Early 1,800 1800s. Joshua rothman is the professor. Today were going to talk about the emerge earns of a new antislavery and the reaction to that antislavery. We havent looked at opposition to slavery in a while but in a generation or two after the ratification of the constitution, it was not unusual for both northerners and southerners to talk about the morality of slavery. Now, before the 1830s or so, there were relatively few white americans who believed that enslaved people ought to be immediately freed, given citizenship rights, but there were many who felt white people and black people would both be better off if slavery gradually ended and if the two races sort of pursued their destinies separately. And so in 1817 you start to see kind of the manifestation of this idea in a movement, all right . That year a group of prominent minister and politicians, people who wanted to end slavery, separate the races, they founded an Organization Called the american colonization society. Now,
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Hi, welcome to the National Portrait gallery at the civilian institution. I am the curator of votes for women, a portrait of resistance. For this exhibition, i worked 3. 5 years researching, teaching myself this history, and finding all the objects. In this exhibit we have about 124 objects, including 63 portraits. In thisw exhibition, i was hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get this amendment passed and ratified. But also ask questions about it and ask what does it do and not do and why 1965, the Voting Rights act, was considered a part two of the voting amendment. I will show you a few of the objects that tell this history, so lets go. Were in the first gallery of the exhibition. And i mentioned we have portraits that drive the narrative, but i also wanted to include in the exhbitionj pieces of art, like the one were looking at which is titled the war spirit at home. Its by a female artist. He was active in th
Abolitionists and temp rest movements. This is the first of a twopart program. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the National Portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. Im Kate Clarke Lemay and im the curator of votes for women, a portrait of persistence. For this exhibition, i worked about 3 1 2 years researching, teaching myself this history and finding all the objects. In the exhibition we have about 124 objects of which there are 63 portraits and in curating the exhibition, i was hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get this amendment passed and ratified. But also ask questions about it and ask what does it do and what does it not do and why 1965 and the Voting Rights act is considered another sort of part two of the 19th amendment. So if youll follow me, im going to take you through the exhibition and show you a few of the objects that tell this history. Lets go. Were in the first gallery of the exhibition and i