Jerry Rescue Monument, Syracuse New York
In 1851 a free man was almost stolen from NY and handed over to the slave states. The citizens of Syracuse saved him and that area would eventually become known as the great central depot on the Underground Railroad.
This was produced during my enrollment in Syracuse University's Military Visual Journalism Program.
Heroes of Nullification: The Jerry Rescue, Resisting Slavery
They don't teach this in school. An introduction to the Jerry Rescue of 1851.
Abolitionists used nullification in Syracuse, NY to protect a runaway slave from the horrors of the federal fugitive slave act, even in the face of federal threats from the hated Sec. of State, Daniel Webster.
The Jerry Rescue, Uncle Tom, and Anthony Burns
In this episode, Chris Calton discusses some of the most significant outcomes of the Fugitive Slave Act, such as the publication of 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin' — the most widely-read novel of the nineteenth century — and the attempted rescue of Anthony Burns.
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Earth Healing: Syracuse holds TV collection
A leader in electronic waste recycling projects in the northeast is the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA) in Syracuse, NY.
The agency held a TV collection on Saturday, April 19 in the Alliance Bank Stadium parking lot as part of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
The Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency received an EPA grant to help offset costs of the recycling project.
It was one of over 100 challenge projects across 8 states in the Great Lakes Basin.
Organizers keep traffic flowing smoothly as 964 vehicles arrived with old TVs.
The event took in 1,551 old television sets weighing 97,080 pounds, said Andrew Radin, Director of Recycling and Waste Reduction for the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency.
That means nearly 9 tons of old TVs from central New York were recycled.
The agency also holds ongoing e-waste collections at the Community Collection Center also know as 3-C - located at 6085 Court Street - in Syracuse, NY.
The electronics collection dates and times are:
Tuesdays 4 - 8 p.m.
Thursdays8 a.m. - noon
Saturdays 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
There is no charge to drop off household e-waste and other items at the collection center including old computers & related equipment and fluorescent bulbs, household batteries, cell phones, smoke detectors, tabletop copiers, DVD players, electronic game consoles like Nintendo, and Xbox, fax machines, phones, VCRs & stereos including speakers.
The agency is developing a plan to accept TVs at the center.
Over 60,000 pounds has been turned in at the Community Collection Center so far this year.
Business waste in not accepted. The center accepts books: covers must be removed.
The agency is helping the hungry by asking residents dropping off items to be recycled to also bring canned food and other non perishables for Food Bank of Central New York.
The Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency is known as OCRRA for short using its initials
Since 2002 OCRRA has collected over 1,000 tons of e-waste for recycling.
OCRRA has numerous environment projects that benefit the Syracuse area including the Blue Bin It campaign.
Blue Bin It is based on the well-know blue bins that are popular in recycling projects across the country.
OCRRA has a series of radio spots promoting its blue bin it campaign.
The goal of the EPA Challenge was the collecting and recycling of one million pounds of electronics (e-Waste) plus the collection and proper disposal of one million pills. The EPA says those goals were exceeded by 400 to 500 percent.
The Earth Healing Initiative assisted by offering interfaith liaisons to volunteer and encourage members of local churches and temples to participate in the Earth Day related events in their area.
This video on Challenge project was made possible by a grant from the US EPA with the EPA Region 5 office in Chicago, the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office in Chicago, with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment.
I'm Greg Peterson and you're watching Earth Healing TV
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Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA) ) in Syracuse, NY recycling page
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When Did Slavery End in New York?
The New-York Historical Society and NYC Media, the official network of the City of New York, have partnered to produce a special series of one minute videos that feature the staff of the New York Historical Society as they answer some of the most captivating questions ever posed to them about the City's fascinating and unique history.
When did slavery end in New York State?
In 1799, New York passed a Gradual Emancipation act that freed slave children born after July 4th, 1799 but indentured them until they were young adults. In 1817, a new law passed that would free slaves born before 1799 but not until 1827. By the 1830 census, there were only 75 slaves in New York and the 1840 census listed no slaves in New York City.
