frederick douglass was so captivated by madison washington's story that he penned a novella. frederick douglass was a former slave that was a leading voice in the middle decades of the 19th century, one of the most famous black intellectuals of that period. and in his novella, "the heroic slave," he described madison washington as a freedom loving virginian akin to other freedom loving virginians, namely george washington, thomas jefferson, patrick mchenry, and other founding fathers. madison washington's story of revolt is a success story, unfortunately many attempts at slave revolt and escape and other forms of resistance were not successful. that is because the entire system at the local, state and national level was set up to preserve the institution of slavery. enslaved people and their allies who were trying to resist were really fighting against insurmountable odds in many cases, and we see that in the example of dangerfield newbie, one of the small group of men who joined the radical abolitionist john brown for his in 1859.arpers ferry this raid was part of a planned

. >> the life and times of frederick douglass.nd -- an immense assembly forened in fremont temple the first blast of electric wires. >> we were met together to receive and celebrate the first governments of the proclamation. >> we were waiting and listing. >> we were watching by the dim light of the stars for the dawn of a new day. >> longing for the answers to the prayers of centuries. came and went, still no word. a man with hasty step advanced to the crowd and explained. >> it is coming. it is on the wires. >> sobs and tears. >> my old friend, a colored preacher, expressed the heartfelt emotion of the hour when he led all voices. triumphed. it's people are free. no more weeping and wailing , no more weeping and wailing. no more weeping. no more wailing. on theg ♪ >> first day of january, 1860 three, all persons held as the people shall be in rebellion against the united states. free andl be forever the executive government of the united states, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain th

there's a lot of jefferson, jefferson crossed with frederick douglass sort of thing. it was a lot. it was a lot. without the historians and the archeologists, there's no way i could have wrote that book. >> one thing i hadn't thought of a lot, i think, which is the paradox for the slave, which is that the diminished economic prospects of the master spell uncertainty and possibly a worse fate, to be sold down the river, to the deep south, maryland or mississippi. you're so bound to this master that them encountering economic ruin can be a terrible thing for you because it means things are going to get worse for your life. >> and jefferson is the stereotypical case of this. you have a guy, for all his brilliance, he was a bad businessman, like drinking really expensive wines, and when he dies, he's in deeply in debt. the thing he has that is valuable is the bodies of people. they sell the people on the lawn at monticello to pay or the debts. and break up the families. >> for one too many bottles of wine. >> exactly. monticello, where they built it, it's like bad farming land, there's

when i think about that history i think of frederick douglass every bit as much as being the founder as much as those that wrote the constitution just like those that fought for my right to vote and that's what i believe about all of us if you ask me what it is you are responsible for and how to think about your role as a citizen in a democratic republic is the role of the founder you have to think about it is that level of responsibility and duty and our expectations of the elected officials in washington have to be similarly that high. we have a bunch of people there that are setting up their own political mistake not going to work the american people neo do. one of theompromises if they created the electoral college and some candidatecollegeand sog about getting rid of that. it'is that just a waste of time? >> i think we will all be dead by the time that is addressed so it is kind of a waste of time. let's put people in these offices that feel the need to be responsive to the american people rather than the needs of special interests. >> we are here in california where 25 years ag

so the next time trump wants to bring up history he should check with his friend frederick douglass.rump clearly has no regrets about america abandoning an ally that has lost 11,000 of their troops helping fight this war. he also doesn't give a damn about what could happen if those isis fighters escape. >> the president pressed, too, on those isis prisoners. >> could isis pose a threat elsewhere? >> well, they could be escaping to europe. that's where they want to go. >> trevor: wow. so what? trump doesn't care about isis fighter because he thinks they're only going to go to europe? that's really heartless. and, also, trump, you realize you need europe, right, because without europe, there's no romania. without romania there's no vampires. without vampires, you don't have a lawyer. ( laughter ) ( applause ) who would the f.b.i. indict? i mean... secondly, it's really shortsighted, because if you let thousands of isis fighters regroup, they could come back bigger than ever. it's exactly what happened with the backstreet boys. we took our eyes off them, they regrouped, and now they're

