And professor of africanamerican studies at princeton. Shes a specialist in the 19th and 20th century histories, and she specializes in Gender Race Labor and the history of the United States south a little bit about her publications, which are multiple awardwinning her most recent book is bound in Wedlock Slaven free black marriage in the 19th century published in 2017 a book about africanamerican and marriage in the 19th century the winner of multiple awards including the mary Nicholas Prize from the organization of american historians the Jordan Kelly memorial prize from the Aha Littleton Griswold prize from the aha and a variety of other prizes that the list goes on and on. Let me also mention her first book to join my freedom southern black womens lives and labors after the civil war another multiple prize. Book and a wonderful book about africanamerican women in the Post Emancipation south so dr. Hunter is agreed to come here Today And Talk with us specifically about the history o
To be talking about the meaning of freedom, and i wanted to capture our sort of earlier discussions about the meeting of freedom when we thought about free communities free black folks in the north and the south and how we kind of came up with this way of representing freedom as freedom of the line through it not quite freedom. To freedom right this question of freedom. And what did it mean and so for today were going to be talking about what did freedom mean and in particular when we think about what it freedom means to the freed people, right . And in 18 january of 1865 secretary of War Edwin Stanton and Union Journal general William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah, georgia. They were preachers pastors late church leaders, and they wanted to find out from these preachers. Basically. What is it that free people wanted from freedom . What did they expect in particularly want to know what they expect in the aftermath of the Emancipation Proclamation . And the group o
This event and provided the video. It is my pleasure to introduce nicole myers. Nikole turner is a sister professor of religious studies. She earned her phd in history at the university of pennsylvania. Her masters in divinity new york and her bachelors degree in political science. From high referred college. She is the author of this sole liberty the evolution of black religious politics imposed emancipation virginia. Before asking her the first question, i want to mention that this appears in this kind of conventional version of a hard copy it also has two other versions. Part of what makes her work so interesting is that it makes it possible to it is available as a conventional verbatim open access ebook and also as an enhanced open access ebook which shows off what dr. Turner was able to do with mapping and Digital Technology in order to develop her research findings. So one of the things i hope we will get to talk about today is how she worked with those sources and what kind of c
Athough originally it was county courthouse of philadelphia. But in the years that washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives , each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. Around 3. 75ulation million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our
Before asking her the first question, i want to mention that this appears in this kind of conventional version of a hard copy it also has two other versions. Part of what makes her work so interesting is that it makes it possible to it is available as a conventional verbatim open access ebook and also as an enhanced open access ebook which shows off what dr. Turner was able to do with mapping and Digital Technology in order to develop her research findings. One of the things i hope we will get to talk about today is how she worked with those sources and what kind of comments she thinks digital humanities holds in this research into africanamerican history in particular. Dr. Turner,t off tell us about this book. Dr. Turner thank you so much for having me. The book is about the evolution of black women and politics. The main goal of the book is to his store if i black churches. Commons a very understanding of black churches as already politically engaged. The aim of my work was to narrat