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Take it. We get this portrait of ellen, and also william, who is supportive of her as a couple who were in love. They wanted they wanted a normal life. They wanted the same kind of life that you and i have. But they were denied that because of the laws of the slavery. That generated just a desire, unquenchable thirst to leave and get out of the state of georgia and the south. 1848, they decided they were going to leave. They planned the trip for four days, and they took off at night, they left, and they went to savannah and from savannah they caught a ship. Sailed to charleston, south carolina, and made symptom stops along the way, and finally ended up in philadelphia. But then once in philadelphia, the abolitionsist told them they wouldnt be safe in philadelphia as they would be in boston, massachusetts. Because the law in philadelphia were different than massachusetts. They helped them get to boston where there was a free black society of about 200 or 300 free blacks that had been th
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[gavel pounds] hello, welcome to tonights program at the Commonwealth Club of california. Our program for tonight food fights for the 21stcentury first century. Womens voices driving change. We have the executive director of moms across america, the founder and executive director of teens turning green and our host and moderator is the ceo of tech talk studio. Now im going to turn it over to christy dames. Thank you. Thank you to the Commonwealth Club. We really appreciate being here tonight. I am really excited to have these really powerful women. Some are moms. Some are not. My first question to deborah garcia. You have two major awardwinning films. Youre quite the vocal activist and speaker. You have a famous husband, jerry garcia. How did you come to make films about food . You have been a film maker for a long time. In 1970 when i was in college, i started making food, and because of that era, activity land, going natural about that, i became vegetarian, became kind of a organic f