Thanks for being with us on cspan3s American History tv and let me begin with that question. Who was redoshi . Well, redoshi was a west african born women who very sadly was kidnapped in 1860 and is believed to be the last as far as we can tell, the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. Its believed that she was yoruba, she was kidnapped in a slave raid. Possibly as young as 12 years old and she was taken. In the film, which we are about to see, just a brief glimpse of her and her name in the film is sally smith. Can you explain . Yes, so she was bought by a name called washington smith and he gave her his name, it appears that four survivors were bought by him and they all were given his name basically. And sally i guess its a diminutive, its sort of a name that you give to a child or to an animal, sort of his way of dehumanizing. And what was the clotillda . It was the last slave ship to reach the u. S. It was in 1860. It was for many years dismissed as a hoax, but archeolo
Glimpse of her and her name in the film is sally smith. Can you explain . Yes, so she was bought by a name called washington smith and he gave her his name, it appears that four survivors were bought by him and they all were given his name basically. And sally i guess its a diminutive, its sort of a name that you give to a child or to an animal, sort of his way of dehumanizing. And what was the clotillda. It was the last slave ship to reach the u. S. It was in 1860. It was for many years dismissed as a hoax, but archeologists actually discovered it in mobile bay just less than two months ago. Many of the survivors formed their own community in mobile known as africa town. Their descendants still live there today. And when you heard about that discovery in mobile, alabama, what was your initial thought and what can we learn from its artifacts . Yeah, well, its so important. It validates the experiences of survivors of the cotilda, it validates the stories of their descendants. Its a Poo
Lives to securing better world for all. Substance of america. We have another army. Producing weapons and fighting. Behind all these stand america. And the men who grow our food, produce vital materials that this land may remain free. This is the story of one such american farmer. This is farmer henry browne, age 38. Father of three children. This year, henry browne is growing more on the farm than ever before. To get work done, he and his family have to be up. This year, for the first time, they have a cow. Young henry is raising the calf on his own. He is raising 20 hens. Last year, it was the same thing for breakfast. It did not build strong, healthy body. Young henry does like grass. He has begun to fill out. Father has plenty to do today. Not that every farmer does not always have 20 of work. But, this year is different. The government men said we needed more fats and oils. Farmer browne planted 15 acres of peanuts. A good farmer with respect for his land. The country will benefit
Taking their argument today. Good morning. Its sunday, september 17th. Im stephanie sierra. We begin with the weather and lisa is here with a look at the forecast. Yeah, it is cloudy out there. It feels kind of muggy. Temperatures are in the 60s and we are looking at a lot of cloud cover today. Sort of overtaking parts of the bay area to 63 in hayward as well as fremont. Right now, 60 in santa rosa, just a quarter mile visibility half moon bay. And as we look outside from our exploratorium camera, its gray temperatures will climb through the 60s by noontime, weve got mostly cloudy skies. The north bay will have more sun today. The rest of us partly to mostly cloudy and looking at temperatures cooler than average, mainly in the mid to upper 70s inland. Well talk about a warm up potentially coming up in the next seven days. Steph. Lisa, thank you. New overnight a Los Angeles County sheriffs deputy shot and killed in an ambush. This morning. Authorities are asking for the publics help as
The record will show that on october 27th, 1947, a subcommittee of the house on American Activities Committee met with the chairman, dishonorable Parnell Thomas presiding. The house on American Activities Committee is in session. Let yourself go. You, sir, are not even subpoenaed to testify here. Yeah, im going to speak anyway. Very well, mr. Dreyfuss. My name is Richard Dreyfuss. And im a child of the blacklist. I was not my parents were not in show business but they were the victims of the blacklist nonetheless. I lived on 218 street in bay side, queens and every house on that block was lived in by a communist or a socialist. And if you have not fought hitler twice and not gone to the Abraham Lincoln brigade, you better have a dam good reason. When i was a young boy i turned to my mom and i said im the luckiest kid in the world and she said why . I said because im white, jewish and american. And she said its time you came into the meetings. And when i was about 10, i turned to a frie