Inform everyone that this lecture will be recorded and available for later viewing. My name is Angelique Moss and im the chairwoman of the alexandria khan sister City Committee. We are a volunteer City Committee that promotes educational and Cultural Exchange between the city of kahn and normandy and the city of alexandria here in virginia. This is the first of two programs that we will be hosting this year for the 78th anniversary of dday. Tonight is my pleasure to welcome back dr. Holian. For our 12th annual dday commemoration lecture dr. Kim bernard holian was a professional historian with the us army for 34 years where he received commendations from the late John Marshall secretary of the army and president ronald reagan. He is the recipient of the 2008 joseph l harsh history award for the Northern Virginia association of historians and the clover recipient of the 2016 T Michael Miller alexandria history award from the alexandria historical society. His father served in the Us Army
Discussing fugitive slaves and the coming of the civil war at the end of presentation. The speaker will take questions from the floor. We have two roving microphones. If you have a question or indeed a comment, please raise your hand and the microphone will find you. So further ado, please welcome me. Help. Welcome dr. Blackett to the podium. Dr. Richard blackett. Thank you. Okay. Good to see so many people gathered in the morning on a saturday morning, of all things. Uh, makes reminds me of my. 9 00 class as an undergraduate when people were forced to be. Huh. Okay. I wish to use to fuze fugitive slave incidences as to our discussion today. The first involve the failed attempt to escape on the pearl from washington, d. C. In april 1848. The second the successful freeing of Daniel Webster otherwise known as daniel danger. Freed from philadelphia in april, 1859. They provide a useful symmetry. The on the eve of the discussion about the need for a more stringent fugitive slave law, the a
Blackett, andrew jackson, professor of history emeritus at, vanderbilt university, discussing fugitive slaves and the coming of the civil war at the end of presentation. The speaker will take questions from the floor. We have two roving microphones. If you have a question or indeed a comment, please raise your hand and the microphone will find you. So further ado, please welcome me. Help. Welcome dr. Blackett to the podium. Dr. Richard blackett. Thank you. Okay. Good to see so many people gathered in the morning on a saturday morning, of all things. Uh, makes reminds me of my. 9 00 class as an undergraduate when people were forced to be. Huh. Okay. I wish to use to fuze fugitive slave incidences as to our discussion today. The first involve the failed attempt to escape on the pearl from washington, d. C. In april 1848. The second the successful freeing of Daniel Webster otherwise known as daniel danger. Freed from philadelphia in april, 1859. They provide a useful symmetry. The on the
Professor of history emeritus at, vanderbilt university, discussing fugitive slaves and the coming of the civil war at the end of presentation. The speaker will take questions from the floor. We have two roving microphones. If you have a question or indeed a comment, please raise your hand and the microphone will find you. So further ado, please welcome me. Help. Welcome dr. Blackett to the podium. Dr. Richard blackett. Thank you. Okay. Good to see so many people gathered in the morning on a saturday morning, of all things. Uh, makes reminds me of my. 9 00 class as an undergraduate when people were forced to be. Huh. Okay. I wish to use to fuze fugitive slave incidences as to our discussion today. The first involve the failed attempt to escape on the pearl from washington, d. C. In april 1848. The second the successful freeing of Daniel Webster otherwise known as daniel danger. Freed from philadelphia in april, 1859. They provide a useful symmetry. The on the eve of the discussion abou
From the floor. We have two roving microphones. If you have a question or indeed a comment, please raise your hand and the microphone will find you. So further ado, please welcome me. Help. Welcome dr. Blackett to the podium. Dr. Richard blackett. Thank you. Okay. Good to see so many people gathered in the morning on a saturday morning, of all things. Uh, makes reminds me of my. 9 00 class as an undergraduate when people were forced to be. Huh. Okay. I wish to use to fuze fugitive slave incidences as to our discussion today. The first involve the failed attempt to escape on the pearl from washington, d. C. In april 1848. The second the successful freeing of Daniel Webster otherwise known as daniel danger. Freed from philadelphia in april, 1859. They provide a useful symmetry. The on the eve of the discussion about the need for a more stringent fugitive slave law, the attempted escape from washington was just one of a series of dramatic escapes that, including henry, sprung from this ci