john rankin was an abolitionist in ripley, ohio. he helped hide slaves in his home and on his property as they escaped from the state of kentucky over the ohio river into the state of ohio. he would then move them farther north, ultimately, on their way to canada. this bible was given by john rankin to his daughter-in-law, mary a. rankin, on her wedding day to his son. what is special about bibles like this is that they have a lot of family photographs in the back. there is also family records written within this. as we research through the bible, we hope to discover more about their role in the underground railroad in cincinnati and the family lineage that began with john rankin. the last item i would like to show you is our first edition book of "12 years a slave" by solomon northup. this is an early printing of the first edition. the book was so popular when it was published a second printing was made. that is what we are looking at here. solomon northup was a free man in the city of new york that was kidnapped and brought into t

harriet beecher stowe is another abolitionist. harriet beecher stowe was the woman who wrote "uncle tom's cabin." she gained her inspiration for the book while living in cincinnati. president lincoln actually is quoted as saying that she was the little woman that wrote a book that started a great war. on display, we have a first edition copy of "uncle tom's cabin." it is owned by the national underground railroad freedom center. it was published in 1852 and became a bestseller. it is printed in tens of different languages. "uncle tom's cabin" had a huge impact on the country when it was published. for the first time, many americans were learning the horrors of slavery, something they had never heard before. as lincoln said, it was a book that started a war. this grave marker is one of the new additions. it is the original grave marker for salmon p. chase. salmon chase was an influential abolitionist, anti-slavery lawyer, politician, judge throughout his career. he advocated for the rights of african-americans. salmon chase preside

was an abolitionist in ripley, ohio. he helped hide slaves in his home and on his property as they escaped from the state of kentucky over the ohio river into the state of ohio. he would then move them farther north, ultimately, on their way to canada. this bible was given by john rankin to his daughter-in-law, ankin, on her wedding day to his son. what is special about bibles have ais is that they lot of family photographs in the back. there is family records written within this. as research through the bible, we hope to discover more about their role in the underground railroad in cincinnati and the family lineage that began with john rankin. the last item i would like to show you is our first edition book of "12 years a slave" by solomon northup. this is an early printing of the first edition. the book was so popular when it was first published a second printing was made. that is what we are looking at here. solomon northup was a free man in the city of new york that was kidnapped and brought into the south several ti

>> i don't have -- she was an abolitionist, she was an abolitionist but i don't have letters from her along those lines and it didn't seem to be a major issue with her. to her, i am saying. there were quite a few -- there was a woman named josephine -- >> i'm talking about clara barton. >> she was an abolitionist. it was a cause she was concerned about, but wasn't her major how occupation. yes. yes. >> thank you for speaking. i wondered how you got access to all these letters. was that difficult? >> we have the manuscript division of the library of congress and that is a good place to go. when i did family matters it was much harder for a couple reasons. we were dealing in the 18th-century, not the nineteenth and also a lot of people felt that i was the mere journalist and what was i doing rooting around in history? i am supposed to deal with today. people were not as forthcoming as they became after that book came out. once i published, started getting more help from historical societies, university libraries and historic homes. the library of congress was always helpful so that is,

it is the abolitionist movement of the 20th century. great quote for you the socialist movement is the abolitionist movement of the 20th century. the trajectory of american radicalism. in new york city, not only on the lower east side but also yorkville, upper east side which was heavily german population at the time and even in other districts, a full, vibrant socialist counterculture developed. something like goodwin talks about based on massive labor unrest. the strikes a 20,000 women garment workers in 1919. male cloak workers. and many other strikes in new york city which became outpourings of communities of community support. a description of 1916, the streetcar drivers went on strike in new york city. we had been crisscrossed with the streetcars before building the subway. the parade of striking streetcar workers from uptown yorkville like 86 and lexington down to union square, 14th street. as they left yorkville, relatives and friends cheered for two hours. great lines lined at madison. it reached the cloak of making district an

