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and in part we do have daniel mary to thank for that because that assistant librarian of congress helped put together an exposition in 1900 on the works of negro authors and that included paul jennings. this in contrast to solomon northrop, 12 years of slaves. there were 8,000 copies printed and sold in just the first month when it came out in 1853 and many thousands and thousands followed. i am grateful to dangle murray and the library of congress that jennings s memoir is still there. and i thank you for preserving our heritage and i thank you for your kind attention. [applause] we are grateful to beth not only for the research that went into this story but also to highlighting a little bit of the library of congress history and our own story. part of the american story. we are not done yet. we have a question and answer period. i did not mention deliberately that this discussion is going to continue on facebook. where you can learn about your own remarks to the ongoing d

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