Our city store visits detroit, michigan to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For eight years now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities, ringing the literary scene and Historic Sites to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits at the span. Org beauty store tour. Org cities air at the Detroit Museum and we are about to walk into an exhibit called americas motor city. Detroit has been. The motor city capital of the world since at least 1915 when there were over 42 Companies Making cars and another 75 Companies Making parts. While other towns build cars, we built lots of cars. The detroit area enjoyed a wealth of strong manufacturing, a lot of it based in the building of carriage bodies but also in building iron stoves, building Railroad Cars, realworld wheels and the rails that go with them. Understood the manufacturing process but also how to deal with steel, iron, rubber. They had all the engineers, designers and toolmakers and the tools they needed to make an auto
If jon stewart were here this wouldnt be happening. Committee on the judiciary subcommittee on constitutional civil rights and liberties will come to order. Thank the officers for get itin the doors shut and folks in. Thank you so much. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. I welcome everyone todays hearing on the path to Restorative Justice. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Today is june, a day that commemorates the abolition of slavery in texas and more generally throughout the confederacy. The news with the emancipation proclamation did not reach texas for two years so all enslaved people knew they were free despite lincolns emancipation. Slavery was a crime against humanity, one whose impacts we as a society continue to grapple with today. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the first african slaves being brought to america. Slaveries of our nations first original sin. Our constitution protected it and various compromise
That and on the opposite side, in windsor there is one facing our statue pointing back on this side. Gateway to freedom means that this was the passageway or the route to get to canada to freedom. Was aderground railroad loose mechanism for the freedom seekers to escape to freedom. So, throughout the north especially, their work safe havens. The idea was to get across the ohio river from the slave states to the free states and so there were a lot of safe havens throughout illinois, indiana, forthpittsburgh, and so as well as michigan. The founders future founders of second baptist got involved in the underground railroad before they were even a church. Before they were even a place of worship back in 1831 when thornton and Lucy Blackburn escaped from a plantation in kentucky. The colored community was involved in helping them escape to toronto, in canada. To numbers, mr. And mrs. Lightfoot and mr. And mrs. French were prominent in that escape and they were future members of the second
Will committee on the judiciary subcommittee on constitutional civil rights and Civil Liberties come to order. Thank you for your help getting the door shut and getting people. Care will authorize the recess of the subcommittee any time. Welcome everyone to this hearing on hr 40 and thei will recognize myself or opening statement. Today is the documents the announcement of the abolition of slavery in texas and more generally throughout the confederacy. The news of the emancipation proclamation did not reach texas for 2 years and it was not until 1865 dental they were free. Despite the announcement. Slavery was a crime against humanity one which impacts we continue to grapple with today. This also marks the 400 anniversary of the first african state slaves being brought to america. Slavery was our original sin. Our constitution protected the and various compromises that gave disproportionate power to slave states. The thrift 3 5 clause they were consider personal property and that gave
Will committee on the judiciary subcommittee on constitutional civil rights and Civil Liberties come to order. Thank you for your help getting the door shut and getting people. Care will authorize the recess of the subcommittee any time. Welcome everyone to this hearing on hr 40 and thei will recognize myself or opening statement. Today is the documents the announcement of the abolition of slavery in texas and more generally throughout the confederacy. The news of the emancipation proclamation did not reach texas for 2 years and it was not until 1865 dental they were free. Despite the announcement. Slavery was a crime against humanity one which impacts we continue to grapple with today. This also marks the 400 anniversary of the first african state slaves being brought to america. Slavery was our original sin. Our constitution protected the and various compromises that gave disproportionate power to slave states. The thrift 3 5 clause they were consider personal property and that gave