Get started, just a few housekeeping items. First, a reminder to please silence your cell phones. Also, be sure to take a look at our web site to see some of the great events we have as we wind up the year and soon, well be posting events for 2023. And we have lots of other great things going on here, including classes and trips. Also tonight, when get to the questions, we have a standing microphone here. If you could make your way there, that would be helpful. We need you to come to the mic as we are filming and. Cspan is here and we want everyone to be able to hear your questions. And also well be posting this, our youtube station after the event and following the q a, well have a signing here at the table. So if you havent already purchased your book, we have many copies behind the register and then well ask you to start lining up here, make that possible and come by and ask for your name to personalize the books. So please have them ready for us and also, as you likely know, when t
Well, ill come to politics and prose. My name isnt karl and im the events advisor here. And on behalf of our owners and our staff, its my pleasure to welcome you this evening before get started, just a few housekeeping items. First, a reminder to please silence your cell phones. Also, be sure to take a look at our web site to see some of the great events we have as we wind up the year and soon, well be posting events for 2023. And we have lots of other great things going on here, including classes and trips. Also tonight, when get to the questions, we have a standing microphone here. If you could make your way there, that would be helpful. We need you to come to the mic as we are filming and. Cspan is here and we want everyone to be able to hear your questions. And also well be posting this, our youtube station after the event and following the q a, well have a signing here at the table. So if you havent already purchased your book, we have many copies behind the register and then well
Well, ill come to politics and prose. My name isnt karl and im the events advisor here. And on behalf of our owners and our staff, its my pleasure to welcome you this evening before get started, just a few housekeeping items. First, a reminder to please silence your cell phones. Also, be sure to take a look at our web site to see some of the great events we have as we wind up the year and soon, well be posting events for 2023. And we have lots of other great things going on here, including classes and trips. Also tonight, when get to the questions, we have a standing microphone here. If you could make your way there, that would be helpful. We need you to come to the mic as we are filming and. Cspan is here and we want everyone to be able to hear your questions. And also well be posting this, our youtube station after the event and following the q a, well have a signing here at the table. So if you havent already purchased your book, we have many copies behind the register and then well
And on behalf of our owners and our staff, its my pleasure to welcome you this evening before get started, just a few housekeeping items. First, a reminder to please silence your cell phones. Also, be sure to take a look at our web site to see some of the great events we have as we wind up the year and soon, well be posting events for 2023. And we have lots of other great things going on here, including classes and trips. Also tonight, when get to the questions, we have a standing microphone here. If you could make your way there, that would be helpful. We need you to come to the mic as we are filming and. Cspan is here and we want everyone to be able to hear your questions. And also well be posting this, our youtube station after the event and following the q a, well have a signing here at the table. So if you havent already purchased your book, we have many copies behind the register and then well ask you to start lining up here, make that possible and come by and ask for your name t
Discussing fugitive slaves and the coming of the civil war at the end of presentation. The speaker will take questions from the floor. We have two roving microphones. If you have a question or indeed a comment, please raise your hand and the microphone will find you. So further ado, please welcome me. Help. Welcome dr. Blackett to the podium. Dr. Richard blackett. Thank you. Okay. Good to see so many people gathered in the morning on a saturday morning, of all things. Uh, makes reminds me of my. 9 00 class as an undergraduate when people were forced to be. Huh. Okay. I wish to use to fuze fugitive slave incidences as to our discussion today. The first involve the failed attempt to escape on the pearl from washington, d. C. In april 1848. The second the successful freeing of Daniel Webster otherwise known as daniel danger. Freed from philadelphia in april, 1859. They provide a useful symmetry. The on the eve of the discussion about the need for a more stringent fugitive slave law, the a