The jealous and emancipated. John brown, Abraham Lincoln and struggle for american freedom. Purchased the book likely from a cappella books, there is a link in the chat at the right of your green go to the link provided on the website. Please submit your questions at the bottom of your screen. Use the q and a, it tends to be less credit that way. I will get to as many of them as i possibly can. Chair of history of the university of texas at boston, hes authored 30 books on u. S. History, the moment First Americans and biographies with both finalists. Thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure. Delighted to be back. Abraham lincoln and john brown, well covered by historians. What did you want to add to the understanding of these famous american martyrs writing about them together . I think teaching American History with 35, going on 40 years, some of the biggest questions of history are essentially questions to get down to almost moral questions. As a moral question at work here that
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
Difficult subject to deal with today. Its importance lies in its relationship to the transformation of the world in the early modern era. 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. I want to begin with a quote by a very eminent africanamerican scholar, activist named web du bois wrote, the transportation of 10 million human beings out of the dark beauty of their mother co
Discussing social justice and more im joined by my guest Michael Johnson philadelphia is a national cofounder and leader of the u. S. Tea Party Movement as well as a former white house speechwriter to president george h. W. Bush and in washington we have arlen nixon hes a retired Police Official as well as they a. C. L. U. National board member originally across the trees and then you can jump in anytime you want and i also appreciate it ok michael lets go to you in philadelphia is there a crisis of crisis of authority in america right now or a crisis of responsibility or is it both go ahead yeah i think you have to say its both. A crisis which were applied to an ongoing issue and i think thats a question were hopeful you know you haitian on both when you have an issue of Law Enforcement for predominantly Political Considerations not engaging in actually enforcing the rule of law and you have protesters in turn and i want to be clear not all protesters are to a certain faction of them
Step forward looking forward to see what following steps will will be taken in order for our industry to thrive again and welcome or customers and that perhaps is a small price to pay to get back to this new normality if businesses like these that depend so much on social interaction want to survive now be hoping that everyone not just off the customers to get used to this new slightly more antisocial way of life. Precious time with him not international will be more holidays from todays victory day parade ill be back at the top of the hour. Hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered im peter all about it is fair to say many of the protesters on the streets of america want social justice nominally speaking thats a positive message the problem is how that message is translated into concrete political demands and what happens if you dont agree with those political demands. Discussing social justice and more im joined by my guest Michael Johns in philadelphia is a nati