The Search for the Real Life of J.W. Loguen
The Search for the Real Life of J.W. Loguen was presented as part of the 2012 National Abolition Hall of Fame symposia at Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y. by historical re-enactor/writer/lecturer Robert Djed Snead.
This lecture recounts Snead's introduction to and subsequent research into the life and accomplishments of Bishop J.W. Loguen (ca 1810-1872).
Snead shares his discovery of Loguen's defiant stands against slavery and social injustice and Loguen's relationships with abolitionists Douglass, Samuel May, Gerrit Smith, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony and many others.
Snead discovered that Loguen is an under-researched and under appreciated giant of the 19th century who contributed greatly to the Anti-slavery movement before the Civil War and to Reconstruction efforts in the North and South afterwards.
We Matter: Athletes and Activism
Former SU basketball star, published poet, activist, and 11-year veteran of the NBA, Etan Thomas, returns to Syracuse University to speak on politics and the opportunities and experiences he had to utilize his platform as a professional athlete on matters of social justice, race, and writing his new book, “We Matter: Athletes and Activism”
Daniel Webster | Wikipedia audio article
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- Socrates
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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American politician who represented New Hampshire (1813–1817) and Massachusetts (1823–1827) in the United States House of Representatives; served as a Senator from Massachusetts (1827–1841, 1845–1850); and was the United States Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison (1841), John Tyler (1841–1843) and Millard Fillmore (1850–1852). He and James G. Blaine are the only people to serve as Secretary of State under three presidents. Webster also sought the Whig Party nomination for President in 1836, 1840, and 1852.
Webster was one of the most highly regarded courtroom lawyers of the era. He shaped several key U.S. Supreme Court cases that established important constitutional precedents and bolstered the authority of the federal government. As a senator, he was a spokesman for American nationalism with powerful oratory that made him a key Whig leader. He spoke for conservatives and led the opposition to Democrat Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party, firmly challenging Jackson's policies in the Bank War. As a diplomat, he is best known for negotiating the Webster–Ashburton Treaty of 1842 with Great Britain which established the Canada–United States border east of the Rocky Mountains. He resigned in 1843, and returned to the Senate two years later. Finally, Webster was a lawyer for the National Bank and said, 'Justice is the great work of Man on Earth'.
Webster was the Northern member of the Great Triumvirate with his colleagues Henry Clay from the West (Kentucky) and John C. Calhoun from the South (South Carolina). His Reply to Hayne in 1830 has been regarded as one of the greatest speeches in the Senate's history. He wanted to see the Union preserved and civil war averted, and he worked for compromises to stave off the sectionalism that threatened war between the North and the South. Webster's support for the Compromise of 1850 proved crucial to its passage, but the decision was widely unpopular in Massachusetts. Webster resigned as a result, but he was appointed to serve another term as Secretary of State under President Millard Fillmore soon after.
In 1957, a Senate committee selected Daniel Webster as one of the five greatest U.S. Senators, along with Clay, Calhoun, Robert M. La Follette Sr., and Robert A. Taft.
