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It has been a very moving experience, and im sure that will continue with our panel right now, which is a Panel Focused on the radicalization of reconstruction. , will introduce our speakers as others have done all at the beginning here, and then they will come up and give you some more wonderful food for thought. Julie saville is associate professor of history at the university of chicago. She is a specialist in African American and caribbean histories and the author and editor of numerous books, including the work of reconstruction from in southwage labor carolina and she is currently working on a study of popular politics and resistance to reenslavement in the caribbean after the haitian and french revolution. Blackcus will be on mobilization in the aftermath of american emancipation. Carol amberson is associate professor of history at the university of buffalo. Her research focuses on the role of violence and shaping our social, political, and cultural world. She published beyond r
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