and the descendents of frederick douglass and booker t. washington still have residence at the resort. we talked about the guide and i would like to close with these advertisement guidebooks might tell you about the prescribed, but not necessarily the lived experiences. they are telling you where you should go, not necessarily where they went. where do we find this information? it would be great if we had diaries like the judge had. i was so jealous when he brought that out, but it's often not the case. a lot of people did not write diaries. if they did, they are not in the repositories we go to. one of the sad things i have seen is when african-americans died, people put their stuff on the street and we have lost so much history due to that process. they go dumpster diving and they have rescued so many treasures from the trash. but one of the ways we do find information is in the society pages of black newspapers. i will just tell you, i get lost in the society pages, because you see so many details, including where they are vacationing,

you have read frederick douglass, who in 1851, breaks with the garrisonions and moves to the position that the constitution is a guarantee of liberty, it is a freedom document. douglass becomes the voice of one of the principal voices of anti-slavery constitutionalism. he is saying that blacks, of course, our citizens, persons under the constitution, but fourth and most importantly, given what we are talking about today, are the freedom suits, the enslaved families themselves who brought these cases, most of all, laid down a series of arguments that the constitution was not proslavery, that the constitution did not create a slavery-based national system, but instead one based on freedom, and we think about james ash, anne bell, mary bell, eleonora bell, this long line of freedom suits, arguing that freedom was national while slavery was local. freedom was national while slavery was confined to certain places, certain contingencies, certain law, certain definition and conditions. and in dred scott's case, chief justice roger tawney tries to displace that entire line of argument, right?

there was a delegation of frederick douglass, a black delegation that came to see him in the early 1866s very put out by them and one of the things he said, it's really so hard to imagine what he is thinking when he says to them, i didn't sell any of my slaves it's like, what are you talking about? to me it he is still identifying with a planter class were not so sure that when he says that the so-called yeoman farmers to people who didn't have money automatically got pardoned that he was really thinking along the lines of restructuring the south away from what had been called the aristocracy. i think that was okay to do and it cut muster with most people but as soon as he got some power again, he begins using it in almost the same way and now he's making the planters come to him. he's got power over this people who called him basically, this was 19th century term "poor white trash. now he is saying, look who is poor white trash now. >> johnson and my mentor mckittrick's argument is remembered johnson was an outsider he was kind of his personality was really his problem. >> one of his p

one of the first homes he built was, of course, for his father, but frederick douglass is said to have never gotten the opportunity to enjoy the home because he died in 1895 before the home was completed. but the home is listed on the national register. this resort does not appear in the green book. and i think it's quite purposeful. if you look at highland beach, they always try to maintain their exclusivity and that they were part of the elite. there's even articles in the newspaper with charges against them, trying to become less exclusive and they kind of maintain their ground and say no. this is who it's for. we're not -- they didn't advertise. they didn't want this information to get out. but it's still a resort community to this day and descendents of frederick douglass, who have combined with pook booker t. washington, they still have associations with with the resort. we talked about the guides. one of the things i would like to close with, these advertisements and other travel literature might tell you about the described. those places are telling you where you should go, not

some accounts suggest john brown tried to sweettalk frederick douglass into physically joining the attack on harpers ferry. doesn't do it of course. summer, brown and his cohorts are bringing in large shipments of goods on the cumberland valley railroad. he calls himself dr. isaac smith. he's been telling people that he is a minor and he's looking for possible iron or minds and has been bringing in supplies back things likeoad on pix and axes when in reality they are muskets and pipes -- they will use it to go down to maryland and he will set up his headquarters at the kennedy farm and then in october of 1859, john brown and his men will raid. some of the raiders after the raid come back to the cumberland valley and try to catch the railroad to get out of the valley. beumber of them are going to captured near the cumberland atley railroad station scotland, pennsylvania where some of the raiders are captured. the raiders will manage to escape on the railroad and members of the underground railroad will smuggle a fleet -- free black osborne. anderson all the way to toronto. got us railroad

frederick douglass's speech, what is the fourth of july to a slave? martin luther king's i have a dream speech. ones that weer could pick. bige i will write another -- another book. the line from california, a republican. caller: thank you so much. first of all, i qualified my statement by saying i am ignorant of your writing and i would love to get a hold of a copy of your book. i have a few comments if you do not mind regarding your next book. what i am thinking you might consider -- if you had not considered this already in your current book -- the trail of tears that andrew jackson came up with and changed america's flight forever. the mexican war and a spanish-american war at all these wars of attrition, manifest destiny for the united states, all of these things took away someone's rights and gave rights to somebody else. behrens ofthe robin the 1900s and the spanish-american war, we colonial eyes. there are so many things that related to liberty and the taking of liberty of other people's property that we have done in this country. i would hope

but not to nat turner or frederick douglass. >> a day i'll never forget. >> may god bless us all. >> millions have come to the museum. add me to the list. i could understand that this could be one of 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.