that he had, if you will, sentiments of an abolitionist nature. he was watched and the bounty hunter's new. they were waiting for him when he got the -- got to the district line. from a local newspaper, from the very month and year, circumstances have occurred to fan the excitement in the city. an evolutionist by the name of -- an abolitionist by the name of william chaplin has seduced two slaves brought here by mrs. from congressvens and was in the act of carrying them off sometime during the last week but mr. garter of the police, suspecting his attentions, overhaul the carriage and after several shots had been fired. let me just see -- say parenthetically, he had no gun. they had to build it up. they had to build it up. which was returned by the police, riddling the carriage. chaplin and one of his slaves were arrested and brought back to washington where they were thrown into prison. here from a daily union, and local washington, d.c. paper, august 15, 1850. another case, some six weeks ago, three slaves brought to the city by a member of cong

that he had, if you will, sentiments of an abolitionist nature. he was watched and the bounty hunters knew. they were waiting for him when he got to the district line. from a local newspaper, from the very month and year, circumstances have occurred to fan the excitement in the city. an abolitionist by the name of william chaplin has seduced two slaves brought here by mrs. toombs and stevens from congress and was in the act of carrying them off sometime during the last week but mr. garter of the police, suspecting his intentions overhauled the , carriage and after several shots had been fired. let me just see -- say parenthetically, he had no gun. but they had to build it up. they had to build it up. which was returned by the police, riddling the carriage. chaplin and one of his slaves were arrested and brought back to washington where they were thrown into prison. the other slave escaped into the woods but has since returned wounded to his master. we jump down here to the "daily " a localos washington, d.c. paper, august 15, 1850. another case, s

because you said all abolitionists, whether they were, you know, frederick douglass, or modern-day abolitionists like you, there is an emotional cost. you talked about... i didn't know that fredrick douglass had had a breakdown, an emotional breakdown. help us to understand, then. you know, because people are like, "i've got enough emotional stuff going on in my life. you want me to... i'm not going to go there." help us to understand why... >> well, you can see, my work is full of inspiration. you know, when we see people come out of slavery, which we see every week-- we see people coming out of slavery every week-- you can't feel anything but... >> hinojosa: i'm just... honestly, i'm stuck with that. i'm just like... every week you're able to document people getting out of slavery? >> yeah. we get photos being sent to us from all of our field offices if we're not there visiting. and people are, you know, saying, "look, here's a family who's out of slavery. here are 20 kids who are out of slavery." and i've got to say, you feel pretty good at the end of the week, right? but at the same time, yo

an abolitionist papers edited by the newspaper contains this. source.the original the building was just office of the patent office, which means it was not far from what we call the verizon center. a mighty throng is 6 -- throng is assembled. they were committed to prison, they were pardoned by president fillmore in 1852. the pearl of fair. this is the personal memoir where he wrote about it. we don't know the exact place that they sailed from. the pearl had been carrying coal. if you can imagine more than 70 women and children getting down into the hole of the ship. nothing but freedom would satisfy their thirst. next slide. he writes about how when they were wrought -- when they were brought back, the rage of them -- of the mob brought them in another direction. the mob accordingly, as the night came on the off this of the national era -- -- the office of the national era -- the man that wrote this document would never recover from the time he spent in the blue jug. and he would later commit suicide. were so many other people involved in getti

abolitionist in ohio. he held tight slaves in his home in on his property as they escaped on the state of kentucky over the ohio river into the state of ohio. he then would move them farther north, ultimately on their way to canada. the bible is given by john reagan to his daughter in law, nkin, on her wedding day to his son. about really special bibles like this is that they have a lot of family photographs in the back. there's also family records in this. thee researched through bible, we hope to discover more about the underground railroad and the city of cincinnati and the family lineage that began .ith reverend john rankin the last item i like to show you of 12 first edition book plates by solomon northrup. this is an early printing of the first edition. the book was so popular when it was published a second printing was made. that is what we're looking at here. solomon northrup was a free man in the city of new york that was kidnapped, brought into the south, sold several times as a slave. although t

