Could be recaptured and brought back into slavery. What was that journey like . Where are slaves at this time, and how are they making the journey into canada . In the decades before the civil war, slaves were really everywhere in the United States. We think of them mostly being in the south and rural places, but enslaved people are in cities. They are brought into northern cities, some even sort of rented into the west and the northwest. They are really everywhere, and often they would take the opportunity, working with a network of people or by themselves, to escape slavery and seek that freedom they can find. What is a story that stands out to you in your research of a slave making that journey . My research is really focused on what happens after they are already in canada, but one of the settlements in what becomes canada is the town of buxton. You have a minister who takes a group of enslaved people from the south and he decides slavery is no longer what he sees as ethical. He is
Really a whole set of things together. It is roads, some rails, with people trying to get out of slavery and find ways to be safe. Sometimes that was just in the northern states. Sometimes that was in mexico. And most famously, it was going all the way to canada. A completely different country, being free from the chance they could be recaptured and brought back into slavery. What was that journey like . Where are slaves at this time, and how are they making the journey into canada . In the decades before the civil war, slaves were really everywhere in the United States. We think of them mostly being in the south and rural places, but enslaved people are in cities. They are brought into northern cities, some even sort of rented into the west and the northwest. They are really everywhere, and often they would take the opportunity, working with a network of people or by themselves, to escape slavery and seek that freedom they can find. What is a story that stands out to you in your resea
Thank, you alex. I want to begin tonight with a special word to and about don trumps criminal defenders, all of whom are offered a Standing Invitation to appear on this program at anytime. All of Donald Trumps Defense Lawyers have failed more spectacularly in the representation of donald trump than anything they have ever done in their professional lives because they have all failed at the most basic task, the first task, of a Criminal Defense Lawyer, which is to control your client. Donald trump is Out Of Control, spewing poisonous hateful, racist, sexist lies about the prosecutors and judges who are involved in the cases, the criminal cases against him. Or, as in fani williss case, still investigating him. And every one of Donald Trumps criminal Defense Lawyers knows that every poisoned, filthy word donald trump has said about the prosecutors, every one of those words is a pathological lie. And not one of those criminal Defense Lawyers has the professional dignity or Human Decency to
She used to be the District Attorney of the neighboring county i. Want to get her reaction to this. This is something weve never seen before in the history of american prosecutions. Georgia has never seen it, and i just want to get her feeling about what the impact of it is. Yeah, i mean, funny willis is not issued an indictment against on trump and hes already using everything at his disposal to undermine her and threatened her. So this is absolutely tara incognito it should not go under noticed or under discussed. I will be watching. Thank, you alex. I want to begin tonight with a special word to and about don trumps criminal defenders, all of whom are offered a Standing Invitation to appear on this program at anytime. All of Donald Trumps Defense Lawyers have failed work spectacularly in the representation of donald trump than anything they have ever done in their professional lives because they have all failed at the most basic task, the first task, of a Criminal Defense Lawyer, wh
Today, in a unanimous decision, the justices ruled that its not up to states to bar trump from their ballots under the 14th Amendment, so he gets to stay on the ballot in colorado, where the primary is tomorrow, maine, and illinois. They cant kick him off either. This decision is significant because the Supreme Court has never had to rule before on whether or not states have the power to disqualify a candidate, even an insurrectionist. This outcome is not necessarily surprising. The moment most legal experts heard the Oral Arguments and, specifically the back and forth with the justices, most of them predicted the court wouldnt take the step of barring the republican front runner from the ballot, that they would find a way out, and they did. Now, would a different outcome have sent a stronger message that you cannot foment an insurrection and be allowed to run for federal office . Yes, it would have. Would it be better for the prospects of president bidens reelection if donald trump go