By way of quick introduction or not so quick introduction because, its quite the impressive bio journalists and author ernie suggs has been a reporter for the Atlanta Journal constitution since 1997, currently covering a variety of breaking news and investigative stories for page a1. He previously reported for newspapers new york city and durham, North Carolina. Hes a veteran of more than 20 years as a newspaper reporter and has covered stories ranging from politics to civil rights to Higher Education. A 1990 graduate of North Carolina university with a degree in english i have one of those to look at us both employed is my eagle pen writing well very nice yes huh. Ernie also a Harvard University nieman fellow. He is currently on the nieman board of trustees and. Hes the former Vice President of the National Association of black journalists. So please join me in welcoming suggs everybody. Thank you. Were probably going to spend most of our time talking about the subject. The book globa
All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. It is a pleasure to be here. This afternoon of the southern festival books to share a conversation with two incredible authors, christine green and ben raines. Thank you for creating these works and the tremendous depth and value traditionally of americas history of domestic slave trade. So before we get started, ill do a couple of deductions for our two authors, and then i have a couple of questions for them to open up a discussion and then well have a q a, which you guys can access the microphone over here, and then well wrap up. So christian green is a newspaper journalist, the author of the Devils Half Acre the untold story of how one woman liberated the south, the most notorious slave jail, and the New York Times bestseller of some things must something must be done about Prince Edward county, which receives a library of virginia literary award for nonfiction and the peoples choice award and for two decades, greene ha