and so among the blacks and the abolitionist whites tht overdue. but among a lot of whites they fear that this is the first shot in a slave rebelion. and that arthur was part of a slave rebelion in attacking mrs. thornton. and so when arthur turns himself in a few days later and says i have no memory of what happened, he is wisked off to jail, and a mob converges on the jail in downtown washington in judiciary square and tries to -- seeking to lynch arthur, demanding that he be turned over so that he can be hung on the spot. frances scott key comes to the defense at the jail and is trying to hold back the crowd. he is about to become overrun troops tunately the come in, march down pennsylvania avenue, surround the jail, and push the crowd back so that arthur will not be lynched. so order is only temporarily restored though, because the frustrated that they cannot get their hands on arthur, decide to turn their fury on every other free black person in town. so the mobs begin to split up and attack the people any black people who have property, the b

an abolitionist and the suffragist and a bomb tore basically, she was the first woman who had been allowed to report out of the capital press gallery before the war but she was soon kicked out of the capital press gallery because she wrote vicious truths. she actually wrote that daniel webster was drunk and the men were horrified. again i found it so recognizable because the same thing it happened when we women journalists started covering political campaigns. we got on the bus and the boys on the bus had taken a vow of america and we hadn't. we actually wrote on the campaign trail. i remember once coming back after some trip and i was on the brinkley showing i was the only woman. and i said something along the lines we do report everything that the candidate is up to. it's relevant and of course we tell the stories from the trail and a lot of our best friends are the other correspondence wives and his look of total terror. came over the guys faces and a timekeeper for the show said they were 45 solid minutes of silence. while they absorbed this piece of information in their work are women

among the blacks and abolitionist whites, this is the whites, among they fear this is the first shot and a slave rebellion. that arthur was part of a slave rebellion and attacking anna thornton, so when arthur turns himself in and says i have no memory of what happened. , and whisked off to jail the mop converges on the jail in downtown washington, judiciary square, and tries to lynch arthur, demanding that he be hung on the spot. francis scott key comes to the about to behe jail, overwhelmed, when the secretary of the navy calls in the federal troops. the troops marched on pennsylvania avenue, surrounded jail, and push the crowd back, and protect the jail so arthur will not be lynched. order is only temporarily restored because the mob, frustrated by the fact they could not get their hands on arthur, turn their fury on every other free black person in town. attackmops split up and split up and attacked black churches, black schools, black or houses, anyplace were black people gathered, the mops were going to destroy it, including first and foremost beverly snow's restaurant, the sym

he did not get reelected as mayor because he was too outspoken, especially because he was an abolitionist which was very important. this is right on the border of slave and free. he made a lot of enemies. ulysses was his older son and he worked with him in the tannery and hauling passengers and freight. jesse influenced everybody that he was around a couple of his personality. but i know ulysses was influenced very much by what jesse believed, and there are several people that grant, when he was a young boy, called .laves he help them escape up north. they had five children in addition to ulysses, but grant was the oldest boy so he got more things to do than the others. because he was such a good horseman he got to go on travels and hauling passengers and freight for his father. he went as far as toledo in a , non with no maps, no roads bridges. he had a lot more privileges than the others. there is one story that is very well known that influenced -- that made grant the kind of person he became, i really think. .e was 12 years old they were almost finished building a house and he was wal

one james -- who was an abolitionist and a suffragist and a bomb door basically but she was the first woman who had an allowed to report out of the capital press gallery. but she was soon kicked out of the capital press gallery because she wrote vicious truths she actually wrote the daniel webster was a drunk and a man were horrified. again i found is so recognizable because the same thing happens when the women journalists started covering political campaigns. got on the bus and the boys on the bus had taken that battle of all-america and we hadn't. we actually wrote on the campaign trail. i remember coming back after a trip that i was on and i was the only woman and i said something along the lines we do rip port what the candidate is up to. it's relevant and of course we tell stories from the trail and a lot of our best friends are the other correspondence lives. and that look of total terror. came over the guys faces and the timekeeper for the shows that there were 45 solid minutes of silence. [laughter] while they absorb this piece of information. and then there are women need to