his profit yet ultimately traffic tragic life offered a link between the vision of frederick douglass and black radicalism in the modern era. professor greenridge received her doctorate from boston university where her specialty includes african-american history and political history and explores the roots of african-american literature and black political consciousness during the progressive era and she is currently interim director of american studies and codirector of the african-american trail project at the center for the study of race and democracy and is a good friend of and hs and was one of our speakers in our legacy of the 1619. help us work on planning that series was also the commentator on the seminar last week so she's a frequent visitor to join me in welcoming her. [applause] >> thank you very much, can everyone hear me? i decided to say a special thanks to the massachusetts historical society and i did most of my research here: through archives and taking advantage of their wonderful resources so ithank them , it's one of the many places that helped me in the earliest

. >> it's named after frederick douglass. naming things after frederick douglass is not telling people anything. >> i think they're missing an opportunity. this is just free advice as well, as you mentioned, he's young. he's going to run for something else. he's going to -- >> he ran for dnc -- i'm sorry, he ran for dnc. >> president of that. >> yeah. >> and other activists i've had on that are african-american said to me, i don't think mayor pete has many plaque friends. that was the sense. no allegations he's a racist. racially insensitive or blind spot. i'll tell you, he had the shooting of eric logan during the campaign in the summer where you had a black man killed by white police. and the media covered this. he called the media first, mayor pete, before he called the logan family. that became a big issue. that says so much. you're going to the media, making your statement, not calling the logan family. many people in the black community confronted him on that. in real time, not years ago, not ten years ago, during the m

and donald trump has actually probably done the most for frederick douglass because he's a great guy.> i'm hearing a lot of great things about him. >> as one does. >> maya wiley and rick wilson, our thanks. we covered a lot of ground with two of our favorite guests. appreciate you both coming on on this monday night before it all gets under way. >>> coming up for us, what rod rosenstein just admitted to doing and why it doesn't end there. >>> the president's attacks and insults are one thing, but this is my institution. this is my justice department betraying us. >> we now know who released the private text messages between former fbi officials lisa page and peter strzok. former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein admitted it was his call to release hundreds of their private messages to reporters. the texts were personal. they were political. they were television jet fuel to outlets like fox news because they spoke to the deep-state theory among other things. both strzok and page have launched lawsuits of their own against the department for violating their privacy. rosenstein's ad

[applause] here in the world's largest library, side-by-side with the papers of frederick douglass, abrahamincoln, mary church terrel and thurgood marshall. rosa parks lived a life dedicated to equal rights and social justice and help change the country with the examples she set. standse of rosa parks with pride in the capital of rotunda, and in this exhibition you will see her standing tall quite literally, as her photos, papers and videos tower more than 12 feet above you. none of this would have been possible without the generosity of the howard g buford the rosan, who made parks collection a gift to the nation and the library. it all started when jensen collins, journalist, learned the collection was stored away in boxes in a warehouse. about and itory was read by mr. howard buffett, who bought the papers and gave them to the library so that they could be preserved and seen by everyone. jensen is now a scholar at the library of congress. [applause] the collection comprises 10,000 both missn from parks' private life entered decades of work for civil rights. it is photos and correspondenc

and donald trump has actually probably done the most for frederick douglass because he's a great guy. lot of great things about him. >> as one does. >> maya wiley and rick wilson, our thanks. we covered a lot of ground with two of our favorite guests. appreciate you both coming on on this monday night before it all gets under way. >>> coming up for us, what rod rosenstein just admitted to doing and why it doesn't end there. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ don't get mad. get e*trade, dawg. oh no, here comes gthe neighbor probably to brag about how amazing his xfinity customer service is. i'm mike, i'm so busy. good thing xfinity has two-hour appointment windows. they have night and weekend appointments too. he's here. bill? karolyn? nope! no, just a couple of rocks. download the my account app to manage your appointments making today's xfinity customer service simple, easy, awesome. i'll pass. >>> the president's attacks and insults are one thing, but this is my institution. this is my justice department betraying us. >> we now know who released the private text messages between former fbi officials lisa pa

