On them that we see today. Booksedores 2011 an illustrated guide to virginias Civil War Monuments is the First Complete catalog of virginia from monuments. It is more than a catalog. It is this that he of ideology and meaning and provides a window of what the people who erected them were thinking at the time and wanted to say. Has finished a similar study of tennessee monuments and is working on another one about mississippi. His wonderful wife patricia is a morehat she monuments and more states than anybody else in the union [laughter] rawls i think that the two of them have seen more monuments in any of the states than any of the residents of the state. Remarks today are entitled words, breath, text and landscape virginia Civil War Monuments in the context of tennessee and mississippi monumentation. Dr. Timothyan, sedore. [applause] gentlemen, dr. Tim othy sedore. [applause] dr. Sedore good evening. Im very pleased to be here to speak to you about monuments, specifically monuments in
My honor to open this occasion with a libation. This comes from the people of ghana, west africa. It is an ancient form of prayer. I will continue in the language of english. You will hear me say various words. What i am doing is offering up theks to the creator, to energy of the creator, and to our ancestors, especially Harriet Tubman. This is a is maturing activity. So we would like for you to join i would like for you to join me in this. So when you hear me say this will, i would like you to respond. Beautiful. Dr. Adwoa tano [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] dr. Adwoa tano host ya. [speakingtano foreign language] to the oldie mighty Divine Energy of the greater, we call on you. Tubman,other, harriet we call participation from you. He daughter, we call you to come and drink. Daughter Harriet Tubman, masterful perception, we call you to come and drink. Harriet tubman, divine warrior woman, of justice, of freedom, of liberation, of sovereignty, of truth, we call
The libation i will be performing comes from the okung people in ghana. It is an ancient prayer. Language,ak in the and then i will continue in the language of english. You will hear me say various words. What i am doing is offering up thanks to the creator to all of , the representatives of the creator and our ancestors, especially Harriet Tubman. This a participatory activity. So, we would like for you to join, i would like for you to join with me in this. When you hear me say the word, ensah, i would like for you to respond yah. Ensah. Audience yah. Beautiful. [speaking in ghanian] yah. Yah. Yah. The Divine Energy of the creator, we call on you yah. To our beautiful queen mother, Harriet Tubman, we call on you. Yah. The daughter of a we call you we call on you. Yah. Masterful conductor, we call you. Yah. Divine warrior woman of righteousness, of justice, of freedom, of liberation, of truth, we call you yah. The one who said i could have freed 1000 more if only they knew there were e
Figure, Harriet Tubman. Its a name we know, its a name we affiliate with the underground railroad, but we sort of forget after that she lived another 50 years, some remarkable 50 years after the civil war. Tonights speaker is here to bring us up to speed and date on that in a lecture thats sponsored by sa dechlio, so well thank them for that tonight. As you probably know, Harriet Tubmans face is due to grace the front of the 20 bill very soon and our speaker Catherine Clinton [ applause ] and our speaker Catherine Clinton is one of the people that helped to put her there. In fact, her biography of Harriet Tubman was praised a revelation. Not bad. Harriet tubman is probably an appropriate subject for her because im going to tell awe little bit about catherine and shes been in perpetual motion her entire life as well. She grew up in kansas city, missouri, and sefd her undergraduate from Harvard University followed by a ph. D from prince ton, university. She specialized in American Histor
Courtmartial proceeding. She was working as a nurse in South Carolina and the Court Transcript allows us to hear her in her own words. After the war, she received the pension as a widow of a union veteran, nelson davis who had served as a private in the 8 United States colored infantry. Years after she died, tubman petitioned congress for additional benefits for her own service outlined in her affidavit as nurse and cook in hospitals and commander of several men, eight or nine, as scouts dpurg the late war. Congress received numerous documents and letters supporting tubmans claim and they, along with her affidavit are here in the records of the niets house of representatives. Tubmans pentagon was increased to 20 for her service as a nurse. Tonight, a distinguished panel will discus the life enlegacy of Harriet Tubman and ongoing presentation efforts of her birthplace. Ms. Ross is feeling in for robert f. Parker listed in our program but unable to be with. Dr. Jones is the University Ar