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weekend, every weekend on c-s n c-span3. up next, we talk with albany law school professor paul fi finkelman about capturing free men from the north. he also discusses renting slaves and how this tied nonslave owners to the slave system. professor finkelman has taught classes and written about the slave trade for many years. this takes place at the american historians meeting in milwaukee. it s about 20 minutes. american history tv is at the annual meeting of the organization of american historians in milwaukee. joining us is paul finkelman, a professor of law and public policy at the law school. thanks for being here. it s a delight to be with c-span. you re here because you re participating in a panel called new perspectives on the 19th century slave trade? right. what did you talk about in your discussion today? well, the panel talked about two pieces of the slave trade. one was the kidnapping of black children from mostly philadelphia, but also other places
[laughter] make it memorable for you. [laughter] in the pt few weeks, we with gun and number of economic reports, including today s unemployment report which we will talk about. no matter afford it is, some many of them indicate to us the fragility of this economy. some of the debate is at basic weakness is we re seeing. the gross domestic product numbers released last friday showed that the economic growth in the first half of this year was a week. growing at an annual rate of less than, unfortunately, 1% during the first half of to-11. this week we have received additional data that suggests that the pace of the recovery is decelerating. months ago we were saying was moving too slowly, and now evidence indicates deceleration. two examples of that. first, the so-called ism manufacturing index dropped to 15.9% in january, the 24th consecutive month of expansion in the manufacturing sector, but the lowest reading since 2009. on tuesday, we learned that in the month of june c
and religious movements. boston public library hosted seat and. it s about one hour and ten minutes. .. and in 1999 was elected to the american academy of arts and chair of department of africa and african african-american studies and director of the w.e.b. dubois institute of africa and african-american research. has written a number of books on history and literary criticism criticism, one which one the 1989 american book award. i suspect professor gates has appeared, his picture and biography have appeared in media around the world but this month, he appeared in something that i think will unique in his long curriculum vitae. this is the wb news, which is the monthly newsletter of the funeral home industry. [laughter] and he has a full page picture and drinks of tonight s lecture. so you are reaching many audiences. [applause] thank you. bill, thank you. are you okay? . [applause] got it? can we get the screen? thank you, bill. thank you so much for that very kind,