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Musical guest, john mayer, and featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 585 Rochester Steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon . . . . [ cheers and applause ] hello. Hey welcome, everybody. Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it. Youre here. [ cheers and applause ] you made the show. Youre here. Thank you very much. Heres what people are talking times person of the year just came out. And they include donald trump, hillary clinton, mark zuckerberg, vladimir putin, and beyonce. [ light laughter ] putin was like, most of group is weak, but even i cannot compete with queen b. No, i mean, lets be come on. [ cheers and applause ] speaking of beyonce, both she and adele got a bunch of grammy nominations today. They were each nominated for record of the year, song of the [ cheers and applause ] marking marking the first time in 2016, that america has two finalists that they actually like. [ laughter and applause ] yeah, thats very interesting.
[please stand by] [please stand by] [please stand by] 3372 children. 57 children. Unlike most wars in this case, refugees are running towards the. Ine they were giving birth out of slavery because it was meaningful, even though it was even birth in a war zone. It was often ugly, against fence posts, women finding whatever they could to cut on the local court straight cut umbilical cords. They need to bury the placenta, so they looking for places to do that and they are determined to do that even if they are in a place of deprivation. This is a reconstruction from the point of view of midwives of invention. This was ingenuity in the face of great crisis. Midwiferygraph is in school at penn school at saint helena island, where a. Uccessful refugee camp is your is picture of refugees in the rain. Shoes and water. These are not familiar scenes in the same way we see the gero type. But shoes and water are all over the record. You cant get through a page another plea, another action motivate
In 1861. It started in these refugee camps. Im going to start with two stories. The first one might be familiar. The story of how the contraband decision got handed down. It happened Important Role virginia. Baker,ownsend, James Shepherd mallory get a boat where the union just arrived. There are confederates all around and these gentlemen had been building confederate fortifications for their master. They knew they were about to go to North Carolina and would be leaving their families and they decided to chance it. Next morning, a confederate soldier comes under flag of truce and says, please return the slaves. Were rebels really entitled . Werent they foreign country . You say you are a foreign country. Said, im confiscating these three men as contraband property of war. He even gave the confederate soldier a receipt. This spreads incredibly quickly. It is an in between status. Property likee of smuggled goods but you are a person. But whatever the ambiguities of contraband, it defini
K examined. Ve emotions in reconstruction politics. Most recently, dr. Summers published this book, the ordeal of reunion, and it is already sold out in our bookstore behind you. There will be more copies coming. A volume that alongside eric boehners classic reconstruction. It is that important of a book. Mark summers has the task to frame the reconstruction era for us. He is going to raise the Big Questions of this period, and it is my pleasure to introduce professor summers. [applause] thank you very much, peter, and thank you very much, allison, for the great work that you and the others have done to put this together. All of you need to synchronize your watches. The last applause was at 20 minutes until 7 00, so at exactly 20 minutes until 8 00, somebody raise my hand if i am still talking, and we will start applauding. I am uneasy, i have to say, on here on this podium for several reasons. It has been a long time since i have been here. I usually like to thread my way for my way t