Military history of Jewish Americans | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:10 1 Participation by war
00:01:20 1.1 French and Indian War
00:01:47 1.2 Revolutionary War
00:02:19 1.2.1 Haym Solomon
00:04:02 1.3 Civil War
00:05:17 1.3.1 Jews and the Union
00:09:39 1.3.2 Jews and the Confederacy
00:12:59 1.4 World War I
00:13:45 1.5 World War II
00:13:54 1.5.1 Half a million Jewish soldiers
00:14:44 1.5.2 Major General Maurice Rose
00:15:45 1.5.3 Rabbi Goode and the Immortal Chaplains
00:16:33 1.5.4 Jewish scientists and the Manhattan Project
00:23:24 1.6 Korean and Vietnam Wars
00:23:50 2 Cold War
00:23:59 2.1 Jewish scientists and the Hydrogen bomb and SDI
00:24:38 2.1.1 Edward Teller
00:28:06 2.1.2 Stanislaw Ulam
00:28:59 3 Jews and the US Navy
00:29:09 3.1 Commodore Uriah P. Levy
00:29:55 3.2 Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
00:30:58 3.3 Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda
00:32:55 4 Secretaries of Defense
00:33:05 4.1 James R. Schlesinger
00:34:12 4.2 Harold Brown
00:35:04 4.3 William Cohen
00:35:57 5 Intelligence
00:36:06 5.1 Intelligence work serving America
00:36:26 5.1.1 Henry Kissinger
00:38:16 5.1.2 John M. Deutch
00:38:48 6 Special Forces/Special Missions Units
00:40:30 7 Chaplaincy
00:41:05 7.1 Civil War
00:41:54 7.2 JWB Jewish Chaplains Council
00:43:05 7.3 World War II
00:43:35 7.4 Post World War II
00:46:42 7.5 Naval Academy Jewish Chapel
00:47:53 8 Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America
00:49:38 9 National Museum of American Jewish Military history
00:50:37 10 Misconceptions of Jewish service
00:51:38 11 See also
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Jewish Americans have served in the United States armed forces dating back to before the colonial era, when Jews had served in militias of the Thirteen Colonies. Jewish military personnel have served in all branches of the armed forces and in every major armed conflict to which the United States has been involved. The Jewish Chaplains Council estimated that there are currently 10,000 known Jewish servicemen and servicewomen on active duty.A number of Jewish American servicemen have gained fame due to their military service, and many have received awards and decorations for distinguished service, valor, or heroism. More than 20 Jewish servicemen were awarded the military's highest award, the Medal of Honor. Many other American Jews who served in the military later achieved prominence in business, politics, science, entertainment and other fields. Foreign Jews have also been significant in the development of military science and technology – including physicists Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, and Edward Teller, who were important in the Manhattan Project, which led to the development of the first nuclear weapons.
List of slaves | Wikipedia audio article
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List of slaves
00:00:26 1 A
00:08:00 2 B
00:11:53 3 C
00:16:41 4 D
00:19:41 5 E
00:24:22 6 F
00:25:49 7 G
00:28:57 8 H
00:31:33 9 I
00:33:14 10 J
00:42:19 11 K
00:43:42 12 L
00:47:16 13 M
00:55:40 14 N
00:57:32 15 O
00:58:59 16 P
01:03:58 17 Q
01:04:33 18 R
01:07:44 19 S
01:13:20 20 T
01:16:29 21 U
01:16:50 22 V
01:18:53 23 W
01:21:12 24 X
01:21:25 25 Y
01:22:32 26 Z
01:23:45 27 See also
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Slavery is a social-economic system under which persons are enslaved: deprived of personal freedom and forced to perform labor or services without compensation. These people are referred to as slaves.
The following is a list of historical people who were enslaved at some point during their lives, in alphabetical order by first name. Several names have been added under the letter representing the person's last name.
Paterson, New Jersey | Wikipedia audio article
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Paterson, New Jersey
00:01:04 1 History
00:01:29 1.1 Establishment
00:03:22 1.2 Industrial growth
00:05:20 1.3 Athletics
00:06:38 1.4 Post-World War II era
00:09:35 2 Geography
00:11:08 2.1 Neighborhoods
00:22:17 2.2 Climate
00:22:41 3 Demographics
00:23:51 3.1 2010 Census
00:27:35 3.2 2000 Census
00:30:48 3.3 Ethnic groups
00:37:18 4 Economy
00:37:49 5 Arts and culture
00:40:23 6 Government
00:40:32 6.1 Local government
00:44:09 6.2 Federal, state and county representation
00:46:42 6.3 Politics
00:50:46 7 Emergency services
00:52:15 8 Transportation
00:52:24 8.1 Roads and highways
00:53:38 8.2 Public transportation
00:55:14 9 Education
00:58:06 10 Sister cities
00:58:38 10.1 Friendship
00:59:24 11 In popular culture
01:02:49 12 Notable people
01:20:35 13 See also
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Paterson is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 146,199, rendering it New Jersey's third-most-populous city. Paterson has the second-highest density of any U.S. city with over 100,000 people, behind only New York City. For 2017, the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated a population of 148,678, an increase of 1.7% from the 2010 enumeration, ranking the city as the 174th-most-populous in the nation.Paterson is known as the Silk City for its dominant role in silk production during the latter half of the 19th century. The city has since evolved into a major destination for Hispanic immigrants as well as for immigrants from India, South Asia, the Arab and Muslim world. Paterson has the second-largest Muslim population in the United States by percentage.