. >> frederick douglass talks about that in his autobiography. the famous saying once you learn to review will be forever free. when people say you are the 14th librarian of congress and the first female librarian -- so important but also the first person of color. i prepared for parts of these laws for my swearing-in and list them all. and reminded gently by my mom it could be a downer and your swearing in, just saying how significant it is. the list was so long. >> congratulations in the intention. >> the authority figures here, the digitization, it makes more things accessible to more people. it is in jeopardy. >> i don't read digital books. i use my computers and typewriter, but when i became the director of the library of argentina, my first mission was first of all to digitize, and to digitize as many texts as we could for an equivalent virtual library of the holdings that we had because we relocated and when a series across country, we were the national library of any argentinian and did have access to everything. it was very important. th

went to frederick douglass high school where my father taught many moons ago and desperately wanted to go to the flagship law school but of course blatt one - - back then blacks were not admitted so he went to howard and started to study it was discovered by the dean houston he was the first american editor admitted to the harvard law review so his portrait sits in the building not barack obama or supreme court justices but just as hamilton because the first african-american because he discovered thurgood marshall. [laughter] but this one was the best advocate he had ever seen and mentor and graduated the top of his class he could've had any clerkship he wanted to but he went back to baltimore fresh out of law school hung up a shingle downtown in his first year he followed a law student for not admitting blacks. he made an argument nobody had made before or that no court had ever excepted before and he wanted to go the first graduate desegregated by the highest court in that same argument he made in 1932 he may 20 years later in front of the supreme court with the board of education i

like frederick douglass i think is a founder just like the guys who wrote the constitution.ause] sen. bennet: and the people that fought, mostly women, for my daughters to have the right to vote, all the women who are here have the right to vote, they are founders, as well. what i would say to you guys and others in israel is that whether you like it or not, and i think you should like it, that is what all of you are, too. --s not found itself democracy does not found itself automatically. it is what every generation does to make the country more democratic, more fair, more free. that is how you strengthen a democracy, not weaken a democracy. we face different issues, but we face the same challenges and the same goals as israel. and i believe going forward, we should be allies both in terms of our national security interests, but also in our desire to be able to promote the idea of democracy in our own societies and around the world. if we don't do it in israel -- and israel doesn't do it, no one else will be able to do it. thank you for everything you guys are doing to prom

in the next century, leaders like sojourner truth, frederick douglass escaped the evils of slavery andought for the ideal enshrined in the declaration of independence that we are all created equal, and that our rights come from god. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: it's true. in the 20th century, african-american churches, civic organizations, and hbcus like this one, this great one that we have right here, it is a beauty. it is a nice auditorium to, i have to say. go to a lot of places, it is one of the nicer ones. do you mind if we come back? [laughter] pres. trump: you helped lead the righteous struggle to secure civil rights. african-americans have given their blood, sweat and tears for this nation. you are entitled to a government that protects your families, your jobs, your safety, your family, and always puts american citizens first. so true. so true. [applause] pres. trump: from the beginning, my vow has been to stand up for those who have been forgotten, neglected, overlooked and ignored, and we stand up loudly and clearly in our nations capitol. my goal has been to give a v

. >> time to make someone's monday surprising a wonderful guidance counselor from frederick douglassgroup of students. they think they're here on a "gma" tour. >> what she doesn't know, t.j. is about to walk in and surprise them all. >> this has been the worst tour ever. we have just been wasting our time. in our weather office. hey, good morning, gang. >> hi. >> how is itmatt where is sharrell matta? >> right here. >> okay, how has the tour been going? >> okay. >> it hasn't been a tour. what it's been, you see that hidden camera we have up there. >> yes. >> you see, sharrell matta, you are live on "good morning america" right now, all of you are. and you're here because you're students and everyone wanted to honor you. i need you to come with me right now. come, come, come, come, come, come. so that wasn't really the tour. where are the kids? come on kids. come on kids. everybody follow me. the tour was just a ruse. you're not really here for a tour. you are here so we can honor you. [ cheers and applause ] >> on "good morning america." now, come here. come here. don't get shy on me

it's present in frederick douglass, w.p.a. narrative.d guy, too. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: "dungeons and dragons" for those who don't know. ( cheers and applause ) >> so, i mean, my first game of "dungeons and dragons" was when i was like seven. >> stephen: sure. >> so this is like, in my bones. so when i went to write something i had all of that in me already, so even though it was in the slave narratives, it was the thing i would be automatically already attracted to. >> stephen: um, well, thank you for the book. thank you for being here. don't tell me how it ends. >> i won't. >> stephen: it's nice to see you again ta-nehisi . >> thank you so much. thank you. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: "the water dancer" is available now. ta-nehisi coates, everybody. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: hello! hey, that's it for "the late show." now stick around for james corden. good night! captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ♪ are you ready y'all to have some fun ♪ feel the love tonig

