He became one of the most reknowned performers in the country in the late 19th century. His stage name was blind tom. He was born blind. And was what we probably now would call autistic. But he was a musical genius. He could hear a piece played on the piano one time, and then play it note for note. He composed some of his own music. That was mainly based on natural sounds like birds or thunderstorms. One of his famous pieces recreation of a civil war battle on the piano. The sad part about blind toms story, the family that owned him as a slave kept control of him all of his life. When the 13th amendment freed the slaves that family went to court and had tom declared mentally incompetent. So for the rest of his life, to the end of the 1900s. 1800s they toured him in europe and around the United States and they keep the proceeds from it. The other slave has a little bit happier story. His name was horace king and was the slave of a man who was in construction and was a Bridge Builder and
Us at comments cspan. Org or send us a tweet, tweet, cspan comments. Join the conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Welcome to columbus, georgia, on booktv, located on the chattahoochee river. The river served as a Major Trading post and created a booming textile industry in the citys early history. The boats would come up the river and bring finished goods like, you know, furniture, machinery or agricultural implements x the farmers from east alabama and west georgia would bring their produce especially cotton into columbus, and it would be shipped down the river. Our port on the gulf is apalachicola, and from there the cotton would be shipped mainly to england or to the textile mills in the north. The help of our mediacom partners, for the next hour we explore columbus literary scene starting with local author Dan Crosswell as he recounts the life and career of general walter bidell smith. Basically, eisenhower was the good cop. So what he needed was a bad cop and
Take it. We get this portrait of ellen, and also william, who is supportive of her as a couple who were in love. They wanted they wanted a normal life. They wanted the same kind of life that you and i have. But they were denied that because of the laws of the slavery. That generated just a desire, unquenchable thirst to leave and get out of the state of georgia and the south. 1848, they decided they were going to leave. They planned the trip for four days, and they took off at night, they left, and they went to savannah and from savannah they caught a ship. Sailed to charleston, south carolina, and made symptom stops along the way, and finally ended up in philadelphia. But then once in philadelphia, the abolitionsist told them they wouldnt be safe in philadelphia as they would be in boston, massachusetts. Because the law in philadelphia were different than massachusetts. They helped them get to boston where there was a free black society of about 200 or 300 free blacks that had been th
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