Just very briefly your job experience and career. Yes, thank you for doing this today and great to be with you. Grew up in duchess county new york and received a nomination to the u. S. Naval academy, which i started a week after graduating high school in 1989, and i so i completed annapolis and was then commissioned in the u. S. Navy and served five years in the u. S. Navy, first as an arms control action officer doing International Arms control negotiations in the pentagon and then i moved into i served on a couple of Surface Warfare ships, couple of navy ships in atlantic the middle east. Dont you have a couple of degrees . Yeah, yeah. I have been sort of a life long student. Although i joke around, i was at annapolis, i dropped out in my junior year, but i have always been studying. Just because ive been working kind of throughout that period so i always kind of studied at night and go to night classes and stuff, but so, for example, when i worked in the pentagon i did my masters i
The early modern era. And by that i mean, essentially, three things. First, the origins and the rise of capitalism around the atlantic beginning in the late 16th century and continuing thereafter to the present. Secondly, the establishment of european dominance around the world. This is another major theme to which the slave trade is connected. And then finally, we are talking today about one of the very foundations of American History. America is the result of the meeting of three very old cultures, and you might say continents. People from europe, people from west africa, and people from native america. So today were going to talk about one of those three pillars. The african slave trade. Now, i want to begin with a quote by a very eminent africanamerican scholar activist named w. E. B. Dubois. Heres what dubois said about the atlantic slave trade. Dubois wrote the most magnificent drama in the last thousand years of Human History is the transportation of 10 million human beings out
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