we will begin this weekend with alice baumgartner she recalls lives of slaves escape the south from mexico. would like to welcome everyone to this webinar. we are tremendously gratified by your interest. in joining us we have hundreds of you out there today which is very, very exciting. we are here to engage in a conversation with my usc friend and colleague alice baumgartner and distinguished american historian from texas a&m university. this is all being made possible by the publication of alice s book, south to freedom, runaway slaves to the civil war. an exciting project of the intersection of a number of fields. the history of mexico, the sectional crisis of civil war, the history of slavery. it is a remarkable accomplishment, i want to congratulate alice on the publication of the book. and i want to think the professor for joining us as well. our plan is to have professor baumgartner offers some opening remarks and imagery on the making of this work through talented s
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an unbreakable bond, inspiring america. nightly news begins right now. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, there was so little time to flee as near 90-mile-an-hour wind gusts and plunging humidity set a wildfire exploding overnight into a deadly and destructive rampage outside gatlinburg, tennessee. thousands were driven from their homes, some fleeing with little more than the clothes on their back. this evening, scores of homes and businesses are left in smouldering ruins. we learned today, at least three people have been killed. it s happening southeast of knoxville, around the popular resort areas of tennessee s great smokey mountains. that s where kerry sanders has the latest. wow. reporter: the fire storm exploded in seconds. hit the gas, hit the gas! reporter: residents and vacationers thought they were safe, until they that s all we had was panic. we could feel the heat coming off it w
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an unbreakable bond, inspiring america. nightly news begins right now. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, there was so little time to flee as near 90-mile-an-hour wind gusts and plunging humidity set a wildfire exploding overnight into a deadly and destructive rampage outside gatlinburg, tennessee. fleeing with little more than the clothes on their back. this evening, scores of homes and businesses are left in smouldering ruins. we learned today, at least three people have been killed. it s happening southeast of knoxville, around the popular resort areas of tennessee s great smokey mountains. that s where kerry sanders has the latest. wow. reporter: the fire storm exploded in seconds. hit the gas, hit the gas! reporter: residents and vacationers thought they were safe, until they looked out their windows. panic. we could feel the heat coming off it was nothing but red. oh, my god, it s so