beecher stowe wrote a uncle tom -- "uncle tom's cabin" -- there is a little store called uncle tom's market. if you ever go to maine it is there and i am sure people are surprised when they see it because that is where she wrote the book. >> joan and i and a bunch of others will be there for the 200th anniversary in june. i will stop by for sure. >> i wonder if you can give a brief time line so we have more of a context when she wrote the book when other things happened like a fugitive act or the dread scott decision when john brown -- and so forth. >> what happened was the fugitive slave law was passed which was a proslavery law. when slaves come to the north if you don't capture them and helped return them to the south you could go to jail. and paid $1,000 fine which was a lot of money back then and it could be bad for you. she got really mad about that. her sister in law says you know how to write. why don't you go back and write a novel? i am going to. and she did. but then what happened was a series of other laws after that. the kansas nebraska act opens the western territories

but it wasn't tom or jackie.t was the wife of that former child actor they had talked about. >> it struck me as a little odd at first. she said i'm pregnant, and at work, and one of my friends found your note on our boat. >> odd, perhaps, but jim was grateful for the call. maybe this young woman would have some information. >> i thought the way she opened the conversation was very unusual. and i had asked her for her name, when she'd indicated they purchased the boat, and she was hesitant in responding. and that didn't seem normal to me. >> jim, the ex-cop, wasn't getting a good feeling from this young woman. she was reluctant to say much, and quick to get off the phone. eventually she did give her name. it was jennifer deleon. and her husband's name, skylar. jennifer also gave jim something that at least sounded like a direction to go in. >> she said they'd purchased the boat, and that my brother and his wife had talked of going to san carlos, mexico, and then she said i'm sorry, i'm busy, i've got to go. >> we'

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>> tom: no. no you can't do that. >> greg: mike holmgren did that in the ser bowl. >> tom: he did. >> jim: it has been tried a couple of times since then by other teams but it is a big gamble. >> greg: you would never do that as a coach? >> tom: no, i don't think so. >> greg: so, assuming he stepped out, the score is going to be 18-17. they are going to have a 1st and goal inside the 4-yard-line. >> tom: it will be 1st down and they can kill a couple of downs. >> the raiders have two timeouts left but that won't help. they are going to kick an extra point to win the game. >> tom: yep. >> greg: hue jackson talking it over. ken whisenhunt. went to his 4th string quarterback max hall. while we were celebrating the 57-yarder, max hall was able to lead them down the field impressively. >> jim: you have been around this game long enough, pap, to know it is not over until it is over. this is preseason. a lot of young players are in the game at this late stage of the game and they make mistakes. they are

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another author saw an uncle tom play and went. he was so up fiduciaryuated -- infuriated by what he saw with the endorsement of black power. he said a little yankee woman wrote a book, and that act of that single will caused a war, killed a million men, ruined the south, and changed the history of the whole world. now, he responded to stowe by writing many best sellers appropriating the character names to be reversed to create a pro-southern, anti-black statement, and one of the novels that he wrote, massive best seller, called the cleansing, became the source of dw griffins book which was masterfully made in the sense that it was completely redefined which is probably what it's all about because it created the vocab vocabulary, but at the same time, it was causing the resurrection of ku klux klan as the here rows -- he rows of the movies and stamped the dna of racial jen -- generations, and even as these reactionaries were getting very wide add audience during the era, this helped keep alive stowe's real message there were non-sy

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du bois and in a way uncle tom's cabin modern times he actually appreciated uncle tom's cabin in a way that many other of the 1960's and 70's did not and he uses a lot of the same devices which itself creates a change in the popular culture. >> one of the things that struck me in the introduction about your work about this book was how you demonstrate in a number of ways so what do term stowe's subversive techniques and how also that permeates through the popular culture and the afterlife of ogle, in a subversive way. can you talk about that for the audience? >> well when we read the novel today perhaps we don't feel the subversiveness as much as if we lived back in the 1850's but when it was first published it created incredible outrage in the south. there's a political cartoon of introduced in my book a picture of hell and what that is is the america that will be created by a uncle tom's cabin. from the southern point of view and it shows a black person and in the middle live shows uncle tom's cabin with a book entitled i love black people. it shows a picture of a bonfire with a doub

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we'll have more on the oil situation and libya in a moment, tom. >> tom: susie, a choppy day of trading as investors are looking ahead to the end of this week. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke gives a keynote speech on friday at a conference in jackson hole, wyoming. ahead of that, the dow rose 37 points, the nasdaq added 3.5 and the s&p 500 was up fractionally. trading volume started the week heavier, with 1.1 billion shares moving on the big board and just under two billion on the nasdaq. >> susie: stocks bounced back today after weeks of losses, but still investor confidence is pretty shaky. so what would it take to restore investor optimism? erika miller reports. >> reporter: if the stock market were an amusement park ride, it would probably look something like this. investors are at the edge of their seats as the s&p 500 has dropped more than 12% this month alone. strategists say investors want to see three things before they'll be convinced it's safe to step back in. the first is the resolution of europe's debt crisis, as strategist david levkowitz explains. >> in think inves

this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening everyone. president obama signed the long- awaited debt deal in washington today, but on wall street stocks sold off big time. tom, the losing streak continued here at the new york stock exchange with the dow negative for eight straight days and all 30 stocks in the dow closing in the red. >> tom: susie, the good news today was the debt agreement averts america defaulting on its debts, but investors returned to the worries regarding the health of the u.s. economy. the dow fell 265 points, the nasdaq lost 75 and the s&p 500 was off 32 points. the selling came on stronger volume, 1.25 billion shares moving on the big board and 2.3 billion on the nasdaq. >> susie: while investors were selling stocks they were buying gold, sending the yellow metal to a new record. in new york trading, gold futures for d

tom, traders here on wall street are already calling it a winning streak. >> tom: susie, the dow is now back to where it was before standard and poors downgraded america's credit rating. today, all the major averages were up by 2% or more. by the closing bell, the dow gained 214 points, the nasdaq jumped 47, and the s&p rose 25. volume down sharply from last week's volatile trading-- just over a billion shares trading on the nyse, just under two billion shares on the nasdaq. >> susie: as we said, the markets were pumped up by new deals, and the biggest one came from google. it's paying $12.5 billion to buy motorola mobility holdings. it's the cell phone unit that motorola spun off earlier this year. darren gersh has more. >> reporter: google is the place to go to find o about nascar's new winner or zsa zsa gabor's anniversary. but the company that organizes so much of the world's intellectual property has been under pressure from competitors like microsoft for intellectual property violations. which is why analysts say the deal to buy motorola mobility isn't about making handsets; it's