A cellphone or participate in the technology from peoples lives. I am a throw back from my boyhood. I was born in 1932. In a little town called ocean city, new jersey near atlantic city. My father and mother owned a store, had a dress shop, tailor shop. My father made beautiful suits. My mother made a lot of money and made nothing but an sold womens dresses with great success. When you a child of shopkeepers anything around, after school i went to Parochial School and after coming home in two or three in the afternoon, i hang around the store and have some chores to do and in my mothers case when she sewed a dress there was cardboard boxes that had to be folded into form and tissue paper and my mother would insert the address into the tissue paper and i do that. I made the boxes. Id hang around and eavesdrop. I was ten or 12 or 13 and i listen to the conversations in the middle of the afternoon in my mothers dress shop and the dialogue between my mother, a very curious woman of italian
A cellphone or participate in the technology from peoples lives. I am a throw back from my boyhood. I was born in 1932. In a little town called ocean city, new jersey near atlantic city. My father and mother owned a store, had a dress shop, tailor shop. My father made beautiful suits. My mother made a lot of money and made nothing but an sold womens dresses with great success. When you a child of shopkeepers anything around, after school i went to Parochial School and after coming home in two or three in the afternoon, i hang around the store and have some chores to do and in my mothers case when she sewed a dress there was cardboard boxes that had to be folded into form and tissue paper and my mother would insert the address into the tissue paper and i do that. I made the boxes. Id hang around and eavesdrop. I was ten or 12 or 13 and i listen to the conversations in the middle of the afternoon in my mothers dress shop and the dialogue between my mother, a very curious woman of italian
Southampton county, recruiting slaves and killing more than five dozen white men, women and children, more than killed ever in any slave revolt in united states. Examining the terrible choices faced by slaves and also the deep disagreements among whites about how to respond to the rebels, todays speaker will discuss new ways of thinking about nat turner, his revolt, southampton county, and even american slavery itself. Patrick breen is an associate professor of history at Providence College and the author of the land shall be deluged in blood. He has published articles in the journal of the early republic, the virginia magazine of history and biography, and the Oxford University press anthology of nat turner. With the release of the movie birth of the nation, how many of you have seen birth of a nation . The new version. [laughter] thank you. Far fewer. How many have seen the old version of birth of a nation . I still worry about you people sometimes. [laughter] with the release of the
Nat turner, a troublesome property. It is my honor to introduce to you kenneth greenberg. [applause] mr. Greenberg well, its a great, great pleasure to be here. When i left boston this morning it was snowing. My plane had to be deiced, but i arrived in paradise. This is a lovely place. I have never been to the campus before, and you have absolutely gorgeous campus. The town is wonderful as well. My hosts have been extremely gracious, and my subject matter is about one of the most difficult subject in American History. There is controversy every step of the way and battles every step of the way in terms of all the people who have tried to natbout net turner turner. First, im going to sort of tell you about my own history with turner andut nat turner. About nat it covers a fair amount of territory. Then i want to just zero in on a few areas in more detail. Let me begin by describing a couple things. , when i was in graduate school, i first encountered nat turner because we had assigned i
Slaves to resist their masters. He also talks about the consequences of the rebellion or other slaves in the south. This event was part of the university of Mary Washingtons great lives lecture series. [applause] good evening. Im the associate director of great lives and i am pleased to service your host and emcee along with courtney over here helping this evening with q a. Im pleas to bring your attention tonight to our sponsor, the dovetail Cultural Resource group. Theme join me in thanking for their support. Tonights lecture is on net turner, a nat controversial and sometimes very difficult figure to deal with but we are in good hands tonight, i promise it. Kenneth greenberg is a distinguished professor of history at suffolk university. The author of masters and statesman, the political culture of american slavery. And are you ready for this one . Duels,nd slavery, lies, ases, masks, dressing as woman, gives, strangers, humanitarianism, death, slave rebellion, baseball, hunting and