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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Slavery At Presidential Plantations 20180124

To situate the president ial plantations back into the history of slavery or to situate slavery back into the history of the president ial plantations. Im not entirely sure, i went back and forth on how to say that, im not entirely sure which is the right way to say it, but i think what the crucial thing to say is that we are considering the processes that have erased the obvious location of the enslaved in the histories of the presidencies. And everyone here on this panel and many of you in the audience are involved in efforts that precisely do not assume that slavery is some sort of addition or addon to the president ial histories but, rather, that the two are connected. To that end, im really excited to hear each of this afternoons speakers talk about the work that they are undergoing at the president ial plantations. So im going to introduce all of them to you now in the order in which they will speak. We have planned the presentations to allow for significant time at the end for t ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Slavery At Presidential Plantations 20180124

Good afternoon, everybody. I want to welcome everyone to this afternoons panel. Public history and public memory, talking about slavery at president ial plantations. Im jennifer morgan, im a professor of history at new york university, where i work on colonial History Office enslaved people. Im very excited to be part of this afternoons conversation. Though my role here is primarily to facilitate and to learn, the presenters here have all spent their careers working in public history and have been at the front lines of important efforts to situate the president ial plantations back into the history of slavery or to situate slavery back into the history of the president ial plantations. Im not entirely sure i went back and forth on how to say that. Im not entirely sure is the right way to say it, but what i think is the crucial thing to say is that we are considering the processes that have erased the obvious location of the enslav ....

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