Hi. So when i think about empowered women, i also am curious about their relationship to their fathers growing up. So you talked a little wit a little bit about their childhood, so im curious to know what was the relationship with each woman with her father. Certainly for Elizabeth Gurley flynn, her father, tom none, was a very flynn, was a very important figure in her life. And she he was a very strong socialist, and actually the whole family converted to socialism in 1902. And in that way i think he really influenced Elizabeth Gurley flynn, and he supported her. I mean when she was just, you know, 15 or 16 he would kind of travel around with her around new york city where she would speak and to the places like philadelphia or new jersey. And so he was often kind of accompanying her on her early talks. And i think he was very proud of her. And one of the interesting things was really the pride that her family took if her work. And i know he was very proud of her, but one of the reason
Century. The author recounts the development of the new York Vigilance Committee in 1835 and other organizations throughout the north that provided protection against slave kidnappings that occurred in new york city. He speaks with edna green medford, chair of the History Department at howard university. Host we are joined today by professor Eric Foner Dewitt Clinton professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of two dozen volumes, many of them award winners, including the fiery trial Abraham Lincoln and american slavery, which won the pulitzer, bancroft and lincoln prizes in 2011. Professor foner, thank you for joining us today. Guest thanks very much for having me. Host gateway to freedom the Hidden History of the underground railroad, how did you arrive at this subject and this title . Guest well, the title, i guess, is meant to reflect its the book centers on new york city although it deals with a lot of other places, but the title is meant to suggest th
I would like to begin with a very warm thanks to brian. There is brian back there. He has done so much to make this happen. Also, thank you to emma for the generous introduction. And also we should give a round of applause the staff of this museums maritime heritage, who keeps his heritage alive. [applause] now, im very happy to have a chance to talk with you this evening about a part of that heritage, which is not only concluding americas history. I want to talk to you about this book that i have written, the amistad rebellion. I want to begin by reminding everybody just what happened in that story. Okay . Does let me summarize what happened. The year is 1839. This sleek schooner, la amistad, which in spanish means friendship. It contains 53 enslaved africans. Men and children, including three little girls. They are being carried from hosanna to another part of cuba where the sugar plantation system is just exploding. Sugar was a key the key to cuba as one of the most dynamic way soci
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But the most striking Jew in the abolitionist movement was a Polish immigrant born Ernestine Louise Potowski and later known by her married name, Ernestine Rose who became a prominent advocate for abolition, as well as free thought (in her case, atheism) and women’s rights.
She once boasted, “I was a rebel at the age of five.” She sued in civil court to dissolve the marriage arranged for her by her rabbi father, and left home for Germany as a teenager, where the Prussian king granted her residency despite her Jewish origins. She supported herself selling her invention of perfumed paper for use as a room deodorizer.