They stand for coming out here on this lovely saturday evening. We are very pleased to have steve waldon to talk about his new book. Sacred liberty. It is about religious freedom and what steve calls in the subtitle, americas long, bloodied and ongoing struggle for that freedom. These days we tend to think of a religious freedom as a basic fundamental principle of our democracy and one we take very much for granted. But our countrys history as they recount in a fascinating history is filled with examples of religious prosecution. In just the opening pages of his book, he recall stories of ministers brutalizing baptist ministers around the time of the resolution, the American Revolution and later catholics and jews from holding office, the banning of native american spiritual practices, attempts to exterminate women and much more. All of which underscores and despite the First Amendment, the struggle to ensure religious freedom in the United States has indeed been challenging and compet
Remarks in just a moment from ron dermer, the israeli ambassador to the u. S. He is one of the speakers at the Antidefamation Leagues annual leadership summit. Follow that a panel on the agenda and the 2016 collective. This is live here in washington, d. C. [applause] welcome back. How our workshops . So it seems that earlier today we slide atlanta and i want to apologize. We would like to both recognize the regional Board Chairperson from atlanta and the National Civil rights chair. Thank you. [applause] we are seeing a lot of great reads and posts from social media. Please keep at it. Dont forget these are social networking sites to share your discussions with friends and family. And please use the hashtag adls somewhat. Thank you. Adl summit and hashtag might adl story. So welcome back to the National Leadership summit at Antidefamation League. The nations premier civil rights and human relations agency. For more than a century we have worked to fulfill our dual mission of fighting
Israel and the jewish people. We are grateful to be with us today. Mr. Ambassador it is great to have at our podium please join me to welcome him. [applause] bone appetit. I hear the clinking of the plates. It is the pleasure to have an opportunity to speak at this conference that brings in leaders from across the country and it gives me on behalf of israel and said to think jonathan. Where is he . It still gives me the opportunity. [laughter] and the many others who work day after day, to fight the definition of the jewish people and the jewish state has embassador my mission is to regain since israels interest in washington and strengthen the relationship between israel and america. The sheer that has included focusing on ways to combat the aggression and terror working and efforts between the israelis and palestinians into opposed him in the International Arena with the memorandum of understanding with military assistance to israel that i hope we can conclude soon. But today i want
I guess the one point that i would make is in 2012, 60 of ae residents voted to become u. S. State. They are u. S. Citizens and have the rights and obligations of all other citizens, except they do not vote for president. That is no different than the people here in the district of columbia. They do fight in the military and the members of congress to care about them, the same with the care about other u. S. Citizens. Host coming up, Daniel Lipman for politico will join us. Blank will be on to talk about the delays and long lines , and thet security impact on the travel season. In dan duluth will talk about president obama becoming the third u. S. President to the is toto visit the anon visit vietnam. Be sure to watch washington journal live at 7 00 eastern sunday morning. Join the discussion. This sunday night vanity fair columnist and slate magazine founder talks about his new book old age, a beginners guide on living with parkinsons disease. Brain disease. That is a nonsensical ques
And so right around the same time that that first sugar crop was being granulated, indigo was not really a viable crop anymore. So this plantation transitioned at some point after that by about 1805. It was planted in sugar and it remains planted in sugar till today. Sugar is still a Huge Industry in south louisiana and all around us our historic cane fields still planted in cane that is still sent off to the domino sugar refineries. So three generations in this plantation. Over the course of the 100 plus years that they owned this land, there were many successful generations of people who were enslaved here and so the population would have shifted over time with Market Forces. The highest number that we ever have recorded at one single time of enslaved people in this land is 101, but we believe that thats a little low. We think there were perhaps as many as 200 people enslaved at the highest point. We have record of people that weve found, 357 over the course of that 100 plus years, b