he tried to get more people to go with him, but even harriet tubman and frederick douglass were like,i'm good on that. good luck in heaven. john brown's example continues to resonate with white activists like the redneck revolt. what member of the club were you? >> 11 or 12. i saw what happened? charlottesville. i'm a semi-observant jew. it made me feel compelled to do something. >> okay, wait. white jewish guy, white woman any need to talk to a regular white guy. >> seattle is really white. it's like norway. essentially. but my naked is like 80% plus people of color. around the election time, all of a sudden there's like white power slogans at my kid's park. the swastikas down the lake where i go hang out with my family. and like all this stuff just starts swirling. this elderly african-american couple a few blocks away, someone painted the "n" word on their truck. that's messed up. so i was just like, well -- time to get off my ass and do something. >> yeah. why aren't more white people here? and i mean maybe not here with us right now, but here in this frame of mind. you know? >> t

less orthodox religion is liberal for instant secularism drove them to their conscience and frederick douglass wrote that revivals of religion and of the slave trade go hand-in-hand because you recognize it. they are standing on the sideline with the business is fighting for civil rights. this is only counterintuitive because the religious responsible for the progress that it didn't accomplish. the opposition is exclusively religious and mark my words it is going to be trying to claim credit for the victory. not simply claim that it's responsible for life, liberty and dignity. talking about the constitution and the era of course we are talking about that and not this yesterday from a time when they were an outpost of a question came when there was no constitution let alone the first amendment to the constitution. everything is owed to us so we don't know how far apart those are. the declaration of independence is an amazing document love it and encourage everyone to think about it. i have been in the founding. as a justification, it was an announcement that severed our political connection to

but not to nat turner or frederick douglass. >> a day i'll never forget. >> may god bless us all. >>the greatest discoveries you've made in your career. >> it is so important. this bible indicates the faith and the hope that one day african-americans would be free. >> and right below the display, forever tied to turner and his bible, the name maurice person. >> he's not able to travel, due to his health, but he's seen pictures. so, he knows. he's happy to have it there. what do you think of this bible being in the most famous museum in america? >> i guess it's all right, yeah. >> it's all right. it's pretty cool, huh? >> that bible is now where it belongs. it's very important for people to understand that some of the principles that he stood for -- equality, freedom -- those are the same principles regardless of what your nationality or ethnicity is. >> we see this bible as an act of reconciliation from our family. that bible, it's very powerful. it's a healer. >> it's powerful stuff. >> very powerful. >> a month after the museum opening, the descendants of nat turner had another rec

he went to frederick douglass high school where my father had taught many moons ago. he then went to lincoln university and wanted to go to the flagship law school, university of maryland law school. back then blacks were not , admitted. he went down to howard law school and he started studying discovered by the dean of howard law school, charles hamilton houston. dean houston was the first african-american editor admitted to the harvard law review. his portrait is the only portrait that fits in the law review building, not barack obama, not all the supreme court justices. just charles hamilton houston. it was not because he was the first african-american editor but because he discovered thurgood marshall. as a dean, he saw the student who was so brilliant, advocate, ntored and he mean him. he graduated top of his class. he could have gone to any law firm, but he went back to baltimore. fresh out of law school he hung up a shingle on a redwood street downtown. he filed a lawsuit against the university of maryland law school for not admitting blacks. he made an argumen

amy: roger mcnanamee, i want to turno mark zuckerberg speaking last week where he invoked frederick douglassmartin luther king jr., black lives matter movement, argued that a attempto reduce false information on facebook could censor free speech. >> in times of social tension, our impulse is often to pull back on free expression because we want the progress that comes from free expression, but we don't want the tension. we saw this when martin luther king jr. wrote his famous letter from a birmingham jail where he was unconstitutionally jailed for protesting peacefully. we saw this in the effort to shut down campus protests during the vietnam war. we saw this way back when americans deeply polarized about its role in world war i and the supreme court ruled at the time the socialalist leader could be imprisoned for making an antiwar speech. in the end, all of these decisions were wrong. pulling back on free expression wasn't the answer. in fact, it often ends up hurting the minority views that we seek to protect. amy: that is mark zuckerberg. civil rights leaders quickly criticized his reach.

