And follow us on twitter. Next on American History tv. Lectures in history. Next, university of michigan that are that jones talks about a female slave who killed her owner after repeated Sexual Assaults. The class discusses the options she may have had and looks at involvement of her fellow slaves and white neighbors in the course case. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Today we began the discussion we started a couple of weeks ago and in particular. Enslaved women. We have already had a chance to look at the case of oh Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. Jacobs introduced us, if you will to the dimension of slavery thats especially illustrated, exemplified. We might say central to the experience of slave women. Thats Sexual Violence. Well come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today that of celia. We have also looked at the wpa narratives. One of the things we noticed about those narratives is you will recall the extent to
Ruled that segregated Public Schools were unconstitutional. Hosted by our cox comedic haitians cable partners, cspan city tour staff recently visited many sites showcasing the citys history. Learn more about topeka all weekend, here on American History tv. In 1854, all eyes were on kansas. Congress had passed a law creating a kansasnebraska territory, opening up areas of the United States that had been set aside as nonslavery, that it was possible for slavery to grow and develop in kansas. As a consequence, that set in motion a tremendous competition between those folks who wanted to expand slavery and those folks who wanted to put it on a course of ultimate distinction. Extinction. And as a result everybody was , concerned about kansas. If you were for slavery, you wanted to make sure that kansas would become like missouri, a slave state. If you were opposed to slavery you want to make sure that no new opportunities were opened up. This movement into the territory that was created by
Story of lincoln. I am looking forward to finishing it. Lincoln is a particularly revered figure. He is revered in kansas in that we came into the union in the same time he is coming up. The kansas people were passionate abolitionists and for lincoln. He said, once famously, if i were a young man now, i would go to kansas. So, we came in with lincoln, and we have stayed with him. Throughout the weekend, American History tv is featuring topeka, kansas. Our staff recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. To learn more, visit cspan. Org. You are watching American History tv, all weekend and every weekend on cspan3. Each week American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of the Nations College professors. You can watch the classes every saturday evening here at 8 00 and midnight eastern. Next, Mercer University professor Douglas Thompson talks about religion and its impact on the relationship between slaves and their owners during the antebellum period. He cites nat turn
Park, which is Gateway National recreation area. My name is lincoln hallowell. Im an National Park service ranger. You will be hearing from myself and from fellow park ranger diane wolfe. Will talk to you a little bit in celebration of womens History Month about the women of Floyd Bennett field we will talk to you a little bit. Its one of the more significant sites in the history of aviation. It is a story that doesnt get told to much anymore, but in its day, the aviators who flew at Floyd Bennett field during the 1930s were as big of celebrities as anybody you might think of. You know, you start with the age of charles lindbergh, 1927, and really, right up until world war ii, these folks were advancing Aviation Technology at an incredible rate. When you think that the first airplane flight was in 1903 with the wright brothers, we are at the dawn of the jet age. We go from a time when it was perfectly common to have biplane wood and fabric airliners to allmetal monoplane airliners capa
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