purposes. it was attempted to use to try to detect the physical locations of american journalists. you have now a bright dance executive. remember it's a parent company of tiktok. he is coming out and saying the chinese communist party has supreme access to america data including data on servers in the united states. they think tiktok says at this point should be taken with a massive grain of salt. think montana is in the right here. jon: there what 30, 33 states and of already banned from government devices if you have got a state own phone in colorado for instance you cannot use tiktok. but, how do you ban it on private phones? >> us a great first mo

frederick douglass had done exactly that. he got on a train in baltimore disguised as a sailor, went to the north. and so they go all night. they go through baltimore at about four in the morning and this was the most dangerous place, not only because there's so much anti lincoln feeling in baltimore, maryland, a slave state. and one of the arguments of my book is our capital is in a terrible location. and the founders made a big mistake. it should have been somewhere like philadelphia or or maybe harvard to grace maryland. i thought that would be a good spot. right on chesapeake bay. some southerners are similar, but washington's too far south. it's too dangerous and it's very unhealthy city to because of toxic water. in six. so but baltimore's also very because he's got to get out of a train or that the cars are from the engines and pulled by horses very through the streets of baltimore until they can connect to another locomotive about a mile away. so as the car is being pulled at the speed of a horse, that's when he was m

she was created by a german master for the prussian king frederick, he gave it to peter the first , theyed a room only under empress elizabeth, and under catherine, they added luxurious amber mosaics and installed it in the large catherine’s palace in tsarskoye selo during the great patriotic war, the nazis took the room in an unknown direction. and here in the eighties, long-term painstaking work began on the restoration of the preserved drawings and photo images from kaliningrad amber, using ancient technologies, attracted art historians, chemists, criminalists, historians, restorers , and completed the 300th anniversary of st. petersburg , this was such a day in history. normally we will send other coordinates. ah, let's go. bullfinch magata will strengthen control at the zaporozhye nuclear power plant what statements were made in the un security council how to prevent a nuclear catastrophe the accumulation of militants was destroyed by russian artillerymen, delivered a successful strike on the enemy with hail systems? who and how will help the defenders of the fatherland throughout t

it has won several major awards, including the frederick douglass book prize, the ralph waldo emerson award, the national book award, and most recently, the candle history prize out of canada. professor miles, congratulations. and we appreciate your time today. thanks so much, peter. and you're watching about books, a program and podcasts produced by c-span booktv. next, we want to look at some reviews of some recently published books. the washington post's book world, which publishes on sundays, looks at novelist paul auster's bloodbath nation. now, this is a nonfiction book that looks at gun violence in the us and is described by reviewer alex kotlowitz as a, quote, sobering, impassioned plea to end the cycle of shootings. restrict the availability of guns. and as auster writes, conduct an honest, gut wrenching examination of who we are and who we want to be as a people. the national review magazine regularly reviews books and it says that timothy sandford's freedom's furies how isabel patterson rose wilder lane and ayn rand found liberty in an age of darkness, delves deeply into th

that this was eventually brought to the us travel visa from our keep the tie copies spots with the frederick case he sees it gets on the way next about that is is already talked to take a professional career. the major leagues just ultimate goal, the whole path back, which is 0, the color that it says al jazeera, and these are the headlines. russia says attacks on belgrade, continued any early l, as of wednesday. it says numerous drones enter the territory, but most were shot down most go on a said its forces killed $75.00 to 0 to engine from ukraine. the us denies reports that it supplied on 2 criminal groups with 3 equipment. let me say a few things about number one. we've seen some of the reports circulating on social media and elsewhere, making claims that us supplied weapons were using these attacks. i will say that we're skeptical at this time of the veracity of these reports as a more general principle, as we said. and i believe i said yesterday, we do not encourage or enable strikes inside of russia. and we've made that clear um, but as we've also said, it is up to ukraine to decide

i think the last time he came to howard, with president frederick and others, was in my final year of vice president. you are leading the way, through the science, doctors, advocates who will do big things like ending cancer as we know it and curing some cancer which we are on our way of doing. diplomats and global citizens making democracy work for people around the world, lawyers defending our rights, artists shaping our culture, fear list journalist. this is real. this is what you're doing. fearless journalists and intellectuals pursuing the truth, challenging convention. you are the leaders of tomorrow and it is coming on you really quickly. because of you, i see a future we can finally move away from the narrative and crammed view of the promise of america as a zero-sum game. as you succeed i fail, you get a head i fall behind, and maybe worst of all, if i can't hold you down, i can't lift myself up. instead of what it should be, if you do well we all do well. that is what i see. that is what i see for americans , the future possibilities for all americans. look, no matter the fu