Postcode tv is on the campus of Duke University in durham, North Carolina, where we are talking with professors and scholars about some of their book. Joining us here is Deborah Hicks. Her book, the road out the road out a teachers odyssey in poor america. What do you do here at duke first of all . Guest i have a couple of things that i do. I am part of a researching occult social Science Research institute and that is the unit composed of people doing research in the social science and disciplined and i do a lot of research. Im also a social entrepreneur, so i direct the nonprofit called page, partnership for appalachian girls education. And there i work with appalachian girls in middleschool and help them get Educational Opportunity and access. I have a couple different hats i wear at the university. A researcher in our social entrepreneur. Host social entrepreneur. Is that a new term . I think it was coined by nicholas kristof. It was a widely used term. People like you basically di
Efforts to reunite families after emancipation. This was conducted on the campus of the university of North Carolina and is part of the booktv college series. It is about 40 minutes. Host professor Heather Andrea williams, in 1863, what was generally the slave population in the u. S. . Guest probably about 5 million the native American South at that point. Slavery has been abolished in northern states. I think it is important to say that just because many people dont realize there had been slavery in the north. But by the 1820s, it has been abolished in places like new york and massachusetts. Proslavery then continued in the south. There were about 5 million. Host of the 5 million, how many do you think were displaced from their families . Guest it is so difficult for me to speak in terms of numbers. It really is. Part of the point of the work is nobody is keeping track of people. I point out that not everybody experiences, but large numbers. If most of them did or if a third of them d