he was a leading abolitionist. he never owned a slave. so if we're going to communicate our values worldwide, it seems surprising to many of us that hamilton would be diminished in a way, and the $20 bill would remain intact. >> yet in 2015 you do recognize that it's kind of high time we had a woman or at least recognize that half of our society is making a contribution to our national life, no? >> i agree, ray. we've been big cheerleaders and partners with barbara howard and susan stone with the work in the '20s and their success on hamilton on the 10s remain. the fact that there's a petition at 46,000 votes hopefully to your audience's reach we could day. >> are you surprised whether you hear american history spoken of, when you know how it's being tawd, that hamiltotaught, that t have the stature of washington, jackson, that set up an owner's manual for the country? >> ray that's one of the favorite questions ever asked. because for years the greatness of leamed hamilto alexander hamilton wasn't known. the aha society, i was a business

he became a leader abolitionist, ben franklin. people can change. on his deathbed he had written two wheels. we don't know what was in one. on his deathbed he asked both will be brought to him. he looked at them both and he tore up one and us that it be burned. he gave the other one, this is my will. that's the one that contains the freeing of the slaves. washington was a man of action, not of works. enough they believed, because this was, this act would send a message to the future. i don't think he wanted to go the wrong side of history. he wanted to send a message and that's how h

in fact, a party that was formed as an abolitionist party, a party that worked hard to get gun rights for friedman. a party that pushed civil rights and vote rights. >> here now, ebony williams, welcome both of you. good to see you. i think it's simple. i think republicans have failed, they make these very conservative promises. people's expectations go up. they're really going to do it this time and then they wimp out and back down. >> this is an increde bable opportunity. dr. carson's right. i think for the first time in a long time, they're the real chance here. i think many republicans said they felt it was a waste of time, but now, because the democrats have made it really easy. they're not particularly compelling. the state of america is in crisis. black employment, as high as ever. the crime in black communities, rampant. >> if you look at democratic breakouts of people who have supported obama, they are faired far worse under his policy, yet many support him. >> we can argue as to whether that's obama's fault, but that's over. put some specifics on the bones and really stick t

in fact, a party that was formed as an abolitionist party, a party that worked hard to get gun rights for friedman. a party that pushed civil rights and vote rights. >> here now, ebony williams, welcome both of you. good to see you. i think it's simple. i think republicans have failed, they make these very conservative promises. people's expectations go up. they're really going to do it this time and then they wimp out and back down. >> this is an increde bable opportunity. dr. carson's right. i think for the first time in a long time, they're the real chance here. i think many republicans said they felt it was a waste of time, but now, because the democrats have made it really easy. they're not particularly compelling. the state of america is in crisis. black employment, as high as ever. the crime in black communities, rampant. >> if you look at democratic breakouts of people who have supported obama, they are faired far worse under his policy, yet many support him. >> we can argue as to whether that's obama's fault, but that's over. put some specifics on the bones and really stick t

would you have rathered that the president and every state including those abolitionist states have stood there and taken it because it was the law of the land. do you think in any way, shape or form they had any right under the tenth amendment to stand on their ability as sovereign states in defieing that order in 1857? >> no, i think if you want to defie and order of the supreme court, you do what martin luther king did. you go to jail. or you do it conscientious objectives do. you don't serve in the army. the one thing you can't do, you can be the agree to serve in the army if you're a conscientious objector and then refuse an order. she should resign from her job because she can't fulfill her job. she should take another job. a job that dunt require her to vie wlat the law. that would be the prince 38 thing to do. but it is not principle to say that she is allowed an exception under the constitution to follow the law of the land. under dread scott, we needed to fight a civil war. that's not the paradigm. >> mr. derchowitz, you've understood very well. you understand very well when i a

there were others who were anti-slavery to the extent they were neo-abolitionists. the problem is it was breaking him, he was going bankrupt over the slavery issue. he could not figure out what to do, because he was hemorrhaging money. he transformed mount vernon from the tobacco culture into a wheat -producing operation on five farms close to 10,000 acres. they were not growing tobacco. very minimally. it was too labor intensive. he had too many slaves to grow the crops he was growing. he would not sell them because he would not break up families. that were probably three or four times as many slaves as he needed to run the place efficiently. he entertained ideas of bringing to split upusbandry the farms and have them rent or purchase with the idea of abolishing slavery on the plantation as a whole. he could not do this when he was president because he knew it would be such a political issue that it would likely doom the democratic experiment at its outset. yes, ma'am? >> you sort of talked about all these people being giants, talking about what kind of government

