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Stations and cspan. Org cities to her. Youre watching cspan, all we can come every weekend. This is American History tv on cspan three. You can watch us every saturday and sunday, and holidays, too. Congress passed the 13th amendment formally abolishing slavery the United States on january 31, 1865. Next we discussed lincolns legacy in the 13th amendment 150 years later. The National Constitution center in philadelphia hosted this event. It is about one hour and a half. [applause] welcome to the...

Flows from one pure source. Within the soul of america is freedom of mind and spirit in man. There alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of human spirit. Here alone is Human Dignity not a dream, but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect. But it is more full of in its realization here than any other place in the world. This is American History tv on cspan3. You can watch us every saturday and sunday and on holidays too covering American History cspan style. Congress p...

Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, our next speaker is cassandra newbyalexander. Cassandra is a professor of history and director of the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center for african diaspora. She earned her ph. D. In history at the college of william and mary. Shes written several books on the africanAmerican History of Hampton Roads and is now coauthoring a history on the black community of norfolk. Many of you know cassandra from the 2010 virginia civil war sus question centennial conference, held at no...

At the college of william and mary. Shes written several books on the africanAmerican History of Hampton Roads and is now coauthoring a history on the black community of norfolk. Many of you know cassandra from the 2010 virginia civil war sus question centennial conference, held at norfolk state on slavery and the civil war. The tough stuff of American History and memory. She was the director of that conference. I first met cassandra at a conference in 2006 at ft. Monroe. It was interesting, tha...

Freedmen, who came to be called and discusses their service in the union army and the challenges they faced in the aftermath of the war. This is just under 40 minutes. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, our next speaker is cassandra newbyalexander. Cassandra is a professor of history and director of the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center for african diaspora. She earned her ph. D. In history at the college of william and mary. Shes written several books on the africanAmerican History of Hampton Roads and is...

Presentation about how the concept of fleeing slaves coming into union lines came to be known as contraband of war. She is now a member of our historians advisory committee. Shes helping us create the exhibits for the new Civil War Museum. This is cassandras first time to address an American Civil War museum audience. And we are very pleased to have her with us. Ladies and gentlemen, dr. Cassandra newbyalexander. [ applause ] good morning. As we commemorate the person of the year 1865 i offer my...

Hello, the Italian Coast Guard is searching for 200 migrants missing after their boat sank and the vessel believes to be carrying around 500 people set sale from the libyan port city and 127 people are confirmed dead but this is expected to rise. It had nearly finished the 400 kilometer journey before it sank. What is the latest . The weather conditions are hampering the search and rescue operations. So far we have been talking to the coast guards and they are saying because of the weather condi...

Quarter of record profits, all thanks to revival in the chip sector, but shares are falling as it prepares for Slower Growth in the mobile space. All right. A warm welcome to you. Welcome to this jobs friday. No, its not a jobs friday. Because of this. House republicans today are holding a closed door meet to go discuss plans for budget and fiscal matters as the u. S. Government shutdown hits day four. There is little action in congress as the budget impasse looks like it could very much into th...

One needs a anti juanita and i met several weeks ago. As i began to talk and she was telling me about her research in such, we had somebody to make sure that we would just could not imagine. One being in Councilmember Meyer did not mention quite what i civil war site is. We had to be be a union soldier, lots of names on the wall of the house on the hill. Please afterwards go into our gallery and see a replica attic, which has many signatures. But we have a connection because there is a connectio...

Put as a country we give relatively little of overseas aid if you put all that in domestically and probably could not be enough to make a huge debt. If you tackle poverty you have to think about domestic tax is. If you want money for the Antipoverty Program you cannot have a situation where corporations like General Electric had huge abilities to avoid the tax bill. Or were a Real Companies are dramatically better to have a discussion of the more progressive tax system but it seems to me these t...