history university of massachusetts at amherst, or should he sits scorches at ability history, slavery, emancipation, and native american history. first book, which i have four in front of me, her book entitled black slaves, indian masters, slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the american south. it s quite a title. published by the university of north carolina press. this book details the untold story of the enslavement barbara has also co-authored a photographic history of slavery, emancipation and freedom published in 2013, published by temple university press, and it is also for sale in our bookstore. tonight, she will be speaking about her recent work and the top is entitled envisioning emancipation, black americans and the end of slavery. please welcome barbara. (applause) well, hello, good evening. thank you for saying this late into the night. thank you for saying awake. thank you, peter, for the invitation and the introduction, and allison, who has made sure
and lincoln forium chair. welcome back to c-span, sir. guest: thank you for having me. host: you had a recent op ed talking about the topic of confederate monments and statues and a position now you re taking that with a little bit different. what s your position now? guest: well, if i could go back briefly. a few years ago i had the honor of speaking at the getiesburg national cemetery where the flag behind me is from the anniversary of the getiesburg address. i made a suggest sort of impor tuned people to consider contect liesing confederate monments. making sure that there were alternative monments. and frankly nothing happened in the three subsequent years. it s not an easy thing to make occur. it s expensive, time consuming, requires consensus on text and methodology, and it didn t work. and since that time, other convullsive events have occurred most recently of course the killing of george floyd and the response has been directed at monments among other institutions th
megan in oakley. how are you? doing just fine. congratulations on your reopening. how s business today? busy, a little nerve-wracking but we re doing really well. do you have a waiting list? how long is the wait? can you give us a sense for that? i m about two months booked out. depends on the stylist. we ve had three months of clients so you can imagine the chaos that comes along with that. is it because you don t have enough space in the salon? yes, and also extra sanitization time but our stylists booked every day so that s 90 days of, well, probably 60 days of clients that you are fully booked every day and then here we go. doors are open and it s a mad dash to try to get everyone in while abiding to the laws and regulations. so you re extending your hours? we are, we are. high risk mondays where our clients who are higher risk will be allowed to come inurg times. and seven days a week, whatever they need to do to make that happen. megan, i know during
what s your position now? guest: well, if i could go back briefly. a few years ago i had the honor of speaking at the getiesburg national cemetery where the flag behind me is from the anniversary of the getiesburg address. i made a suggest sort of impor tuned people to consider contect liesing confederate monments. making sure that there were alternative monments. and frankly nothing happened in the three subsequent years. it s not an easy thing to make occur. it s expensive, time consuming, requires consensus on text and methodology, and it didn t work. and since that time, other convullsive events have occurred most recently of course the killing of george floyd and the response has been directed at monments among other institutions that are deemed by many to be op pressive particularly confederate monments in the public square. and i did write an op ed recently during which i said that i think i was wrong. that we ve had enough time, we ve had a century for these statues o
it, (202) 748-8001. if you are unsure, (202) 748-8002. you can also text us at (202) 748-8003, message us on twitter at @cspanwj, and on facebook at facebook.com/cspan. a harris it was from poll that was released on the 23rd of june. 58said that at the time, percent of respondents said the statues should remain, while 42% say they should be removed. a number of confederate monuments were torn down in cities across the united states recently. if you go to the u.s. news website this morning, an activity that took place yesterday in georgia this is reuters reporting a predominantly black group of heavily armed protesters stormed through a park in atlanta, calling for the removal of the confederate rock carving that the site that civil rights activist consider a monument to racism. many were dressed in paramilitary style clothing and wearing face scarves, quietly parading down the sidewalk at the park. supremacists have historically used stone mountain as a rallying spot of t