john mueller has his first workout on frederick douglass. we all know but frederick douglass, but you focus on the last 18 years of his life. why is that? >> many people know him as an abolitionist, state and an advocate for women's rights, but he is so much more than that. the last 25 years he spent in washing to d.c. he moved here in the late -- in the early 1870s. his children which are also well positioned well respected in washington and washington was the place to be with reconstruction. the first class about congressman, black senators. frederick douglass was really the most prominent black men of washington. there is a call to start a newspaper and frederick douglass at this experience with the norstar kind of as a leader wanted douglas to hope balbis paper and paper and help finance it.

frederick douglass competed the shipment for that position. so douglass is involved in local politics. we continue to run his newspaper. he also at one point was president of friedman bank for a short time. he moved his family here. it really was a man of washing can. there's been many biographies about frederick douglass. we learn about in the great hall. reno in 1845 he wrote his autobiography about his experiences as an order, as a non-bullishness, but his later life is an ignored. so spending a lot of time in washington, especially where his home is. i started to look into what is written about his later life and from there wasn't much written. i said hey, this is a great opportunity. >> his home is called cedar hill? >> is correct. >> isn't still here? >> and 1960s, john f. kennedy signed a bill that gave control of the house and department of interior in the early 1970s, frederick douglass saint albans. the flagship site of the national park service. has over 40, 50,000 visitors every year. it sits high up on a hill. you can see the washi

>>host: you one of frederick douglass book prize and a finalist for the pulitzer and university of pennsylvania. professor mccurry. thank-you. >> man well is a correspondent for the "washington post" and the author of the rise of margot rubio. what is the appeal of marco rubio? >> a talented or greater but he represents an opportunity to see how a hispanic politician will play at the national level. of person that people outside the republican party will be watching to get a sense is a latino politician who can broaden the base outside of the community's. >>host: is he running for president? >> who is into and they are elected to the senate? [laughter] he is ambitious, rising very quickly and has established himself in a hurry as a voice of consequence on major issues such as immigration. no question people within the infrastructure looked to him as somebody to place on the short best. >> that but how far away was the? >> it is a secret process. everyone who claims what is going on the private they may not. but but to say typically it is not something we see very often. the recognition from the

this is from the frederick douglass elementary school. look at those clouds. this is how it looked from way out in space. here we are dealt washington. still some left over clouds. 32 degrees right now. heading out to school to work tomorrow morning, it is a bundle up kind of morning. the winds diminished earlier today. a bit of a windshield, too. dulles and manassas and out to fairfax, arlington, now into the low 30's. around detroit chicago, a couple days ago with 70 degrees in chicago. our temperature right here adopt almost 20 degrees from the same time yesterday. officially nothing in washington for rainfall. tomorrow morning, it will be clear and sunny. morning low temperatures around the freezing mark. the winds will be like for them what they have been. temperatures will be higher than this than our micro cast. eventually some moisture will be coming back then back into some milder weather as we head into the weekend. unlike december. get everyone in the holiday spirit. for the first day this december, low average them back into the 50's. saturday, tem

frederick douglass you mentioned. i also have a portrait of him and i've had that portrait sunday -- since i won on the court a little over two decades ago. i'm a big fan of frederick douglass. what courage it took for him, a freed slave, to cite the declaration of independence, not something that is foreign to this nation but the founding document of this nation. he cited that is exhibit a in what was wrong with slavery. exhibit a. he did need to go to another, any other shores or any other ideology. it was our founding ideology. how can you be inherently equal and have slavery? how can you be free and enslaved another? he understood that. so we fought a great war. we go to gettysburg and what does he say? it's up to us, to make it all worthwhile. we are the living. we have the opportunity, finite amount of time to make it work. i hear people, you disagree with someone. that person's motives must be bad. i don't think that mason's motives could probably say that he is a dour man who maybe he wanted to make and so i w

frederick douglass you mentioned. i also have a portrait of him and i've had that portrait sunday -- since i won on the court a little over two decades ago. i'm a big fan of frederick douglass. what courage it took for him, a freed slave, to cite the declaration of independence, not something that is foreign to this nation but the founding document of this nation. he cited that is exhibit a in what was wrong with slavery. exhibit a. he did need to go to another, any other shores or any other ideology. it was our founding ideology. how can you be inherently equal and have slavery? how can you be free and enslaved another? he understood that. so we fought a great war. we go to gettysburg and what does he say? it's up to us, to make it all worthwhile. we are the living. we have the opportunity, finite amount of time to make it work. i hear people, you disagree with someone. that person's motives must be bad. i don't think that mason's motives could probably say that he is a dour man who maybe he wanted to make and so i w

. >> frederick douglass says it is the cruelest master who brings you very close -- the good masters someone who -- you are eating from his table and wearing his hand me down clothes and have a lot of liberty but that is the cruelest master because he brings you so close but at the same point you don't have your liberty. jennings eventually wanted his freedom but also hercules who is george washington's slave, he ran away. how deep was paul jennings's motivation to gain his freedom? >> let me say as someone who was responsible for interpretation at monticello and montreal your visitors will come and want the interpreter to assure them that jefferson, madison, they were good masters and i will not answer such a question directly and instead what i'd do is quote frederick douglass saying the feeding and clothing of me cannot atone for taking my liberty away. it wasn't so much the living conditions of slaves in the upper south at this time that was the most profound and bawling parts of being a slave but as you say was the lack of freedom, the inability to transfer the fruit of your own