formi informing they will about the history of the gop in fact a party that was formed as an abolitionist party a party that worked hard to get gun rights for freedman a party that pushed civil rights and voting rights. >> here now with cox news c -- news con train but >> i think republicans have failed they make these very conservative promises, people's expectations go up. okay they have to do it this time. they wimp out and they back down. >> this is an incredible opportunity. doctor carson is right. there's a real chance here. many republicans in the past felt like it was a waste of their time. democrats made it very easily. they are not compelling the fate of black america is in crisis black unemployment is as high as it has ever been. >> isn't it amazing you look at the democratic breakouts they have fared far worse under his policies than anybody else. many still support them. >> we can argue the mayor says it is obama's fault or not. i think it would be smart of the gop to take the opportunity to put specifics on the bones and police outta agenda. >> mercedes that came out in 2014

there were others who were anti-slavery to the extent that abolitionist-. the problem here is he was going bankrupt over the slavery issue. he could not figure out what to do. this was the way that slavery operated here. he transformed mount vernon heate early into a w producing operation. they were not going to tobacco minimally. it was very labor intensive. he had to any slaves to grow the cops that he was going. he would not sell them because he would not break up families. times theprobably 3-4 number of slaves to run the place efficiently. farms with the the idea of abolishing slavery on the plantation as a whole. he could not do this when he was president because he knew it .ould be such a political issue >> you sort of talked about what kind of government we would have, but how is the average man looking at this. how involved were they in this dialog? mr. heidler: i think the average american could go months at a time not thinking about washington, madison, or jefferson. the government was so far , exceptfrom their lives for when they loaded up there

lincoln, the republican party was born of a merger of the old whig party of landed wealth with the abolitionists. today is the republican party still has the whig crowd. it's got the red hots champion by donald trump and dr. ben carson. people haven't been identified really as members of the republican party. this is the divorce we're watching right now. look at the polls. a bit more than half the people who do i.d. or vote as republicans are dumping the whigs out the backdoor. jeb bush is getting 6. ers right now. that's less than one in 16 republicans ready to keep their stock in the old party establishment. there's nothing quite like this happening in the democratic party. yes, senator bernie sanders is getting big audiences and doing well. the party is still a political party. it's a question of who gets to carry out the democratic mission. meanwhile what's happening in had the a part of lincoln, what came together to form a major political party is now clearly coming apart. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> tonight on all in

mary's parents were abolitionists and their home was a stop on the underground railroad providing shelter and a hideout for escaped slaves on their way to freedom in canada. mary had four sisters and a younger brother and they all worked on the farm. as a teenager, mary grew fascinated by her father's medical books and spent time with neighbors who were very ill so she could observe their symptoms. in 1853, mary was accepted at syracuse medical college, one of the very few medical schools that admitted women then. harvard medical school, founded 70 years before syracuse medical college did not admit women until 1945. that's how difficult it has been historically for women to become doctors in this country. one of the great american freedom movements that has faded from our collective memory was dress reform. mary in mary walker's day, a woman could actually get arrested for dressing like this. in fact, mary walker was arrested many times for wearing pants, and she was charged with impersonating a man. her parents were bold believers in practical clothing for their daughters working with o

the own slaves when he does yorker, became a leader at leading abolitionists, people can change. washington couldn't change that much but on his deathbed he had written two wills. we don't know what was in one. on his deathbed he asked both wills be brought to him. he looked at them both, he tore up one and asked it be burned and gave the other one, this is my will and that contains the freeing of the slaves. remember what i said in the beginning, washington was a man of action, not of words. he must have believed, because this was, that this act would send a message to the future. i don't think he wanted to be on the wrong side of history. he wanted to send a message and that is how he did is we have time for one more. unfortunately i don't have any time. thank you so much for coming. it has been a delight to be here. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> is there a nonfiction author or balky would like to see featured on booktv? send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org, tweet us at booktv or post on our wall facebook.com/booktv. [inaudible conversations]