it's named after frederick douglass, who demanded that our move closer toward living up to its professedals. i think we should name it after we couldo reminds us be as ambitious as the marshall plan but let's invest right here at home. when it comes to problems like racial inequity, i'm also really focused on solutions. solutions coming from within the black communities private i'm proposing that the federal government have a 25% goal for -- business is led by people who have been historically excluded. we are proposing an initiative that would provide a debt for jobs guarantee. a lot of peaceable -- a lot of people face what is informally called a black tax. based on the fact that an entrepreneur of color is likely to expect to find relatives and support family members because of that same wealth gap you were talking about. access to credit is another big piece that needs to be reformed. whether we are talking about criminal justice, because having a parent incarcerated make someone less likely to meet their potential later on. to a new voting rights act and homeownership, all these thi

. >> and the politics of the publications from the earliest stories to frederick douglass 1845 masterpieceand beyond as quite simply superb. from the time of the passage of the fugitive slave act he argues they might hope for public indifference but no longer count on public ignorance. not only were the fugitive slaves in the north at risk but also freed black people in the north could be denied the right to habeas corpus and sent south on a false pretext that they belong to someone they are. simply put being black was understood as the equivalent of being a slave. well-known the slave was a picture that everybody knew mason-dixon line - - north and south of the mason dixon line. cormack people of color seldom run unless there is something to run from. [laughter] among the tiny fraction of slaves from the border states who managed to escape maybe 30000 to the underground railroad, they could have their stories told. 102 former fugitive slaves for 1866 with the 18 sixties with the impassioned evidence to limit slavery along with many other politicians to stand with the abolitionist to resto

treatment of these autobiographies and the politics of the publication from the early stories to frederick douglasspiece and beyond as quite simply superb. by the time of the passage of the fugitive slave act of 1850, delbanco argues, slave hunters and their allies might still hope for public indifference, but they could no longer count on public ignorance. not only with the fugitive slaves living in the north, at risk, but also freed black people in the north could be denied the right to habeas corpus and sent south on the false pretext that they belonged to someone there. simply put, being black was understood as the equivalent of being a slave. solberg northup 12 years of slave published in 1853 as a well-known illustration of the danger that slavery posed to all black people in america, north and south, of the mason-dixon line. as lincoln asserted irrefutably, quote, people of any color still don't run unless there is something to run from. among the tiny fraction of sleighs mostly from the border states the managed to escape, maybe 30,000 through the underground railroad, they were able to hav

he went to frederick douglass high school where my father taught. he went to link the university and wanted to go to the flagship law school, university of maryland law school. but blacks were not admitted. went down to howard law school and he started studying and was discovered by the dean. dean houston was the first african-american editor admitted to the harvard law review. his portrait is the only portrait that fits in the law review building or not barack obama or supreme court justices. just charles hamilton houston. it was not because he was the first african-american editor but because he discovered thurgood marshall. as 18 he saw this student -- a dean he saw the student who was so brilliant, advocate, writer and he meant toward him and graduated top of his class. he could have gone to any law firm, but he went back to baltimore. fresh out of law school he hung up a shingle on a redwood street downtown. suit for notw admitting blacks. he made an argument no one had made before. he made the argument no court .ad accepted before and he won u

deserve to win and when it comes to an agenda for black america, our focus is on the douglass plan named after frederick home and investing it in dismantling systemic racism. we've learned the hard way when you take a racist policy and you replace it with a neutral one, it's not enough to deliver equality, and so we've put forward, i believe the most comprehensive vision that will tackle not just issues like criminal justice reform, which has profound racial inequities, but also on the opportunities side, empowering black entrepreneurs, making sure the government is doing a much better job of doing business with businesses owned by people who have been systematically shut out as well as addressing things like home ownership, education, access to the vote. what i find is that when i speak about these things, they are resonating strongly with black audiences, but i've got a lot of work to do to go out there and sell it. i do not think that the vps advantage among black voters in south carolina is permanent, but those of us who are competing for it really need to go out there and earn it. >> mayor buttigie

they put up four african-americans, frederick douglass, rosa parks, mlk, sojourner truth just since the60s, right? and of course what was missing is native americans. so they choice one native american to put in there. does anybody know who it is? was it standing bear? okay, well, before that, i think the first one was popay. and it was popay, the leader of the -- but of course you've got, you know, a pretty big lobby in the 19 or 20 pueblo communities of mexico. so i don't know the story behind that. i was kind of looking at all of this stuff when i was preparing my talk and, you know, the other thing is, is this controversy over the statue of the world war ii monuments. the three soldiers in the vietnam war memorial and the fact that one of the reasons that this became a controversy is that one of the veterans said that -- what's her name? maya lynn's design was -- i'm trying to find what he said. a black gash of shame and sorrow cut into the earth. and so they came up with this one, and what i didn't know about this one, i knew there was a white man in the middle and a black man on t