He toured United States, raising money to buy freedom for himself and his children. Newspapers around the country chronicled his travels and his life story. Colonization enthusiasts, white americans who wanted to emancipate black people and repatriate them to west africa, hoped that ibrahaman would aid them in establishing the medic ties before the death between the colonies of liberia and nearby kingdoms as well as helping to convert west africa to christianity. In 1829, he journeyed to liberia with his wife. Though he was unable to fulfill the hopes of his captors and sponsors in the United States. He died shortly after his arrival there. We know about him in part because he was literate. And also was able to advocate for himself and his family using american ideas about islam and muslims to get what he wanted. Most enslaved muslims were not so lucky. Similarly, yaro mamout, who was enslaved in 1762, one his freedom after being a slave to a maryland family. He moved to washington dc,
choir singing the Angel Gabriel was sent from god to a city of galilee named. Narrator every sunday, in every corner of the world. The virgin, betrothed to a man whose name. Narrator . People gather to hear a story. And the virgins name was mary. Narrator for more than 2,000 years, that story has been told and retold. And to bear a son. Narrator along the way, each generation has found in its telling its own meaning and interpretation. . You shall call his name jesus. narrator that story, of a man called jesus of nazareth, a man who became jesus christ, was originally told by his first followers. . And be called the son of the most high. narrator and then retold in accounts by later believers in the gospels. The gospel according to st. Luke. Narrator so began the building of a religion. In the first two parts, with the help of scholars and historians, we tried to reconstruct his times, and how, after his death, a small jewish sect began to spread the word. Tonight, how that story was t
But this grand illusion, whose stage was the city itself, was founded in reality. By the 1500s, venice claimed 1,000 years of history as a free and independent republic. The chill wind of economic change the decline of empire had not yet touched its selfconfidence. It was still rich in trade and crafts. Its imperial possessions still spread out across the mediterranean and into the italian mainland, as here at vicenza. So the theater and the spectacle were props for a powerful empire which had survived for so long by hardheaded business acumen, by skillful diplomacy, and when those failed, by sheer military force. The cast of characters who paraded on this spectacular stage included the gods of antiquity whose attributes the city took as its own. Like ancient athens, venice personified itself as a woman as serenissima the serene as venus the sensual. The city even claimed a special relationship with the virgin mary virtuous and pure. Behind its spectacular mask the republic used its pr
With its good life its humane values, its sense of play, even. And it dramatized itself as an ideal city both for its own inhabitants and for the world outside. This civic drama was acted out through processions, ceremonies, and spectacle, and through art and architecture but this grand illusion, whose stage was the city itself, was founded in reality. By the 1500s, venice claimed 1,000 years of history as a free and independent republic. The chill wind of economic change the decline of empire had not yet touched its selfconfidence. It was still rich in trade and crafts. Its imperial possessions still spread out across the mediterranean and into the italian mainland, as here at vicenza. So the theater and the spectacle were props for a powerful empire which had survived for so long by hardheaded business acumen, by skillful diplomacy, and when those failed, by sheer military force. The cast of characters who paraded on this spectacular stage included the gods of antiquity whose attribu
Deadly clouds of gas. Ukraines protesters received validation today. They sat side by side with western powers pledging support. John kerry says the u. S. Backs what he calls their fight for democracy. You are looking at live pictures of Independence Square in the capital. Protesters have been rallying for more than two months. Tens of thousands of ukrainians have been demonstrating across the country. The battle putting russia and u. S. On opposing sides. Jennifer glasse joins us with more. John kerry met with the opposition. Did they get what they want . Well, i think they got some words. They got a lot of support. It was important as they met with the u. S. Secretary of state, a big boost. It shows supporters in ukraine, that they do have backing from bigtime international documents, but i think they would like to see more concrete support, and they really kind of need the help. One of the opposition leaders, Vitaly Klitschko, the former heavy wait boxer, places the blame in ukraine