states rights yes and free trade, the insult of abolitionists the south loss of his dominance over the federal government and the economy's addiction to slavery all drove the southerners toward secession. amid the turmoil the extremists played off each other so effectively that the voice of the moderation the voices of the majority on each side were lost and to an amazing extent have remained obscure to many americans ever since. and yet as counsel bunch saw a perfect way clearly because it was stated perfectly clearly by the powerful people he knew both privately and publicly and indeed was stated in the ordinance of secession for almost every one of the confederate states ultimately there was no question that the south seceded to defend slavery and the north went to war to stop secession. this is a simple concept. you can reduce it to 140 characters. the next time you see anybody or hear anybody say the war was not about slavery you can tweak that out. the south seceded to defend slavery in the north went to war to stop secession. that's what the civil war was about. there should be

like the story of frederick douglass he becomes free, he becomes an abolitionist. when he teaches himself how to read and write that is his freedom. then he can start challenging what folks are telling him. then he starts to be part of this underground railroad himself. he comes to cincinnati at least once. he talks about the story of the power of education. it is the power of understanding you can challenge authority by empowering yourself, you have to understand that contrary diction, struggle and perseverance as part of your life. >> lewis was very much an interesting man he actually ends up in boston. when he and suppan boston he's helping people with the underground railroad. his home is still there today. one of the interesting things is slave catchers are coming to his home. he says okay come get me but look under my porch. it was full of dynamite. you come up on my property and we are all gone. there are some very interesting stories that came out like that. but there also some other stories like john p parker. parker is a young man who is enslaved and is s

in fact instead of counting by countries, which is what the abolitionist normally do, and just say look there is a hampel left. you can buy people. now more than half the people in the world live in countries that have the death penalty. china, i don't think it's necessarily going to help my argument that much. >> .. and insisting on the necessity of generally deferring to democratic outcomes. was the response of the critics to impose the european conception of honor and dignity which they just embraced in their new right to be forgotten? the u. s has a different tradition which favors free speech which would be democratic values. >> very few would just say let's go see what they decide, whatever they decide we will adopt. that is not how it works. it is more likely that a case will come up and i spent a lot of time going into the history of one interesting and important part of the constitutional decisionsmaking in our court, a little unusual but important. what happens in wartime or times of security? emergency, when in fact the government, abraham lincoln perhaps or woodrow wilson or

and she called on a history that dates back to the 1800ss with words spoken by the abolitionist harriet tubman. >> in my mind, i see a line, and over that line, i see greenfields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line. but i can't seem to get there no how. i can't seem to get over that line. >> reporter: but davis was using tubman's words to illustrate lack of opportunities in the movie industry for african american women today saying. >> you cannot win an emmy for roles that are simply not there. >> reporter: to pursue that further, we met up with a man who's been involved in looking at just that issue over time. he's darnell hunt, chair of the department of sociology at u.c.l.a., and the head of its ralph bunch center for african american studies. professor darnell hunt, thank you for joining us. >> i'm glad to be here. >> reporter: the other night at the emmy awards, viola davis seems to have really struck a nerve, which coin sides, incidentally, with the research you've been doing. tell us a little bit about what she had to sa

millennial scrub learned about the abolitionist slave trade in the school, harriet tubman, the civil rights marches of the 20th century, now so many of us are scandalized and outraged by the fact that little human beings are being heard, killed, and sold every day in the land of the freeze in the home of the brave, by planned parenthood. the surgical abortion clinic just a few miles away in downtown washington d.c., planned parenthood's flagship location in the capital of our free country is one of the locations recently partnered with a biotech company to harvest and sell baby body parts. in the same city where the declaration of independence safeguards the rights of human beings, the same city where abraham lincoln governed a free country to bring liberty to human beings that were true like property. in the same city, little human beings are still being bought and sandad. washington dt a. is not the only place where planned parenthood has sandad aborted baby parts. to bom the past seven years. in that time, planned parenthood has been harvesting baby parts in california, texas, mic

