Paper. Theyre going to show up one day and hand that to me, im positive. [laughter] jefferson was in charge as he was away, and he was moving from a smaller property to the bigger house in 1799. [inaudible] [laughter] that is a good point. I will go home and do that. Thank you very much. [applause] youre watching American History tv. Follow us on twitter for our schedule and to give up on the latest history news. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1970 nine, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. It is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Next on American History tv, cr gives highlights the achievements of several africanamerican women of the civil war. , focusing on individuals he says have been overlooked. Stories of black women who worked as soldiers and spies as well as women who were abolitionist on the underground railroad. This hourlong event took place at the africanamerican civil or thatrial and it was organized b
The show. Thanks for watching at home. Thanks for coming to my work. Very kind, i appreciate it. Remember like remember like four days ago when we were all worried about north korea . What happened to that . [ laughter ] those were simpler times. Im glad youre here. Im glad im here. Theres so much trumpiness going on right now. Its hard to keep up. But tonight President Trump gave his first tv interview since he fired the director of the fbi on tuesday. You know, one of the reasons theyre giving for that firing is that trump said james comey lost the trust of rank and file fbi agents. And today the acting head of the fbi, andrew mccabe, flatly contradicted that. He said the vast majority of agents hold a deep positive connection to director comey. So hes fired too then, right . [ laughter ] everybodys fired. I think the strategist thing about how all this went down is that trump fired james comey by letter. He had a letter delivered to his office at the fbi. He didnt even say youre fir
The show. Thanks for watching at home. Thanks for coming to my work. Very kind, i appreciate it. Remember like remember like four days ago when we were all worried about north korea . What happened to that . [ laughter ] those were simpler times. Im glad youre here. Im glad im here. Theres so much trumpiness going on right now. Its hard to keep up. But tonight President Trump gave his first tv interview since he fired the director of the fbi on tuesday. You know, one of the reasons theyre giving for that firing is that trump said james comey lost the trust of rank and file fbi agents. And today the acting head of the fbi, andrew mccabe, flatly contradicted that. He said the vast majority of agents hold a deep positive connection to director comey. So hes fired too then, right . [ laughter ] everybodys fired. I think the strategist thing about how all this went down is that trump fired james comey b he had a letter delivered to his office at the fbi. He didnt even say youre fired, which
As it certainly tonight talk show host used to say, why dont we get busy. I want to begin with the first photograph and recite some numbers to you as well. Just to give you a sense of perspective. According to the census of 1860, there were over 990,000 black women from 15 up to 44 years of age. Their 1. 3 million children under 10 years of age. Over 120,000 black children under one year of age, and, all of these, most of these, what have been enslaved people. Thanks to research put together by the guild institute, there are things that we can say. We know that few enslaved people lived until old age. Between 1830 and 1860, only 10 of enslaved people in north america were over 50 years old. Half of all enslaved babies died in the first year of life. That was twice the rate of white babies. The average birthrate of slave weight of slave infants was less than 5. 5 pounds. Slave children were tiny. Their average height cannot reach three feet until they were four years old. They were 5. 5
Eugene was at the end of the valley, and the roosters down here wanted more populations brewsters down here wanted more population. But it is a mixed bag story, because it was a difficult passage. Again, at the southern end, where the settlement pattern was north to south. As we were at the very end, if you will. The museums collection begins in 1951, when one of the founders of the oregon trail project donated his collection, which became the Museums Foundation collection. And you are standing in front of this covered wagon, the oldest in the state of oregon. It came over here in the year 1850 with a doctors family. It came out of the area we today call council bluffs, iowa. It was a doctors family with six kids, the mother was pregnant, and she gave birth on the side shoulder of mount hood. A little girl, born in the back of the wagon, the yucca bianca. When she reached the age of 19, she was married. As a wedding gift, she was given the wagon that she was born in the back of. Wagons