frederick douglass you mentioned.i also have a portrait of him and i've had that portrait sunday -- since i won on the court a little over two decades ago. i'm a big fan of frederick douglass. what courage it took for him, a freed slave, to cite the declaration of independence, not something that is foreign to this nation but the founding document of this nation. he cited that is exhibit a in what was wrong with slavery. exhibit a. he did need to go to another, any other shores or any other ideology. it was our founding ideology. how can you be inherently equal and have slavery? how can you be free and enslaved another? he understood that. so we fought a great war. we go to gettysburg and what does he say? it's up to us, to make it all worthwhile. we are the living. we have the opportunity, finite amount of time to make it work. i hear people, you disagree with someone. that person's motives must be bad. i don't think that mason's motives could probably say that he is a dour man who maybe he wanted to make and so i wa

i was frederick douglass. at any rate, it was one of the thrills of my recent life. dole -- joel is the author of many books, including the anti- slavery project from the slave trade to human trafficking. he is co-editor of "slavery, identity, and memory." you do not sleep. "slavery, migration, and temper -- and contemporary bought it in africa." -- "slavery, migration, and contemporary slavery in my -- in africa." joel on the crucial questions of defining slavery. joel? [applause] >> i would like to start by taking this opportunity to thank you david and your team. having spent 26 hours on the planet, i have to say that any problems arising out of this presentation can be attributed to just lie -- jet lag. what i want to say, starting this presentation, this is a paper that was commissioned specifically for this conference. while i worked on the area of definitions in the past, i felt obliged to write something new. that is never a good idea. the paper is cracking at the seams. i hope it speaks and advances some of the issues and complications we heard in the previo

dramatic impact on a lot of leading african-american intellectuals like henry highland barnett, frederick douglass and it had a bit effect on a man named john brown who wanted to strike the first blow at harpers ferry. so i guess this is a final thought i would leave you with. one of the most remarkable things about movements from below is that they are unpredictable. you never know when they are going to arise or how. these things that rise up and demands for justice, these demands for equality, these demands for freedom. they are unpredictable and in their unpredictability i think they are also a great source of hope. thank you very much. [applause] we have time for questions and i hope you will have some. we would like you to speak into the microphone if possible. >> during the discussion you talk about roaming around. how did they believe that slaves are brought onto the ship and were shackled and stayed shackled. did they get free somehow? >> is a good question. the standard practice on slave ships was for the men to be shackled but not the women or children. a must the women resisted in whic

i remain very humbled by the recognition of frederick douglass book prize a couple years ago. that really meant a lot to me. it really validated a lot of what i was trying to do. david said i have been working on this issue for quite some time. i started what has now become many years of traveling around the world, researching. directly documenting people in forms of bondage and slavery and gathering an extensive amount of data. i have just come back from asia, yet another research trip, and after that trip, i have not currently documented the cases of more than 1300 people who we would say are caught in various forms of modern-day slavery. i am saying that only because there is some new information i will share with you. i wanted to know it is based on this research and based on the cases i have documented. you can still challenge me and ask questions. the focus of this conference will could not be more important or timely. we have a very diverse array of individuals on the panel's. we are all seeking to better understand and tackle this issue of slavery more effectively. wha

i'm humbled by the recognition of printed atlas but price -- of the frederick douglass booker prize -- book prize. thise been working on issue. i let investment-banking 12 years ago and started -- left investment banking 12 years ago and started researching. time -- directly document the people in forms of servitude in bondage and gathering data. i have just come back from asia on yet another research trip. after that, i now comprehensively documented the cases of more than 1,300 caught in various forms of modern-day slavery. there is information and data i will share with you based on this research in cases i have documented. you can still challenge me and ask questions. the focus of this conference really could not be more important or timely. we have a diverse away -- array of individuals on the panel. we are all seeking to better understand and tackle this issue of slavery more effectively. what is slavery in the modern era? how does it relate to past forms of slavery? do we still have slavery today or have a corrupted and sensationalize this term for other means and ends? these a

frederick douglass started a newspaper. these men saw the media as their form of liberation of emancipation. because information is power. as we drove and i realize i have no idea where secretary rumsfeld leaves. but then i see the coffee shop ahead of us and i think they will tell the truth. so i go inside and i say i would like to wear donald rumsfeld as. they said go down the street, make a right, another right. you'll see that the end. i was very, we are onto something. so we go down the road. he don't go down mount pleasant. we make a right and another right. seems lik like you couldn't do t enough. [laughter] we go to the end and we see the black tinted windows of the secret service suv and we know we have arrived. i'm thinking that secretary rumsfeld notice the significance of this property? sure enough, i see a stake in the ground that says mount misery next to the driveway. we race off to this ancient black church. i'm speaking to an older woman who is a descendent of slaves and i say you live in such a historic pl

for many decades frederick douglass seem to be the only black person deemed worthy of a substantial biographyat is, one published by an established house. this situation persisted well beyond the segregation decision of 1954 and the trouble of the civil rights movement. finally, according to my record, in 1972 the historian louis harmon published the first of his two volumes on booker t. washington that was written -- worthy of a pulitzer prize. the silence enveloping black writers began to break. in 1973, demagoguery of the novels richard wright by the frenchman, followed by a 77 of the novelist historian by the american scholar robert hemingway. and in 86 and 1988, came my two volumes on hughes. aided by a voluminous archive left behind by hughes, i tried to tell through the lens of one crucial life the african-american story as it had existed, and exists at a certain social level. i tried to do justice to the complexity that had been discounted over the centuries, and the representation of american racial reality. the picture is quite different now. the 1990s saw a steady rise of prize-win