Sources, secondary sources, and they are thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history, as related to an annual theme. This year, the theme is triumph and tragedy in history. So we have had conflict and compromise, taking a stand, all kinds of different angles and perspectives for kids to look at, but this year it is triumph and tragedy. They have been choosing topics that range from indian treaties to world war ii, to helen keller, partition of india, you name it. They are choosing really fascinating, interesting topics. Then they present their findings in different formats area of format. S. Of course, one of the categories you see behind me, that is the exhibit category. Then there is also paper category, and dramatic performance, documentary, or website. History day gives kids an opportunity to be creative in the way in which they present their information. Then they enter at a local level competition. Students who win move up to the state level of competition. And then the winners come here to the national event. About 600,000 kids participate at the first level. That is at every state, d. C. , and the territories, and we are going quickly out internationally. Then they come here and there are about 3000 students here this week competing for the top honors. So we recorded at some of the recorded some of the performances today. So what are the parameters for a performance . What do they have to do . Cathy so poor performance categories, like the students in any other category, they first have to do the research. Good, Solid Research into primary and secondary sources. Going into the museums, lets say it is a civil rights topic, they will maybe find someone to do an interview with. Basically, the research, that historical quality, the information and the evidence, everyone has to do that. Then they have to think about that information in relationship to their theme, triumph and tragedy in history, and determine why that topic is important, significant in history. What kind of change did it cause . Why should we care about this . And then, finally, they present their information. So they can choose any category and the students who choose performance, i think really have to want to be up in front of a lot of people. They tend to be little hams sometimes. But sometimes there are kids who are rather shy but they can turn into somebody else and really kind of take over the whole room with their presence. But it is 10 minutes, and 10 minutes is a long time. It doesnt sound like it, but when you are standing up in front of judges, 10 minutes is a long time. On the other hand, it is a short amount of time if you have done massive amounts of research and you just want to tell everybody every single thing you know. Usually that is what they want to do, but they cant. The reason we have the time limit or like in exhibits it is a word limit is to help students be concise, to learn how to decide what information should be presented and what and still what can they leave out and still tell the story and still provide the evidence and the analysis . It is hard. History is not easy. Hi, my name is kira warren. I am jada hendrickson. I am caitlin gordon. We will be presenting a performance called from the tragedy of slavery to the triumph of freedom the story of Harriet Ann Jacobs. To be a slave girl is a curse, but to have beauty is even worse. Constantly beaten, bruised, and raped. This made it hard to keep the faith and our work wasnt in the cotton we picked or the tasks we were given, but in our breeding ability to produce more children. The cycle was vicious in many different ways. Along with the sacrifices, we had to each day, we were literally bound by chains to waiting to finally escape this pain. Africanamerican slavery was one of the most tragic stains on American History. Beginning in 1619, america went into a culture of torturing, raping, beating, and murdering African Americans for centuries until the civil war in 1865. Harriet ann jacobs was a victim of these tragedies. She constantly suffered from Sexual Harassment and lived in fear of what her master would do to her. She escaped from a plantation. When she escaped she hid in her grandmothers attic, where she she lived in fear for 7 years. I was born in a slave family. To me, it was filled with glee, but i never would have imagined my future would be filled with such misery. I lost what i had and it was gone. I started to feel like i couldnt move on. My parents and mistress died and i was sold to an abusive master. At this point, my life was a real disaster. Nine years later, i finally turned 15, but my master decided to try and take my purity. He came up to me and whispered foul things in my ear that no innocent young girl should ever have to hear. In 1813, Harriet Ann Jacobs was born to enslaved parents, delila and Daniel Jacobs in north carolina. She was so sheltered as a child that she didnt realize she was a slave until she was six years old when her mother perished. Soon after, harriets mothers mistress took care of her until the mistress died also. Now 12 years old, harriet was then passed on to her mistresses iece, which gave the father, dr. Flynn, ultimate ownership. When harriet finally turned 15, dr. Flynn started sexually harassing her and commanded that she belonged to him in every way, shape, and form. Harriet, your body is ready for me now to have you. No, master, im not ready. I dont know what you want me to do. I own every part of your body and i will do with it what i do with it as i please. Besides, after a while, you will start to enjoy it. I am building a cottage so we wont be disturbed. Once the cottage is ready, you will be ready. No, master, i dont want no cottage. I dont want you. While still being sexually harassed by dr. Flynn, harriet met a few black men and fell in love. When dr. Flynn found out, harriets circumstances became worse. Harriet, you will never get away from my grasp. You are mine and if i see him on my property, i will shoot him dead. After all i have done for you, you ungrateful wench, be gone. I cant believe master just hit me. He has