Founding director, that is how we say it,. The first book a fragile freedom African American woman and emancipation in the antebellum city published by yale extremely well regarded an important study of an understudy topic up to that point and also the perfect person to take on the challenge to recover the story of on the judge. Lets all give erica a big round of applause. applause good evening everyone. Happy black history month. Here i am. First let me offer few thankyous to doug who invited me. I really think that there is no other place that i should be giving this top. Can you all see me im vertically challenged. Ill turn this. Lets see. Better . Yes. Okay. Id also like to thank the minimally for helping me with arrangements to arrive here. Its been a very busy week. This book just came out on tuesday of last week and so im an academic, as doug said my first book was published a University Press and this book is more of a crossover trade book for a larger more general audience. On
Of the museum of africanAmerican History. They should have called you the founding director. Her first book, a fragile freedom, africanamerican women d emancipation in the an antebellum city. Published by yale. An understudy topic up until that point. The perfect person to taken to challenge to recover the story of ona judge. Lets give erika a big round of applause. [applause] good evening, everyone. I would like to thank steve and emily for helping me with arrangements to arrive here. It has been a very, very busy week. This book just came out on tuesday of last week. And so as doug said, my first book was published with Yale University press and this book is more of a sort of crossover trade book for a larger more general audience. So it is a very different experience. Been rewarding. Im a little tired. Forgive me if my voice goes in and out. Ive been talking more than usual. And to be where the story of ona judges life began. What i will do tonight is talk a little bit about i will
They should have called you the founding director. As we say around here. Her first book a fragile freedom African American women and emancipation published by yale extremely well regarded and important study of an understudied topic up to that point and so the perfect person to take on the challenge to recover the story of owna judge lets give erica a big round of applause. [applause] theres no other place i should be giving this talk. Good evening, everyone. Happy black history month. Here i am. So, first, let me make offer a few thank you. Of course to Dunn Bradford who invite saidd invited. Meechlt i think there is invited me. I think there is no better place to give this talk. I would like to thank emily for helping me with arrangements. It has been a very, very busy week. This book just came out on tuesday of last week. And so as an academic, doug said my first book was published with Yale University press and this book is more of a set of crossover trade books for a larger, more
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Welcome everybody. My name is Doug Bradburn, founding director of the library for the study of George Washington here at beautiful mount vernon and delighted to welcome you all again for a wonderful evening of conversation in history. And i would also like to welcome the cspan audience who was recording as the cd. Its great to have you back in the library. Will these evening book talks are special for friday of reasons because we get to bring exciting new historians to the eager community, but also because it sponsored by forbes which is been a great donor to mount vernon for many, many years. As you all know Mount Vernon Ladies Association does not take any government money. Its completely private institution based on philanthropy a base of people coming to the estate. So we depend on groups like the ford family and the Ford Motor Company has supported mount vernon, since henry ford gave the first fire engine to mount vernon to keep the Mansion House and burning to the ground. So as s