Hello, hello, hello. Distance, iocially am allowed to take my mask up. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Secretary kerry and mr. President i like the sound of that. Thank you, pal. Thanks for the welcome. It is great to be here in michigan with the united auto workers. As they say in parts of my state, i got brought up on General Motors. My father ran the General Motors agency he didnt own it, but he ran it. Cars are cars are cars. By the way, i still have my 1967 corvette. It was new. I still keep that. I have got to tell you, i am waiting for that electric one 10 miles per 210 hour, thats a different story. Earlier this week and the reason we are a little bit late here we found out, the press asked me a legitimate question i did not have the background on, because it occurred on the plane. Earlier this week we celebrated labor day, and here in the heart of the Automobile Industry we never forget everything we owe the unions. Unions built this country. Unions built the economy, th
Mr. Biden hello, hello, hello. Since i am socially distanced, i am allowed to take my mask off, they tell me. But i promise i will put it back on. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Secretary kerry, and mr. President , i like the sound of that. Thank you, pal. Thanks for the welcome. It is great to be here in michigan with the united auto workers. As they say in parts of my state, i got brought up on General Motors. My father ran the General Motors agency he didnt own it, but he ran it. Cars are cars are cars. By the way, i still have my 1967 corvette. It was new. I still keep that. But i have got to tell you, i am waiting for that electric one you made that goes 210 miles per hour. But thats a different story. Earlier this week, and the reason we are a little bit late here we found out, the press asked me a legitimate question i did not have the background on, because it occurred on the plane. Earlier this week we celebrated labor day, and here in the heart of the American Automobi
Documents on out of mission, slavery and recruiting freeman freedom in the union. Army so now, i would like to turn our attention to some objects that help us describe the civil war. As a curator in the museum room, particularly the history museum, i am always struck by how art objects documents on display either Standing Firm larger historical narratives. So for those of you who missed last weeks program, lets talk for a moment about this book. A civil war in 50 objects. How did it come about and how effective do you think it is hot in the display talk about that narrative sweep in 50 objects . Well, it came about a second fast last week because louise meir asked me to undertake the project for this. It was a lucky day for me. You remember that we got to see, three times 50 objects before some conference tables in the Historical Society. I was a matter of taking representative objects which as you say stand in for big history of the civil war item by adam, personal story by personal s
Itself. So, for those of you that missed last week program, lets talk about this book, the civil war and 50 objects. How effective do you think it is at conveying the narrative sweep of the civil war in only 50 objects . Well, it came about, as i confessed last week, because louise asked me to undertake the project for the Historical Society. It was a lucky day for me. And youll remember that we got to see, i dont know, three times 50 objects, arrayed before us on some conference tables in the Historical Society. So, it was a matter of picking representative objects, exciting objects, which, as you say, stand in the for the big history of the civil war. Item by item, personal story by personal story. And it was remarkable at the end that we constructed the history of the war from the Abolitionist Movement to the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery. Great. And it was great fun to work with you on that project too. I feel the same. Yeah. So, our topic this evening is fighting slavery
Narrative sweep of the civil war and only 50 objects . About when i was asked to undertake the project for the Historical Society and that was a lucky day for me. Threemember we got to see arrayed befores us on a conference table and the Historical Society. That was a matter of picking representative objects which stand in for a big history of the civil war, item by item, personal story by personal story. It was remarkable at the end that we constructed the history of the war from the Abolitionist Movement to the 13th amendment which abolished slavery. And it was great fun to work with you on that project. Yes. Our topic this evening as fighting slavery, the bumpy road to black freedom. This evening we will be looking at three objects related to the topics and theyre all paperbased objects. Petition to Abraham Lincoln for the recruitment of black troops. A broadside by Frederick Douglass. And a sketch, the arrival of slaves to chickasaw bio. Bayou. Petition toe is a ever handling and f