Wenqing ngoei said that the United States was successful in the regional strategy. This is about 90 minutes. All right. Everyone, i would like to call us all to order. Good afternoon. And welcome to this afternoons session of the washington history seminar historical perspectives on international and national affairs. Im eric arnesen of George Washington university and im the cochair of this seminar along with Christian Ostermann who represents the Wilson Center. As you may see, we have cspan taping here today so we would like to welcome those of you who are watching on your computers or on your Television Screens and suggest that you visit the website to learn more about the Seminar Series and upcoming speakers here at the Wilson Center. The washington history seminar is a collaborative effort of two organizations. The Woodrow Wilson international for scholars and history and Public Policy program and the american Historical Associations National history center. We are in the ninth ye
From cotton. Thousands of workers, dock workers and people in the shops, people who worked in the hotels and gambling houses and brothels where plantation owner would come up and treat new york city as their home away from home during the summer months. Everybody was in various ways dependent on maintaining the cotton trade, which means they sought in their best interests to maintain the plantation system and slavery. New york workers also feared that if the four million mill enslaved in souse are south were subtly set free they would flood up north and take their jobs away. The big irony there is that the 12,000 free blacks in new york city, the exact opposite was going on. White workers took their jobs from them, froze them out of the unions, so there one really going to be a problem with fighting for the white white guys fighting for jobs again black workers. So because of cotton and because of to the ties and that long and Enormous Economic tie to the cotton south, the majority of,
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone. I would like to welcome you to this afternoons session of the washington history seminar and for those of you who dont know the seminar is a joint project of the Woodrow Wilson Centers History and Public Policy program and the american Historical Associations National history center. My name is eric arnesen and im from George Washington university. Im the cochair on behalf of the National History center of the seminar. As is our custom i want to thank two people whose behindthescenes effort makes the seminar possible on a weekly basis. At amanda monies and pete. Its their logistical work that allows us to pull this off. I would also like to express thanks to shafer the society of Foreign Relations whose generous contributions support the seminars activities. Todays speaker is Bartholomew Sparrow who is a professor of government at the university of texas. He is the author of multiple works including from the outside in, world war ii an
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone. Id like to welcome you to this afternoons session of the washington history seminar, and for those of you who dont know the seminar is a joint project of the Woodrow Wilson Centers History and Public Policy program and the american Historical Associations National history center. My name is Eric Arn Ericsson from George Washington university, and i am the cochair of this seminar. As is our custom, i want to thank two people whose behindthescenes efforts makes this seminar possible on a weekly basis amanda no moniz and pete [inaudible] i would also like to express thanks to the society of historians of Foreign Relations whose generous financial contributions support this seminars activities. Todays speaker is Bartholomew Sparrow who is a professor of government at the university of texasment he is the author of multiple works including from the outside in world war ii and the american state, the insular cases and the emergence of the am
Session of the washington history seminar to order. I want to welcome everyone to this seminar subtitled historical perspectives on international and National Affairs this afternoon. We will be focusing on a new book by the princeton historian Laura Edwards titled only the clothes on her back clothing and the Hidden History of power in the 19th century United States published by oxford university, press in late, february and joining us this afternoon as discussions are martha jones of Johns Hopkins and Megan Sweeney of the university of michigan. Im eric arneson from the George Washington university cochair of the washington history seminar along with my colleague Christian Osterman of the Wilson Center who cannot be here today. The washington industry seminar is a collaborative nonpartisan venture of the woodrow Wilson Centers history and Public Policy program and the american Historical Associations National history center. And for over the past decade the seminar has been meeting we