What does it mean. For today, we are going to be talking about what did freedom mean and in particular, what did freedom mean to the free people . In january of 1865, the secretary of war Edward Stanton and Union General William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah georgia. They were preachers, pastors, late Church Leaders and they wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that free people wanted from freedom . What did they expect . Particularly, what did they expect in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation . The group of 20 people whose ostensibly rebranded of of free black folks and the community selected garrison frazier, a 67 year old man to be the representative of the community. To speak for them. General sherman asked them, or asked him, basically what did he understand freedom to me especially in light of the emancipation proclamation . He said basically taking us from under the yoke of bondage and placing us where we can reach the po
Union. I got there as early as i could that morning and i had my vacation pictures from the week before. With going to share those these gals. We did not get started on this meeting until about 8 20. I would turn around and look at my computer screen at the next item we were to discuss. Andaned back in my chair let them discuss who was going to copy this or get this ready so they could hurry with their audit. I turned around in my chair and kind of rare to back rared back to discuss the next item, when the bomb went off. It had to be longer but it was like seconds. All of the girls in the office with me had disappeared. Had ran out and left me alone. I started hollering, where are you guys . Then a realization set in somewhat. I realized that i dont know where they are, they are gone. That when i found out the bomb went up and everything started coming down, the seven thems above us had took into what was eventually known as the pit. There was a silence that fell over the pulsing the s
And moment of crisis. A firefighter falling through the roof of a burning home swallowed by smoke and giant burst of flames. Other firefighters racing in to pull him to safety. His dramatic rescue and the fight to save him this morning. And good morning, america. We want to get right to that breaking news as we come on the air in the west german prosecutors just revealing at a press conference this morning that the copilot of that Germanwings Flight had been treated for suicidal ten didsies. Alex marquardt has the latest details. Good morning, alex. Reporter good morning, amy. The German Prosecutors Office clarify those many questions about lubitzs mental health. In the past he got lengthy treatment for suicidal thoughts they corn firmd. This morning, new revelations from German Authorities confirming that lubitz had a history of mental illness. Their investigation has revealed before lubitz was a pilot he was treated for suicidal ten didsies. Since then the prosecutor said there has b
As you can imagine a lot of prayers going out to that firefighter. Good morning, america. Great to have george and lara back from their vacations. It was a good break. Great too be back. Passengers cannot say the same thing. This major outage at jetblue causing headaches. Abc is at Reagan National airport. Jetblue is saying the situation resolved. Take a look at twitter and a lot of unhappy passengers. Reporter very unhappy. Angry passengers. It is spring break this week. Theyre trying to get out of town. This is a system wide computer went down for jetblue. They have 825 flights across the countries. Passengers showing up to check in this morning could only do it manually. Can you imagine how much longer thats taking and the angergenger for them. Theyre saying the system is back up. The cause for this is a systemwide outage that is now been resolved. This is on social media. Our system is coming back up. But its going to take some time for that system to come back up. So you can expec
Safety. His dramatic rescue and the fight to save him this morning. As you can imagine a lot of prayers going out to that firefighter. Good morning, america. Great to have george and lara back from their vacations. It was a good break. Great too be back. Passengers cannot say the same thing. This major outage at jetblue causing headaches. Abc is at Reagan National airport. Jetblue is saying the situation resolved. Take a look at twitter and a lot of unhappy passengers. Reporter very unhappy. Angry passengers. It is spring break this week. Theyre trying to get out of town. This is a system wide computer went down for jetblue. They have 825 flights across the countries. Passengers showing up to check in this morning could only do it manually. Can you imagine how much longer thats taking and the angergenger for them. Theyre saying the system is back up. The cause for this is a systemwide outage that is now been resolved. This is on social media. Our system is coming back up. But its going