Good morning. Good morning, and welcome to the new York Botanical garden to parking lot library were are are very glad that you are here many my cohost david scone so on his way director of the darvin manuscript project at the museum of Natural History joining us soon. Special welcome to the other Staff Members and researchers from the American Museum of history very pleased youre here and thank you, thank you. And also to the students and research from fordham university. The pleasure to have you here. This morning, our focus, of course, is darwin. All of you have a special relationship with this man. And today well focus on his backyard experiments and dr. James costa will guide us through this story. Hes inspiring scientist and claimed author of the new book. Dada darwin backyard and you have or already seen that you are actually able to purchase a year after the presentation, and have doctor costa with jim so well call him spernl personal message for you. While people are standing
Important africanamerican narratives of freedom of africanamericans in the United States. Douglas gave a series of lectures that reflected on the meaning of photography at its earliest moments in the culture history. He was so fond of the new technology that he sat fairly regularly for portraits of himself over the course of his very long career. This is one of the earlier pictures of Fredrick Douglas. Host why did he write an essay about photography and when . Guest he wrote 23 essays on photography right around the end of the civil war. He wrote these eskay essays and they were speeches at first that reflected his excitement for the new technology that was cheaper and therefore accessible to persons without means. They were swift in reproduction and many could be made. He thought it had a great possibility for showing the nation what the freed men and women could look like and help the nation visualize free africanamericans as an essential part of the country. It made it a useful and
I certainly would. My wife and kids wouldnt like that but maybe she would come and that would be great. Theres a love interest. As i said, it is to explore. Its been a command kind beyond earth is the name of the book the history, science and future of the human Space Exploration at the Washington Duke in the ram North Carolina what are we licking at . This is the image of a Young Frederick douglass very well known 19th century abolitionist. Im very famous for his that has become to be known as one of the most formative and important in the narratives of slavery and freedom in the United States. This image is particularly important because douglas himself gave a series of lectures that reflected on the meaning of photography at its earliest moments and he himself was fond of the technology that he sat fairly regularly over the course of a very long career and this is one of those early portraits of the young hero like, strong, hard featured frederick douglass. Why did he write an essay