Italian Americans | Wikipedia audio article
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Italian Americans
00:02:45 1 History
00:02:54 1.1 Early period (1492–1775)
00:07:08 1.2 War of Independence to Civil War (1775–1861)
00:11:39 1.3 Civil War and after (1861–90)
00:14:44 1.4 The period of mass immigration (1890–1920)
00:27:26 1.5 1917-1941
00:35:04 1.6 World War II
00:39:05 1.7 Wartime violation of Italian-American civil liberties
00:42:20 1.8 Post-World War II period
00:48:37 1.9 Close of the twentieth century
00:51:49 2 Politics
00:55:57 3 Business and economy
00:56:58 3.1 Workers
00:58:50 3.2 Women
01:04:17 4 Culture
01:07:10 4.1 Literature
01:13:06 4.2 Religion
01:16:56 4.2.1 Italian Jews
01:20:04 4.3 Education
01:21:23 4.4 Language
01:27:55 4.5 Newspapers
01:32:17 4.6 Folklore
01:34:15 5 Discrimination and stereotyping
01:40:52 6 Communities
01:43:01 6.1 New York City
01:46:25 6.2 Philadelphia
01:49:15 6.3 Boston
01:50:19 6.4 Newark
01:52:12 6.5 Saint Louis
01:52:21 6.6 Syracuse
01:53:42 6.7 Providence
01:54:34 6.8 Chicago
01:56:57 6.9 Cleveland
01:58:41 6.10 Milwaukee
01:59:39 6.11 Ybor City
02:00:57 6.12 Birmingham
02:01:39 6.13 San Francisco
02:02:10 6.14 Los Angeles
02:03:29 6.15 San Diego
02:04:43 7 Demographics
02:10:14 7.1 U.S. States with over 10% people of Italian ancestry
02:10:48 7.2 U.S. Communities with the most residents of Italian ancestry
02:13:05 8 Notable people
02:13:14 9 See also
02:13:55 10 References and notes
02:14:05 11 Bibliography
02:14:14 12 External links
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Italian Americans (Italian: italoamericani or italo-americani [ˌitalo.ameriˈkaːni]) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans who have ancestry from Italy. Italian Americans are the seventh largest Census-reported ethnic group in the United States (which includes American ethnicity, an ethnonym used by many in the United States; overall, Italian Americans rank seventh, behind German American, African American, Irish American, Mexican American, English American, and American).About 5.5 million Italians immigrated to the United States from 1820 to 2004. By 1870, there were less than 25,000 Italian immigrants in America, many of them Northern Italian refugees from the wars that accompanied the Risorgimento—the struggle for Italian unification and independence from foreign rule. Immigration began to increase during the 1870s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated (1870–79: 46,296) than during the five previous decades combined (1820–69: 22,627). The 1870s were followed by the greatest surge of immigration, which occurred between 1880 and 1914 and brought more than 4 million Italians to the United States, the great majority being from Southern Italy and Sicily, with most having agrarian backgrounds. This period of large scale immigration ended abruptly with the onset of the First World War in 1914 and, except for one year (1922), never fully resumed.
Further immigration was greatly limited by several laws Congress passed in the 1920s.Approximately 84% of the Italian immigrants came from the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. This was the poorest and least developed part of Italy, still largely rural and agricultural, where much of the populace had been impoverished by centuries of foreign misrule, and an oppressive taxation system imposed after Italian unification in 1861. After unification, the Italian government initially encouraged emigration to relieve economic pressures in the South. After the American Civil War, which resulted in over a half million killed or wounded, immigrant workers were recruited from Italy and elsewhere to fill the labor shortage caused by the war. In the United States, most Italians began their new lives as manual laborers in Eastern cities, mining camps and in agriculture.
The descendants of the Italian immigrants gradually rose from a lower economic class in the first generation to a level comparable to the national average by 1970. The Italian community has often been characterized by strong ties to family, the Roma ...