Every year. The speaking portion is almost always free and open to the public and we are able to do that because you come here and you buy your books and you buy your stocks and your greeting cards and we really appreciate it. Our guests will be speaking tonight. The event will be recorded by cspan. Extra special reminder to silence your cell phones. After our guest is done speaking about the book there will be an opportunity to ask questions and we will have mikes available so that your questions can be picked up as well. If you would like to stick around afterwords and get a book signed we can accommodate that. We just ask you first purchased the book downstairs. They are available when you walk into the store at the information desk so tonight we are excited to welcome back to the store h. W. Brands. He is a professor, who holds the senior chair in history. He is New York Times bestselling author of 30 books on us history. If you can keep history that interesting that you can write
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