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We have to oppose the extension of the savory slavery. The immigrant societies formed in the north. They would give money to fund immigrants. They did something comparable. They have an advantage because kansas territory was right next to missouri as a slave state. And the missourians the board into kansas and they would destroy the free state settlement. The idea was to make kansas unfriendly. This is where john brown comes in. By this time almost as committed to the antislavery cause. Theyre not initially can it take up arms. They said bob you bobby should come join us. He is increasingly distressed at the failure of the to actually frustrate the proslavery courses. They seem to be rolling right over physically over the antislavery side. He needs to take strong action to send a message to the pro slavery side. They descend on aim proslavery settlement and they drag five men close savory slavery settlers and just outside the cabins where they are living there right off into the night.
Live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, ondemand on cspan. Org Supreme Court or on the cspan radio app. Hello and welcome to the Atlanta History Center virtual talk series but im virginia prescott and im your host for this talk. Tonight and talking with lisa napoli about her new book up all night, ted turner and the birth of 24 hour news for you can purchase the book directly from a cappella books and the link is in the chat on the right of your screen and the link is also at the Atlanta History Center website. As lisa and i talked please submit your questions and use a q a feature at the bottom of your screen and will try to answer as many as we can as time allows. We will be broadcasting excerpts of this interview on Second Thought this friday and you will hear me do what we call a re id to keep consistent sound while we are going. So excited to speak with lisa napoli who got her first journalism job at cnn after interning at cnn new york, and bc bureaus as a teenager and she is a repo
No. Hello and welcome to the other talk series. And virginia prescott and the host to deny the conversation with some fine about the zealot and the emancipator john brown and the struggle for american freedom. Theres a link to the right of your screen or you can go to the link provided at the History Centers web site. As we are talking please submit your questions with the q a feature at the bottom of the screen. Not the chat, just the q a. Tends to get less credit that when i will try to integrate as many of them into the conversation as they can. H. W. Brands is the chair of the university of houston and offered some 30 books on u. S. History month in the First Americans biography for pulitzer prize. Bill brands thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. Abraham lincoln and john brown wellknown historians. What did you want to add to the understanding of these famous american martyrs really by writing this . I think teaching American History for 35 going on 40 years a
Have ordered a copy of the book, please consider grabbing one nationally, internationally, Curbside Pickup thats open now at limited capacity. Heads up, weekends are busy. The share guidelines and also some to the books. Easy access to purchase. Remember your purchase goes towards our staff. Our guest for the night will be joining us on the screen. We will take questions from the audience to please submit your questions below. If youre looking below all the way to the right, lucy little bubbles, thats where you should put them. We will try to keep track of all the questions. Also, if youre watching via facebook, submit your questions on the comment field and well go from there. I like give a warm welcome to our guest for the night, eddie, phd is an associate professor of Higher Education and organizational change at ucla. College president and the struggle for black students published by Princeton University press. You can find him on twitter at eddie. Also phd, historian of black wome