Vanderbilts divinity library. And im so excited to be today with hala allen, who is author insurrection. Hawa is attorney and author whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune los angeles review of books lathams quarterly and the baffler, amongst other publications, she lives and works in new york city. Now, as a side note, the southern festival of books remains completely free. And we want to keep it that way. So please visit us on the web at ww dot humanity tennessee dawg to donate or you can also donate via the festival of books app. So how is going to read for us and then well a conversation and well open it for an audience. Q a and when the q a starts, please the mic in the corner just get better audio. However, take it away. Thank you very much because so im going to read from third chapter of the book called a house divided, which largely talks about the insurrection act invocation during the civil war and leading up to the civil war, which is interspersed with my personal n
Hello, everyone. Good. My name is kashif andrew graham. I am outreach librarian, religion and theology of vanderbilts divinity library. And im so excited to be today with hala allen, who is author insurrection. Hawa is attorney and author whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune los angeles review of books lathams quarterly and the baffler, amongst other publications, she lives and works in new york city. Now, as a side note, the southern festival of books remains completely free. And we want to keep it that way. So please visit us on the web at ww dot humanity tennessee dawg to donate or you can also donate via the festival of books app. So how is going to read for us and then well a conversation and well open it for an audience. Q a and when the q a starts, please the mic in the corner just get better audio. However, take it away. Thank you very much because so im going to read from third chapter of the book called a house divided, which largely talks about the insurrection act
City. Now, as a side note, the southern festival of books remains completely free. And we want to keep it that way. So please visit us on the web at ww dot humanity tennessee dawg to donate or you can also donate via the festival of books app. So how is going to read for us and then well a conversation and well open it for an audience. Q a and when the q a starts, please the mic in the corner just get better audio. However, take it away. Thank you very much because so im going to read from third chapter of the book called a house divided, which largely talks about the insurrection act invocation during the civil war and leading up to the civil war, which is interspersed with my personal narrative from which im going to share this excerpt and the subtitle for. This portion is irrepressible conflict. I had much interest in history. The subject in and of itself was not the source of my disinclination. I was educated in a Public School district in Suffolk County island that was well resour
All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. It is a pleasure to be here. This afternoon of the southern festival books to share a conversation with two incredible authors, christine green and ben raines. Thank you for creating these works and the tremendous depth and value traditionally of americas history of domestic slave trade. So before we get started, ill do a couple of deductions for our two authors, and then i have a couple of questions for them to open up a discussion and then well have a q a, which you guys can access the microphone over here, and then well wrap up. So christian green is a newspaper journalist, the author of the Devils Half Acre the untold story of how one woman liberated the south, the most notorious slave jail, and the New York Times bestseller of some things must something must be done about Prince Edward county, which receives a library of virginia literary award for nonfiction and the peoples choice award and for two decades, greene ha
This is a bbc news special on the day President Trump was impeached a second time. The resolution is adopted without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Donald trump becomes the first us president to be impeached twice a week after the riots on capitol hill. After some republicans sided with democrats to vote for impeachment, the president addressed the nation to again call for calm. I unequivocally condemned the violence i unequivocally condemned the violence that we saw a sweet. Violence violence that we saw a sweet. Violence and vandalism have no place violence and vandalism have no place in violence and vandalism have no place in our country and that place in our country and that we place in our country and
that we saw all week. A heavily fortified us capital to prevent more violence. Donald trump is accused of inciting an insurrection. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Another historic day here in washington. President trump