he invites frederick douglass representative of black america to come to the white house and among other things, asked douglass to become the leader after effort in cooperation with the union army and the war department to funnel as many slaves as possible out of the border states, out of the upper south behind union lines and into the north if possible. a grandiose plan that god knows how this would ever work but to get as many slaves out of the upper south as possible before election day in november because if he loses the election, he fears that mcclellan and the democrats will turn around the policy of emancipation and the war will be lost. douglas was stunned. i don't know another way to put it. here was abraham lincoln. he had attacked lincoln for the past two and a half years, three years. here was lincoln looking eye to eye with him and said will you funnel as many slaves out of the south as possible, be a new sort of john brown for me? douglass said sure. thank you very much. he went back up north. he sent telegrams, letters all across the north. he was trying to put together a

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

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

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

lecture, about 30 white men rushed onto the stage, started to tear down the platform and beat up frederick douglass and william white, and they were both badly beaten up. one of douglass hands was broken, and douglass said for years afterwards he said that william white saved his life that day. a man who had a big stick was standing over douglass and was about to hit him over the head and may well have killed him and william white stopped it from happening. they do get away. they're not murdered that day in pendleton, indiana, and douglass felt grateful to white for the rest of his life. william white is one of those unsung heroes of the abolitionist movement. there are hundreds of people that we don't know very much about who nonetheless took an active part in the movement and white is one of them. douglass said later, i shall never forget we were like two brothers. we were ready to dare to do and even die for each other. he said that william white was a noble person. this is high praise from one abolitionist to another. we must remember that even though douglass was a black man and a slave and ha

after the lecture, 30 white men started to tear down the platform and beat up frederick douglass and william white. one of douglass' hands was broken. he said william white saved his life that day. a man with a big stick was about to hit him over the head and william white stopped it from happening. they do get away. they are not murdered that day in pendleton, indiana. douglass felt grateful to white for the rest of his life. he is an unsung hero. there are hundreds of people that we don't know about who took an active part in the movement. douglass said i shall never forget we were like two brothers. we were ready to dare and do and die for each other. william white was a noble person. this is high praise from one abolitionist to another. we must remember although douglass was a black man and slave and was involved with prejudice, he had a good heart. he did not have hate. there were decent men like william white. this experience reminds us this was dangerous. this was a dangerous line of work. some people would fight back. some speakers when they were attacked or physically assault

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

frederick douglass says agitate, agitate, agitate. that's what you're seeing here. what the family makes clear, they don't want to see vigilante justice. they want to see nonviolent protest. they wanted to see people exercising their first amendment rights and making sure that it is nonviolent and peaceful and the focus stays on justice, not on any side shows. >> and roland, we want to at least let our viewers know about ben jealous, you talked to him as well, the head of the naacp. his statement saying we hope this means mr. zimmerman will finally be charged, arrested, and brought to jury. there's always been sufficient basis for probable cause. there has never been a need for a grand jury. there has simply been a need for an arrest. that's what the family is waiting for. >> it's all a matter of being patient and people are saying time clock, when does it all begin? the key is justice might take some time, but you want to get it right versus actually rushing something and then you get no justice in the end. >> all right. roland martin, thank you. >>> here is a rund

frederick douglass academy, young students are walking out because failed about the teachers and their system is the story for me. >> will, get to you next time. we are out of time. >> will cain, good morning! >> he gets plenty of time. >> he does! he is going to be on my show at 9:30 eastern. >> i know. >> see you later, carol. >>> good morning. i'm carol costello. stories we are watching right now in the newsroom. >>> this isn't the madness of the ncaa or university of kentucky had in mind. if fans did this after the semifinal what will they do tonight? cops in lexington and lawrence are getting ready. >>> authorities have not charged george zimmerman with a crime but if they do a gun rights group is ready to defend him. >>> the widows of osama bin laden have learned what the penalty is for being so close to the most wanted man on earth. >>> sarah palin is hosting tooed show tomorrow. it's already getting interesting. >> what are you doing to prepare? are you reading some newspapers? >> oh! >> and it begins! >> you can still turn that plate around. >> that's a fine how do you? a grea

associate with the african- american communities historically have been by racial like malcolm x, frederick douglass,w.e.b. dubois. it is not unusual for barack obama to be considered african- american even when he has a white parents. it is something that has been quite common today and in the past and i imagine it will continue to be quite common in the future. host: barack obama originally ran for the house when he started his political career. what happened and had he won the house seats, what do you think would happen to his trajectory? guest: i had a bit of a moment when i realized this and that is that barack obama ran for the house which was his first major race and he lost in the primary. i think what would happen if he had one is he may have gotten trapped that by virtue of representing a liberal, lower income black district in chicago, his trajectory would have been cut off at a certain point, maybe mayor of chicago but no further than that. barack obama had a unique political talent but even unique political talents can i get past the institutions and accumulated disparities that make hi

frederick bailey hated it. auld was the first master to whip him but auld wasn't very good at it. and auld gave up. for the better part of a year, rented douglass to a ceremony known slave breaker in the community seven miles away, one edward covey. edward covey became douglass' master for the better part of a year between the ages of 16 and 17. edward covey beat douglass and terrorized him psychologically, broke him as a human being according to douglass of' memory. broke him, lost his will. at one point he fled back to st. michael's and begged thomas auld to just take me away from that fiend. auld said no. it's probably your own fault. go back in the morning. he went back the next morning tail between his legs. but it was a sunday and edward covey didn't beat slaves on sunday, but on monday morning, he met douglass working in the stables lifting hay. with a switch, and according to douglass, he resisted, and they fought, claimed douglass, for two years. two hours. i've never believed that that fight lasted two hours. who knows. maybe 20 minutes. but according to douglass in this pivotal moment of his life as a slave, at least it's the way he

douglas and say, you know, don't sit around waiting for other people to do right by you, as frederick douglassnd in your power at the ballot box. >> sheryll cashin, what do you teach at georgetown? >> i'm a professor of law. i teach legal history called race in american law, which covers most of the major race cases decided by this reincorporate i also teach constitutional and administrative law, and sometimes property. sometimes local government law. >> when you approach public affairs, or when you send this manuscript to a publisher, what was the answer back from public affairs and why were they interested in the storied? >> well, fortunately i already had a prior relationship with them. public affairs published my first book which was a book about, a book titled the failures of immigration. but it's about why we still struggle to be an integrated society. so i had a relationship with them and i sent a proposal to them via my aging, and they were familiar with me because of the first book in promoting the first book. they knew that as hard as it is to get attention to mmr, if you're not famo