[applause] good evening. Thanks for coming on on what was a nice day today. Welcome to the lecture on Harriet Tubman. You probably know we are in a Harriet Tubman revival right now. A new appreciation of an iconic figure. It is a name we relate with the underground railroad. We sort of forget that after the underground railroad, Harriet Tubman lived for another 50 years. Some remarkable 50 years after the civil war. Tonights speaker is here to bring us up to speed and uptodate on that in our lecture. [applause] as you probably know, Harriet Tubmans face is due to grace the front of the 20 bill soon. Our speaker, Catherine Clinton, [applause] Catherine Clinton is one of the people that helped to put her there. In fact, her biography of Harriet Tubman was praised as a revelation. Not bad. Harriet tubman is probably an appropriate subject for her. I will tell you a little bit about catherine. She has been in perpetual motion almost her entire life as well. She grew up in kansas city, miss
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