Watch American History tv, tonight and over the weekend, on cspan3. All right. Since we have a very ontime sort of calming of the room, i am going to go ahead and kick us off. Thank you, so much, for coming to the violence in american politics panel. As i think we will see it as an incredibly timely panel. And a really good time to be putting these topics into the context of a broader American History. So im going to start off by introducing our panel. And then everyones going to give their opening statement. And then, we will start the conversation. So who is sitting right next to me is t. Cole jones. Assistant professor at purdue university. He is author of captives of liberty prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Reserve lugz, which will be released this fall by the university of pennsylvania press. In addition to his book, hes published articles in the journal of the early republic, the journal of military history and the new england quarterly. He is curren
Book, captives of liberty prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Revolution history professor t. Cole jones illustrates inhumane conditions inside 18thcentury prison camps and examines how the Continental Congress dealt with the problem of thousands of pows, a population that sometimes outnumbered the American Army. Next, professor jones discusses his book at the American Revolution institute of the society of the cincinnati. Dir. Mccallister clark good evening, everyone. Its so nice to see you here this evening. So many good old friends and new faces. I am ellen mccallister clark, the Library Director at the American Revolution institute of the society of cincinnati. It is my very special pleasure tonight to be the one to introduce t. Cole jones, who us thisspeaking to evening about his new book captives of liberty prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Revolution, which has just come out from the university of pennsylvania press. We hav
Federal government debated political and legal definitions. Professor turner also discusses of religious role and educational institutions in newly freed africanamerican communities. Professor turner ok, so today, we are going to be talking about the meaning of freedom and i wanted to capture our earlier discussions about the meaning of freedom when we talked about free communities, free folks in the north and how we came with this representation of freedom. Reedom the question of freedom and what does it mean. For today, we are going to be talking about what did freedom mean . In particular, what did it mean to the free people . In january of 1865, the secretary of war, Edward Stanton and general William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah, georgia. They were preachers, pastors, lay Church Leaders and they wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that the freed people wanted from freedom . What did they expect . And what did they expect in the after
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Fisher about the center of the city. Standing near are the spanish governors palace, which was set up here due to the conflict between two european empires, france and spain, in the 18th century. Spain had, of course, established itself in latin america and south america and mexico and northern mexico, especially important to spain because of very rich silver mines. It reached up to the northern border. It was along the red river where it was causing trouble with the indians. Its reach down into the silver mines. Was goingrds knew it to come up on san antonio and in 1618, 302 years ago, san antonio was established here. The first challenge they faced was getting water. The first thing the priests did was to build a church. The second thing they did was set up a water system. Yous you have looked have rivers but you dont have green fertile areas. They drew from their experience in spain which actually came from the roman empire. A system of irrigation ditches drinkingalso furnished wate