Recipient of numerous fellowships including the National Endowment for humidityities. Boston globe calls the slave clause a powerful look at the struggle to end slavery in the United States. Its as multifacetted as the movement it chronicles. Sinha we are so very delighted to have her joining us. Please join me in welcoming manisha sinha. [applause] thank you for that generous introduction, so as you can probably tell from the size of this book. I have said almost everything wanted to about abolition in it. So today i will just briefly outline the book. The slaves cause is a comprehensive history of abolition that reevaluates it as a radical, interavailable, social interracial, social movement. From far nature rowing the boundaries of freedom as selfownership and legitimatizing new forms of servitude and modern forms such as slavianor, abolition gave birth to other political passions. Not restricted to wartime emancipation, the American Abolitionist Movement unfolded in 100year drama,
So, im busy, but its a fun stuff and i really in deeply satisfied with being able to communicate. Its fascinating stuff out there. I could talk to you for hours, tangents building a robotic bricklaying machine that has been the dream of engineers for pretty much 50 or 60 years. The machine is named sam. You might sit on it jobsite somewhere. It looks like a hotdog cart with a red arm that grabs a brick and put mortar on the, and does it again and again and again. Im going to make you care about bricks. [laughter] thanks so much for talking with us today. [appla [applause] thanks to everyone for coming. We now have our book signing and signing area one. That was fun. [inaudible conversations] when i tune into on the weekends as usual its authors sharing their new releases. Watching the nonfiction authors on booktv is the best television for serious readers. They can have a longer conversation and delve into the subject. Booktv weekends. They bring you author after author after author th
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