never done this before. He keeps harassing me hour after hour, day after day, year after year. He harasses me and is hunting for my innocence and he wont stop. There have been so many restless nights when i have been thinking about what he can do to me next and sometimes i just want to end it all. I mustnt lose hope. There is mr. Sawyer and he has been very compassionate towards me. He could be my ticket to freedom. Within a few months of meeting with mr. Sawyer, harriet discovered her plan had worked and she became pregnant with their first child. Her grandmother never tolerated this behavior and was so appalled by harriets decisions, she then banished harriet from ever coming back to her house. I have nowhere to go and im not going back to masters house. I need to confess to grandmother and tell her about all of the things he has been doing to me. Maybe she will understand and help me. [knocking] grandmother, grandmother please please. E door, what, child . How dare you come here after you betrayed me . I know you are upset, but there is something that i must tell you. All of the lessons you and mother taught me about being a good woman and respecting myself goes away when i am there. Ever since i turned 15, dr. Flynn has tried to make sexual advances toward me. He thinks he can have me whenever he wants. I thought if i got pregnant by another man he would lose interest in me and would finally sell me. But that just made everything so much worse. Please forgive me. I would do anything to obtain your forgiveness. Please forgive me on behalf of my dad and mother. My child, poor child. I understand now. I will help you and your children. After two years and having her second child with mr. Sawyer, harriet was work as at the plantation instead of a house lady. She decided this was enough and began to plot her escape. She stayed with a nearby friend until it was unsafe for her to stay there anymore. She hid in a swamp until her grandmothers attic was ready for her to hide in. Grandmother, grandmother. Is the attic ready for me yet . Yes, we added a trapdoor so we could bring you through. Remember, it will be hard not seeing your children and being in that confined space. I know, grandmother. I will miss them very much but i will do anything to leave that behind and most of all, get away from mr. Flynn. Not much older, harriet found many hobbies to do while living in the attic, such as reading, writing, and sewing. This did not make the conditions any better. Living in this box is not like nightmares of being a slave. It is hard to move and i cannot stand up fully, but at least i can rest assured that they will never find me. I do want to see my childrens smiling faces. I want to teach them wrong from right. I want to tell them they are more than a piece of property and they dont belong to anyone but i cant because that could risk their safety and that would be the last thing i would want to do. During the day, i suffer from scorching heat and bugs with needles that cause my body to burn. During the night, i suffer from cold, howling winds. Living in this attic makes me feel as though as i was suffocating. I suffered for air more than light and the only thing that comforted me were my childrens voices that come in. While still living in the attic, harriet started to suffer from the conditions of the weather and lost strength and her legs. In 1842, she had an epiphany. I have been in this box for seven years. I do believe it is 1842 and today is the day i shall escape. I arrived in philadelphia with the land and for a new life i shall not cry. I got news my daughter was in new york. When i went to see her, she was busy with work. Finally, when we got a chance to speak, i could only look at her physique because deep down i knew she looked exactly like me. I started to go see her every week but i had to know that she was not mine to keep because i was still a fugitive but i could not lose my positivity. After her, i left to find joseph. Leaving my children left me broken but i was set on getting my freedom as that was my motive. I started to focus only on my writing. Frederick douglass took it to liking and he invited me to work at the northstar. From this point, i went very far. I eventually gained my freedom and my children and publish my book about my pain and suffering. At last, i am free and no longer scared of the future. Harrient ann jacobs was very profound africanamerican slave during that time. She was an astonishing example of a brave, and powerful woman. She proved this by fighting for what she believed in and fighting for her freedom. This is also why she decided to displays her tragedies and as a triumph by writing her autobiography. This had an effect on many abolitionists. Harriet ann jacbos used work with many abolitionists, such as Susan B Anthony and Harriet Beecher stowe to tell the story about how a woman was sexually violated and mistreated during the slavery era. Harriet ann jacobs used her freedom to educate themselves. Harriet ann jacobs used her freedom to open up schools and orphanages. 82 of the Human Trafficking community are females. 40 are africanamericans. , as is similar to slavery young girls are being put in a situation where they have to give their bodies away or they get abused or even worse, killed. Use ofows how the africanamerican has evolved since slavery. Thank you for viewing our performance. [applause] how did you come up with the idea for your performance . Trip to the Atlanta History Center where we found a unique story about harriet jacobs, a slave who was getting in hery abused who hid grandmothers attic for seven years where there were bugs and roaches. She could not see her children which was heartbreaking. Those are your children and you cant see them. Once we found out we were going to do the topic, we found an autobiography written by her and that give us insight and help us write a script because it put us in her position so that we could feel all of the emotions she was feeling at that time. Do you learn stories like this at school . Not at all because that is why it was so fascinating because we had