Heurich was 11 years old living in germany. In 1853, she was a white woman from new york, moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the miner school for colored girls. Mytrilla came in 1851 and only had 100 in her pocket when she came. Most people thought she would be arrested or killed when she said what she wanted to do. And although there were abolitionists who sympathized with her cause it was like her own independent project. I first thought for a while when i first read about the story she might have been some kind of tool of the Abolition Movement, really, she came down here all on her own at the start. She first established the school by the force of her own will, something almost unimaginable, giving the cultural firsts that opposed her at the time. Remember, this is a woman who came by herself to a city she never visited before, a city where slavery was st
Heurich was 11 years old living in germany. In 1853, she was a white woman from new york, moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the miner school for colored girls. Mytrilla came in 1851 and only had 100 in her pocket when she came. Most people thought she would be arrested or killed when she said what she wanted to do. And although there were abolitionists who sympathized with her cause it was like her own independent project. I first thought for a while when i first read about the story she might have been some kind of tool of the Abolition Movement, really, she came down here all on her own at the start. She first established the school by the force of her own will, something almost unimaginable, giving the cultural firsts that opposed her at the time. Remember, this is a woman who came by herself to a city she never visited before, a city where slavery was st
Documents should include a bill of rights. Mr. Brookhiser explores the conflicting opinions of Founding Fathers george mason, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton while also addressing how the bill of rights were eventually ratified by the new states. The New York Historical society hosted this hourlong event. So tonights program is James Madison, father of the constitution, and its part of our carl menges lecture series in american history. Id like to thank carl menges for all his support and for helping us to create this series and for all he does as a valued member of New York Historical Society Board of trustees, carl, thank you. [ applause ] id also like to recognize and thank trustees lon jacobs, cy sternberg and all our Chairmans Council members with us for all their great work and support as well, lets give them all a hand, too. [ applause ] so the program tonight will last an hour and include a questionandanswer session and there will be a formal book signing
For protestants. Then there was a provision, excessive bail ought not to be required nor excessive fines imposed for crucial and unusual punishments inflicted. This was saying the english legal system could not crush a person financially and it could not torture a person. And these were obviously principles that would march on. In the next century after american independence states passed their own bills of rights and the most famous of them was by the largest most important state that was virginia in the spring and summer of 1776 known as the declaration of right. And the man who wrote this was george mason. Now george mason, he was an interesting character. He was a planter, he was a neighbor of George Washington, the two of them hunted foxes together. He has a beautiful house, gunston hall, which is opened to tourists in virginia. It has just a lovely great hall that he commissioned and a lot of men of the founding generation deplored any expression of ambition. You werent supposed
It doesnt mean a wealthy commoner, even a wealthy one, but this does set up the principle of trial by jury, judgment of his peers. It also says the lawful judgment of his peers. So theres an implication of due process of law even as early as 1215. If youre going to be imprisoned or punished, you have to be judged by your peers and there has to be some lawful reason for it. Now, there would be many holes in this over the years, but this principle is being laid down. Magna carta also says barons can petition to have transgressions regressed. They can go to the king with their petitions, with their complains, and he has to listen to them, doesnt have to answer them, doesnt have to satisfy them but he has to listen to them. And that again, is a very important point, the right to petition about your grievances. The next step in this history is 1688. We have another unpopular king in england, this is james ii. He was the last king of the house of stewart. He had risen to the throne after the