Nat turner, a troublesome property. It is my honor to introduce to you kenneth greenberg. [applause] mr. Greenberg well, its a great, great pleasure to be here. When i left boston this morning it was snowing. My plane had to be deiced, but i arrived in paradise. This is a lovely place. I have never been to the campus before, and you have absolutely gorgeous campus. The town is wonderful as well. My hosts have been extremely gracious, and my subject matter is about one of the most difficult subject in American History. There is controversy every step of the way and battles every step of the way in terms of all the people who have tried to natbout net turner turner. First, im going to sort of tell you about my own history with turner andut nat turner. About nat it covers a fair amount of territory. Then i want to just zero in on a few areas in more detail. Let me begin by describing a couple things. , when i was in graduate school, i first encountered nat turner because we had assigned i
Slaves to resist their masters. He also talks about the consequences of the rebellion or other slaves in the south. This event was part of the university of Mary Washingtons great lives lecture series. [applause] good evening. Im the associate director of great lives and i am pleased to service your host and emcee along with courtney over here helping this evening with q a. Im pleas to bring your attention tonight to our sponsor, the dovetail Cultural Resource group. Theme join me in thanking for their support. Tonights lecture is on net turner, a nat controversial and sometimes very difficult figure to deal with but we are in good hands tonight, i promise it. Kenneth greenberg is a distinguished professor of history at suffolk university. The author of masters and statesman, the political culture of american slavery. And are you ready for this one . Duels,nd slavery, lies, ases, masks, dressing as woman, gives, strangers, humanitarianism, death, slave rebellion, baseball, hunting and
Question and answer format to facilitate our discussion. I will be asking questions for the first 30 minutes or so, then for the next 40 minutes well turn the program over to you, members of the audience to ask questions. Youll be invited to come to the microphone ther center of the room. Whenout your turn, please fivous and briefly, briefly, ask you question. Immediately after we conclude mr. Shriver will be available in the activity building to sign copies of his book. Mark shriver is the author of the book toy pilgrimage my search for the real pope fran tis president of the save the Children Network in washington, dc and a form maryland state legislator, this is mr. Shriver res second book. Er is first book a good man, rediscovering my father, Sergeant Shriver was a New York Times and Washington Post best seller. Mr. Shriver has a wife and three children. For those who have not yet read the book i thought i would share with you a review about the book which will give you an introduc
I needed a grounding in order to be able to write this book about a woman who is really just absolutely magnificent when you read the book, youll be blown away by her life. Now, many folks here in this room and of course at mt. Vernon, this is no new story. We know about ona judge and you are among a small group of people who actually now happy there are many more who know her. This expectation. I want her name to become one of those sort of household names, like a frederick douglass, lake Harriet Tubman because she rubbed away decade before they do. Sew so the title a quick story about the titling never caught. This is one Motor Vehicle first one of my first choices for the title of of the book ann the perfected hated it. They said gives away the story, erica. I said, yeah, but so does 12 yours a slave. Only, we understand, it was 12 years, going to end at some point. With never caught this is a history of how a woman who was a fugitive, never found freedom. She was never free. She si
I said it was obsolete, it is no longer obsolete. Dickerson we will take a look at the emerging trump Foreign Policy doctrine, including last weeks syrian missile strike. Further deterioration of our relations with russia, and the u. S. Decision to drop the mother of all bombs on an isis stronghold in afghanistan. This was another very, very successful mission. Dickerson then we will talk to pulse prize winning author David Mccullough about what history can teach us about living in Uncertain Times and on this sunday celebration of easter and pass over we will look at the role of faith in the face of crisis. It is all ahead on face the nation. Dickerson good morning and welcome to face the nation. Ian joh John Dickerson and begin this morning with new developments overnight in north korea. Cbs news Foreign Correspondent ben tracy filed this report earlier from pyongyang. The failed Missile Launch took on north koreas east coast sunday morning. It is unclear what type of missile it was,