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SUMMARY Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly was born enslaved in Dinwiddie County in 1818. For more than thirty-seven years, she labored for three different branches of the Armistead Burwell family. At fourteen, she began ten years of bondage in the household of Burwell’s eldest son, a minister in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where she endured repeated physical abuse and sexual assaults and eventually gave birth to a son. Sent back to Virginia, she was enslaved in the household of Anne Burwell Garland and her husband, Hugh Garland. In 1847, Garland moved his household to St. Louis. By then a skilled se...

[inaudible conversations] >> good evening. welcome to the sylvan historical society. i am mark wetherington and i thank you for joining us for i know what will be a interesting program "thomas nast" the father of modern political cartoons with dr. fiona deans halloran. and i want to thank you for being here. i was remarking this was the first time i can embed in a while that we had sunshine only started this evening's program so i appreciate you coming in and being with us. our mission is to tell the significant story of the ohio valley region and culture in a part of that culture an...

>> you're watching booktv on c-span2. coming up next, fiona deans halloran recounts the life of political cartoonist thomas nast. a regular contributor to harper's weekly, mr. ness made popular the donkey and elephant as symbols of the democratic and republican parties. this is about 40 minutes. >> good evening. welcome to the filson historical society. i'm the director and i want to thank you for joining us tonight for what i know be a very interesting program, "thomas nast: the father of modern politcal cartoons" with fiona deans halloran. i want to thank you for being here. i was ...

a part of the culture and political culture or cartoons. weaponize cartoon collection your. we have one example of actually thomas nast cartoon over here that our speaker might have time to point to later, and we'll see. if we have any additional questions, the curator concerted bring up to speed. if you're not a member, we would love to have you join us. we are private, nonprofit historical society and not supported by government funding. we would appreciate your membership. this is the commercial part of our program. i will now move along to watch you were here. i want to thank c-s...

one of them, joseph holt, judge advocate general who had been responsible for the trial, but the other was his superior edwin stanton. so perhaps i will leave it this way. the next day after i saw those documents from the war department, i sent a short note to secretary stanton which read, dear sir. public considerations of high character constrain me to inform you that your resignation as secretary of war will be accepted. may i tell you what he said in response? dear sir, public considerations of a high character constrain me to inform you that i will not resign the office until co...