Booktv sat down with repressor transport to talk about her book, help me to find my people, which looks at my separations during slavery and the rest of the unit families after emancipation. This interview is connect on campus of the universe in North Carolina and is part of the booktv scholar series. Its about 40 minutes. Professor Heather Andrea williams, in 1863, what was generally displeased population in the u. S. . Probably about 5 million in the American South at that point. Slavery had been abolished in northern stayed and i think it is important to say that just because many people dont realize there have been slavery in the north. By the 1820s it had been places like new york and massachusetts answers lavery then continued in the south to about 5 million. Host of those 5 million, how many do you think were displaced from families . Guest it is so difficult for me to speak in terms of numbers. It really is because i get it thin pieces of information and part of the point of th