We have to oppose the extension of the savory slavery. The immigrant societies formed in the north. They would give money to fund immigrants. They did something comparable. They have an advantage because kansas territory was right next to missouri as a slave state. And the missourians the board into kansas and they would destroy the free state settlement. The idea was to make kansas unfriendly. This is where john brown comes in. By this time almost as committed to the antislavery cause. Theyre not initially can it take up arms. They said bob you bobby should come join us. He is increasingly distressed at the failure of the to actually frustrate the proslavery courses. They seem to be rolling right over physically over the antislavery side. He needs to take strong action to send a message to the pro slavery side. They descend on aim proslavery settlement and they drag five men close savory slavery settlers and just outside the cabins where they are living there right off into the night.
No. Hello and welcome to the other talk series. And virginia prescott and the host to deny the conversation with some fine about the zealot and the emancipator john brown and the struggle for american freedom. Theres a link to the right of your screen or you can go to the link provided at the History Centers web site. As we are talking please submit your questions with the q a feature at the bottom of the screen. Not the chat, just the q a. Tends to get less credit that when i will try to integrate as many of them into the conversation as they can. H. W. Brands is the chair of the university of houston and offered some 30 books on u. S. History month in the First Americans biography for pulitzer prize. Bill brands thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. Abraham lincoln and john brown wellknown historians. What did you want to add to the understanding of these famous american martyrs really by writing this . I think teaching American History for 35 going on 40 years a
Pg e cuts the power, so when a Business Owner tries to do the right thing by turning on his generator, coming up, the cautionary tale that ends with a bigger loss. Crews in Solano County monitoring the fire situation after hundreds of acres went up in flames. Ill show you what it looked like. Fire danger remains elevated. The holidays are on the horizon and food bandank banks desperate. 345,000 pg e customers had their power cut as the utility tried to prevent wildfires, but we are not out of the woods yet when it comes to the fire danger, because the red flag warning has now been extended. Well begin our coverage with meteorologist sandhya patel. Critically dry conditions continue. Take a look at the wind gusts right now. The diablo winds still going, not as strong as they were 24 hours ago. 22 at knoxville creek. So were still watching very dry conditions, antioch, fairfield, 15 in napa. That red flag warning for the east bay hills and Solano County. Gust 5060 Miles Per Hour not out
Pg e cuts the power, so when a Business Owner tries to do the right thing by turning on his generator, coming up, the cautionary tale that ends with a bigger loss. Crews in Solano County monitoring the fire situation after hundreds of acres went up in flames. Ill show you what it looked like. Fire danger remains elevated. The holidays are on the horizon and food bandank banks desperate. 345,000 pg e customers had their power cut as the utility tried to prevent wildfires, but we are not out of the woods yet when it comes to the fire danger, because the red flag warning has now been extended. Well begin our coverage with meteorologist sandhya patel. Critically dry conditions continue. Take a look at the wind gusts right now. The diablo winds still going, not as strong as they were 24 hours ago. 22 at knoxville creek. So were still watching very dry conditions, antioch, fairfield, 15 in napa. That red flag warning for the east bay hills and Solano County. Gust 5060 Miles Per Hour not out
The flames. At one point powerful winds pushed smoke into contracosta county. It took views about two hours to get control of the area. Winds were Strong Enough to take someones backyard trampoline over the fence. Fremont Police Tweeted this picture as a reminder to secure things in your yard. Pg es website shows all the places where the power is out now. And recently released updates from the Utility Company indicate it could stay out longer than originally expected. The purple triangles on this map youre looking at indicate a Public Safety power shutoff. San francisco is the only bay area county not affected. The north bay is bearing the brun of all this. About 25,000 customers are without power in Sonoma County alone. Along with nearly 14,000 in marin county, 11,000 in napa and about 1,500 in Solano County. In the east bay there are roughly 16,000 customers without power in both alameda and contracosta counties. Santa clara county and san mateo counties also have a number of custome