Youre watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Next, university of buffalo professor Carole Emberton discusses the privation of poverty among freed slaves during reconstruction. She describes the governments to provide aid by establishing the Freedmens Bureau and compares the debate over poverty relief efforts during reconstruction to some of those today. Portion of the 2014 civil war and posey hosted by the u. S. Capital historical society. It is about 45 minutes. Come, ihose of you have am the codirector of the u. S. Capital historical society. Justice, they the junior visiting professor of lsu law school. There is an odd connection to paul aber. Is why the law school and lsu is named for him. The various about aspects of war crimes so it is a very interesting connection. Our next speaker is Carole Emberton who is an associate professor of history at the university of buffalo. Carole works on the civil war era as does everyone else here. Her first book was
Aspects of war crimes so it is very interesting connections. Our next speaker is Carole Emberton who is an associate professor of history at the university of buffalo. Carole works on the civil war era as does everyone else here. Her first book was beyond redemption race, violence and the american south. She is currently working on a book that will be titled a folk history of freedom, dealing with the federal projects, writers projects and the interviews of former slaves during the depression era. Her paper today is a hungry belly and freedom rations, refugees and reconstruction after the civil war. I am delighted to introduce Carole Emberton. [applause] thank you, everyone, for coming to spend a portion of this glorious spring day inside with us. Since i am it is kind of fortuitous since i am the last speaker before lunch that i will talk a lot about food. Let me get started here. There we go. The slaves in winnsboro, South Carolina, anticipated the arrival of william t. Shermans troo
There is an odd connection to paul ayber because he was one of the judges at nuremburg the law school in lsu is named for him. We will talk about the various aspects of war crimes so it is very interesting connections. Our next speaker is Carole Emberton who is an associate professor of history at the university of buffalo. Carole works on the civil war era as does everyone else here. Her first book was beyond redemption race, violence and the american south. She is currently working on a book that will be titled a folk history of freedom, dealing with the federal projects, writers projects and the interviews of former slaves during the depression era. Her paper today is a hungry belly and freedom rations, refugees and reconstruction after the civil war. I am delighted to introduce Carole Emberton. [applause] thank you, everyone, for coming to spend a portion of this glorious spring day inside with us. Since i am it is kind of fortuitous since i am the last speaker before lunch that i
January 1st 1930. If there was a draft, it would have me as later year. It was so prevent me from going to war but i ended up. Tell me about your family. Beautiful family, wonderful neighborhood. Primarily italian. Some jewish but primarily italian. We had lots of activity because of the abundance of males. A lot of sports were involved. No baseball. No baseball fields. How many siblings . Two more. An older brother. They are both deceased. All boys . Yeah. What school did you go to in new york city . Ps 112 was my grammar school. Ps 112 . Yeah. Your grammar school. In brooklyn. Junior high school was shallow Junior High School from the 9th to the 12th grade. No, the Junior High School was the 10th to the 12th. Whats whats the name of it . Shallow was the Junior High School and then texile. It was a School Sponsored by some textile guy. Part of the curriculum is you had to take one season, one semester of textile. Kind of internship . Right. When did you graduate . 1946. What did you d
If memory serves me correctly, my mom kept the three or four letters that she got from me and i read those many times after i came home. Yes, she got them. I got three or four letters from home. My sister wrote to me every three or four days. We didnt get all the mail that was sent to us. I know that for sure because my family members a lot of them wrote letters to me but i didnt get that many. I got a few. You still keep the letter . When did your family and parents know that you are in the camp . As you may know we were carried as mia for a long time. They had no confirmation of my status until about august or september of 51. There was an exchange of information between the chinese and our government. They did have large number of pows. I dont know when this information was passed or when either side honored what the other side said. As far as the status of the troops, i dont know. I believe that my mom and dad got word that we were no longer mia that we were pow. Pow. They didnt kn