. >> frederick douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized moreced. >> i have an article two where i have the right to do whatever i want as president, but i don't even talk about that. >> i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> believe it or not, i watch my words very carefully. there are those that think i'm a very stable genius, okay? i watch my words very, very closely. >> there's shocking new reporting today about the president trump presidency from an upcoming book by "washington post" reporters carol leonnig and phil rucker. at one point according to excerpts released in the book in "the washington post" the president did not seem to grasp the fundamental history surrounding the attack on pearl harbor. after his then staff secretary rob porter was accused of domestically abusing two women, the president suggested one of the women might have faked her injuries to, quote, get money out of porter. that's his quote. the president also complained that it was unfair -- this

abolitionists like frederick douglass and others had been pushing lincoln and his administration to recruit black men from the beginning. they clearly saw this more as a war for freedom. but for a number of reasons that was not allowed. the vast majority of the lawyer white citizenry in the north was not fighting this war to make african-americans equal. there were not necessarily fighting the war to end slavery. there were fighting to preserve the union. lincoln knew that and didn't want to undercut that motivation here but by 1863 that begins to change as the demand for the increase manpower becomes much more important. so the confederacy, i mean, from the very beginning they had to make sure that they were mobilizing as much of their and slave population as possible. the reasons are obvious. just the difference in population between north and south, the north could mobilize many more white men to carry a rifle. for the confederacy of course they are going to mobilize their enslaved population to free up as many white men to carry a rifle in the army itself. you would have that tens of th

the things you're saying here today, you put out a plan that impressed a lot of people, the frederick douglass do you diagnose the problem with your campaign on this issue. >> of course there is a difference between campaigning and getting known for one year and doing it for 40, but the thing about the caucus process and the primaries in the individual states from iowa to south carolina to the others is they break this down and for a lot of voters who really do make their final determinations in the last ten days or so, i believe we have every opportunity to continue getting that message out, to continue earning trust and earning support. >> mayor buttigieg, gene robinson. i'm going to follow up on willie's question and ask you a bit more about my home state of south carolina which easy to imagine you doing well or winning in iowa, doing well or winning in new hampshire and then coming to south carolina where you're really in the single digits according to the polls and right now don't look to do very well. what's your point of entry there? what or who is your point of entry there? do you have

. >> let me also name check frederick douglass. >> i didn't want to mention him because he's still doingx our country's system so we can survive a bad president. i'm going to go to somebody that's a little more local. my ep gave me this person, i didn't know about this story. maya moore, the wnba star, basically the lebron james equivalent of the wnba, two-time mvp. she will sit out a second straight season despite her continued success so she can continue to push for criminal justice reform and for the release of a guy named jonathan irons who she believes to be innocent of the crime he was incarcerated for. he's 39 years old. she met him in 2007 during a visit to the jefferson correctional facility in jefferson. he was born into severe poverty, just 16 when the incident occurred in a st. louis suburb. the homeowner named him but there is no corroboration, no dna, no footprints, no blood evidence, anything. this young woman decided she's going to sit out basketball to try to get him out. that is the meaning of trying to put your money where your mouth is and really believe in criminal j

i think what's impressed some people, frederick douglass plan dealing with economic as well as socialnd i think that it's going to be interesting that a lot of people do not understand south carolina, which is the first test of real black votes, many of them are military families. so how he deals with iran and the other candidates deal with iran is also going to be significant to the black vote in south carolina. we've got to stop seeing blacks as one dimensional. there's a large military family that, a family percentage in the black vote in south carolina. >> right. so now you can pretend like slim is there and ask him a question. >> go for it let me ask you, in light of what you have said about how you would have handled this kind of iran situation, and many of us raising doubts that there was imminent danger, how shooting and killeding one man, a bad man, all of a sudden disassembled an imminent threat? what happened to the rest of the threat? why wouldn't this other general continue? would you, if you were to be president, bring america back to the iraq nuclear accord that preside

and the quote i have been thinking of, it comes from and oling of speeches that frederick douglass read. let it be remembered no luxury so exquisite as the exercise of humanity and no post as so honorable as those who defends the rights of man. mr. speaker, america is more than a country. we are an idea, an inspiration for those who yearn to be free and have the ability and dignity to determine nare own destiny. so many times in this body as these moments rose around the world, the shipyard workers of poland and the berlin wall crumbling and becoming one, those in hong kong who just want freedom of speech. let not us be the congress that misses the opportunity. let us not be the congress that takes one week earlier and sends a message to the iranian government that sends a message that we are divided, that we would not stand up if they murdered their people or those students who rose and would not across an american flag and booed those who would, those who stand up in iran and say, the enemy is iran, not america. let us not be that congress and take this moment in time, where history h