she is the first nonwhite actress to claim that prize referring to the abolitionist harriet tubman in her acceptance speech saying you cannot win emmys with roles that are not there. >> jon hamm broke his string of bad luck, crawling onto the stage from his front row seat nominations, finally winning for his iconic part in "mad men." and "game of thrones" took the prize for best drama series setting anew record for most emmy wins ever. the sci-fi series earning 12 awards this year beat ago "the you love this show. >> i do love the show. i'm sure many of the fellow fans are trying to see if the actor who plays john snow was on stage. if that might be one clue that he's really not dead because we know he's not dead. we know that that was just fake blood at the end of the season. no, he's coming back. he's been spotted in dublin. they're shooting. >> okay. we're going to take your word for it. if it doesn't happen, we're coming to get you. >> we'll see. >>> a big night for ""veep," winning top comedy series. writer and supporter actor awards also. star julia louis-dreyfus has made her fo

, so you have to figure out how to read and write and he talks in his narrative he becomes free and abolitionists when he teaches himself how to read and write. that's his freedom because then he can start challenging but folks are telling them in his mind and then he starts to be part of the underground railroad himself. he comes to cincinnati one and talks about the story of the power education for african-americans and it's the power of understanding you can challenge authority by empowering yourself you have to understand the contradiction struggle and perseverance in your life. >> lewis is very much an interesting man. he ends up in boston. his helping people escape the underground railroad and becomes involved in massachusetts and the film is still there today. one of the interesting things and look under my porch. there were some interesting stories that came out, the u.s. stories the parker, a young man enslaved and float away from his mother when he was eight years old. he changes his life and he fights through the likes area and begins to help other people like that. he has a novel call

>> i don't have -- she was an abolitionist, she was an abolitionist but i don't have letters from her along those lines and it didn't seem to be a major issue with her. to her, i am saying. there were quite a few -- there was a woman named josephine -- >> i'm talking about clara barton. >> she was an abolitionist. it was a cause she was concerned about, but wasn't her major how occupation. yes. yes. >> thank you for speaking. i wondered how you got access to all these letters. was that difficult? >> we have the manuscript division of the library of congress and that is a good place to go. when i did family matters it was much harder for a couple reasons. we were dealing in the 18th-century, not the nineteenth and also a lot of people felt that i was the mere journalist and what was i doing rooting around in history? i am supposed to deal with today. people were not as forthcoming as they became after that book came out. once i published, started getting more help from historical societies, university libraries and historic homes. the library of congress was always helpful so that is,

. >> she also quoted abolitionist harriet tubman and thanked other ground breaking actresses. after 16 nominations in his career, jon hamm finally wins for his role as don draper on madmen. he got a standing ovation, and he flopped his way onto the stage. but perhaps one of the biggest surprises and emotional moments of the night belonged to tracy morgan presenting the outstanding drama award to game of thrones. >> i miss you guys so much. last year jim hawaii kimmel said -- jimmy kimmel said on the stage, we'll see you back here, tracy morgan. >> he showed his sense of humor was still very much intact. >> only recently i've started to feel like myself again, which means a whole lot of women are afterparty. [laughter] speech. >> he just got married! >> yeah, yeah. and then we're taking a look at julia louis-dreyfus because she won for the forty year in -- fourth year in a row for veep. they also won best comedy series. also winning big was olive kitteridge. >> who's that? >> i mean, they won everything in the limited series category, best actress -- >> what does that mean? >>

and the theory now is that that arose because the hardings were very fervent abolitionists and had worked on the underground railroad. and when you did that, then people started rumors about you. and the rumors would be that the hardings were part black. and these rumors were floating around. one of the reasons why amos kling doesn't want her daughter marrying harding i think is he -- he doesn't trust her judgment in men, particularly after the first marriage. but also he believes that harding is part black and he's pretty vociferous about it. and i won't repeat his language but he goes all around town saying what he thinks warren harding is. finally, he gets used to harding, but these stories don't go away and there's a fellow named chancellor, who's a distinguished fellow, professor, graduate of amherst, went to all sorts of colleges, ran the dc school district at one time. kathrine sibley: a historian even. david pietrusza: yes, a historian and author, a very, very big publisher of, respectable books but a thoroughgoing racist. he switches from republican to progressive, to democrat. h