never heard it before. Learning how to read and write from age six and just taking that and becoming completely knowledgeable. We were reading some of the letters between her and the andon who edited her books in the letter it was talking jacobs wasarriet ann so well written and spoken that the book did not need much editing, considering that she was a slave and taking literal knowledge and building on top of it is just amazing. It is an inspiring story for young women like us to know because it shows how you can overcome a terrible situation. Graphic of it are very about how she was abused. Why did you decide to put that into your performance . Why was that important . Because many people dont really know about the tragic things that happened in slavery and they dont know the truth about what happened. They only know about how people were being slaves to grow crops for other people and that was mostly it. They didnt know about the background. We wanted to share that with people to know. We wanted to make it as realistic as possible because there is no reason to sugarcoat the horrifying effects of slavery. At the time, people heard about slavery through a male perspective and didnt hear about it through a female perspective and her ranching out and saying this information really horrified a lot of people because she could get away and others couldnt which led to tragic event. Plans forof you have the future to be historians . After this project, i am thinking about it. It is so fun to go back in time and explore the unknown. Finally, why should people your age no stories like this . One, you need to know about your history. If you dont, you are bound to repeat it. Number two, she was amazing. She was pretty much one of the kickstarters for a bunch of other abolitionists who freed slaves to write books themselves and tell about everything that happened. She helped in savannah. She worked with Frederick Douglass for a little bit and she whats that word encouraged free slaves to educate themselves as well. It is so disappointing that more people dont know about her story. I feel like it should be told how she overcame everything she was going through. Most people dont know about stories like this so we wanted to share and empower young women like us. Something bad happens now, people are quick to give up. Timess shot down so many and had to give her body to random men at the age of 15 years old. Get away from the sexual abuse she was receiving. It was amazing how she didnt give up. Himcould have submitted to but she didnt and she left. And also stories like this also are important because they lead to todays tragic events about sexual trafficking. We also had a young lady who went to our school we knew and she went missing and now she is suspected of being kidnapped for sexual trafficking. The story really hit home for us. You can watch archival films on Public Affairs each week on our series railamerica saturday america p. M. Real saturday on history tv. Here is a look at one of our recent programs. Doshi . Was ru inshe was a woman kidnapped and survived. Believed she was kidnapped and enslaved from 12 years old. See, ahe film we are to brief glimpse of her and her name in the film is sally smith. Can you explain . Man andas bought by a he gave her his name and it that other survivors were bought by him and given his name. To and is is diminutive and is a name you gave for a child or a slave are an animal. Lotilde . Was the cult was for many years than twod it less months ago. Many survivors from the community were descendents still to that day. Why did you spend so much time researching it and why is it important for our audience to understand who she was . Doing aally, i was learned from scholars and colleagues just how there was no firsthand account. I happened to find her name and i knew she existed. When i happened upon her name, i find more to try and and found much more than i expected. We can never imagine what it mustve been like to have been taken across the atlantic and stolen from your homeland. It is important to reflect on and hear the voices of those who endured it. Workersver 30 years, have labored to eradicate these evils. , it has growngo into an extensive service. This map shows the work among the girls in 1937. In 1937,the this map shows this. Worn in africa and long past her 110thear when she died year when she died. Help negrospaign to help themselves. You can watch archival films in their entirety on our weekly , saturday atmerica 10 00 p. M. And sunday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern here on American History tv. Tonight on q a, theoretical physicist and author of the future of humanity talks about our destiny beyond earth and achieving digital immortality. Takesital immortality everything known about you on the internet, your digital footprint, your credit card records, what movies you see, what wine you like to buy and countries you visit, videos, pictures, audio tapes and creates a digitized file that will last forever. When you go to the library of the future, you will not take out a book about winston churchill, you will talk to winston churchill. Tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans q a. Next on American History tv, three historians present talks about the concept of the deep state in American History and political debate, generally are going is not a new idea. Topics range from recent books about an alleged deep state to president eisenhower in the program is part of the society for historians of American Foreign relations annual conference. Good morning, everybody. And welcome to the society for historians of American Foreign relations 2019 conference on this, the longest day of the year. Hopefully this panel will not be the longest panel of the year. Historyu. S. Military and Foreign Policy the university of texas at austin. Im pleased to be chairing this panel today on the deep state. Joining me here to talk about i think this quite important topic are three fantastic historians, all of whom study politics and power in American History. Professor beverly of young university