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
Enslaved black people. He has more slaves than faculty. He has more slaves than trustees. Accounting, honest a bubbly more slaves than students. Today we speak with m. I. T. Historian greg Stephen Wilder about ebony and ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of americas universities. And we look at traces of the trade, a story from the deep north. One know in my family realized were that the walls were the largest slave trading family in the nation. They brought over 10,000 africans to the americans in chains. Half a million of their descendents could be alive today. With katrinaeak brown about how she traced her familys shocking history. All that and more coming up. We turn to a new book 10 years in the making that looks at how some of the countrys major universities, harvard, yale, then, rutgers, williams, university of north carolina, just to name a few, are drenched in the sweat and sometimes blood of the african slaves that were brought here. The book is called ebony and ivy
Enslaved black people. He has more slaves than faculty. He has more slaves than trustees. Accounting, honest a bubbly more slaves than students. Today we speak with m. I. T. Historian greg Stephen Wilder about ebony and ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of americas universities. And we look at traces of the trade, a story from the deep north. One know in my family realized were that the walls were the largest slave trading family in the nation. They brought over 10,000 africans to the americans in chains. Half a million of their descendents could be alive today. With katrinaeak brown about how she traced her familys shocking history. All that and more coming up. We turn to a new book 10 years in the making that looks at how some of the countrys major universities, harvard, yale, then, rutgers, williams, university of north carolina, just to name a few, are drenched in the sweat and sometimes blood of the african slaves that were brought here. The book is called ebony and ivy
Meet the Loss Coverage requirements. 26 palestiniand prisoners as part of the agreement that reopened u. S. Backed peace talks earlier this year. It is the second wave of the releases that will ultimately free 104 of the thousands of palestinians in israeli prisons. As jubilant crowds greeted the freed prisoners in the west bank and gaza, israel announced today it plans to construct 1500 new homes in an East Jerusalem settlement. The u. S. Brokered Israeli Palestinian negotiations are continuing behind closed doors. In a statement ahead of the prisoners, the top palestinian negotiator Yasser Abed Rabbo said israels current stance in the talks is its most hardline in over 20 years. He said israel is seeking to hold onto major parts of the occupied west bank, undermining the possibility of establishing ,sovereign palestinian state he said. The United Nations general simply has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the u. S. Embargo against cuba for the 22nd year in a row. He final vote was 188