history of slavery, and in particular, the experiences of enslaved women. we already had a chance to look at the case of harriet jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. there, jacobs introduced us, if you will, to that dimension of slavery that is exemplified, and we might say central to the experience of slave women, and that is sexual violence. we will come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today, that of celia. we also looked at the wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed about those narratives was the extent to which some issues, including sexual violence, violence generally, and sexual violence, in particular, was rather muted in the slave narratives. and so here we have an with this case to take another pass at this question, to try to see this dimension of slavery through the experience of celia. so, why do i say try to see this dimension of slavery? as you have all begun to see in your readings for today, t
i am from tennessee, chattanooga. and i m thrilled to sit here today with the senator to discuss suffrage history. let get started. absolutely. our first question. tennessee has such a pivotal role in the story of women s fight for the revote. do you have a favorite moment or suffragists from the story of tennessee s battle for the 19th amendment? when you look at this battle you have to say the entire environment is the favorite moment. when you think about it as the war of the roses and the attitude the suffragists carried in, they were civil. we were gracious. they were polite. they met 40 at the hermitage hotel. someone when they had who was pro-suffrage they gave them a yellow rose to pin on their lapel. so when you talk about favorite moments you have to talk about that attitude that seems to permeate this. we are going to get it done. we are going to get it done right. we are going to get this job finished. enough, tennessee had suffered clubs all across the stat
this picture on the left is that real? oh yes. [laughter] not a wig. i would guess 71. i think a martian left i did not make enough sense to be communist or prosecutor. went to the transformation occur? it was gradual. there is a book coming out from the hoover institution. who is backing this and why i turned right. it s a story of a bunch of us. i was a radical leftist i got a job. $150 a week i was a messenger per week that was a lot of money as far as i was concerned living on the lower east side and i was pretty broke. we get paid every two weeks. i was looking forward to $300. so is my landlord. and my drug dealer. [laughter] and other people. i got my first paycheck like is supposed to be $700 that after federal tax and estate tax and social security i have been advocating socialism. communism, marxism for years screaming and yelling and demonstrating and we already have it. they just a calf my pay. what s going on? also politics is christopher hitchens. mu
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on his undergraduate course on the topic of ordinary lives in the american revolution. and his book, stolen: five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their journey home, which tells the true story of five boys kidnapped in the north and sold into slavery in the deep south and that during attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, is being published by simon & schuster in october. thank you once again for joining us this evening, and without any further ado, please join me in welcoming dr. rick bell. [applause] dr. bell: thanks to heather, thanks to c-span for covering this. those of you who might have been to the smithsonian associates before and heard me give other programs won t be surprised to hear my strange accent, which is not exactly a maryland native s accent. i was raised in england yet find myself teaching about the american revolution as part of my job, which let me tell you is a blessing and a curse, an undergraduate classroom to teach with an accent