Of virginia literary award for nonfiction and the peoples choice award and for two decades, greene has worked for several newspapers, including the boston globe, the san diego uniontribune, the Richmond Times dispatch. And greene also holds a masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy school. She currently resides in richmond, virginia, with her two daughters and ben raines is an Award Winning environmental journalist, filmmaker and charter captain who lives in fairhope, alabama. Range is the author of the last slave ship the true story of how the clotilde was found, her descendants and extraordinaire ari reckoning and raines wrote and directed the underwater forest. An Award Winning film explores a 70,000 year old Cypress Forest found off the gulf coast and wrote and produced the pbs documentary americas amazon the mobile tents for delta and raines earlier work saving americas amazon the threat to our nations most biodiverse river system speaks to the environmental dive
All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. It is a pleasure to be here. This afternoon of the southern festival books to share a conversation with two incredible authors, christine green and ben raines. Thank you for creating these works and the tremendous depth and value traditionally of americas history of domestic slave trade. So before we get started, ill do a couple of deductions for our two authors, and then i have a couple of questions for them to open up a discussion and then well have a q a, which you guys can access the microphone over here, and then well wrap up. So christian green is a newspaper journalist, the author of the Devils Half Acre the untold story of how one woman liberated the south, the most notorious slave jail, and the New York Times bestseller of some things must something must be done about Prince Edward county, which receives a library of virginia literary award for nonfiction and the peoples choice award and for two decades, greene ha
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