Family and the active reform work in the 19th century. You will find collections about antislavery and abolition in new england, particularly connecticut as well as womens history as it relates to the suffrage movement. The center began collecting works on and by Harriet Beecher star and come as early as our founder in 1930s and 40s but she found our organization in 1931 and weve been collecting ever since. This archive archive vault was n the 1970s to house really rare documents, paperbased collection. Today well look at collections that focus on Harriet Beecher still and a how she came to wrie local pubs cabinet of her most famous antislavery novel which galvanized the Antislavery Movement towards abolition in the 1850s. These materials we look at today really are the platform for which we are able to tell her story. Without the collections and the building that she lived in we can tell her story as best we know what but these are tangible reference to the past. User papers and docum
There isnt one. That was me being very diplomatic. We are done. Thats it. I apologize. [applause] this is hopefully not a forever conversation. Professor claudes book is available. He will be with us until 6 00. Into the conversation of who we are, where we are going, and how we get there. Please join us again july next year for the 19th harlem book fair. We are working very hard towards our 20th year celebration. We are excited about that. The book fair is becoming a public conversation. Not so much the their but what happens in the book fair, such as with the professor today. So we are hoping that what we do, what we all do together is engendering many more public conversations and perhaps some ideas of how we can maneuver, manage, create a new sense of self as we move forward. So thank you for supporting the harlem book fair. Please day for the next part of our presentation, and then the award. Max rodriguez, thank you so much. [applause] this is booktv on cspan2, television for ser
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