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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 has worked for several newspapers, including the boston globe, the san diego uniontribune, the Richmond Times dispatch. And greene also holds a masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy school. She currently resi...

Of virginia literary award for nonfiction and the peoples choice award and for two decades, greene has worked for several newspapers, including the boston globe, the san diego uniontribune, the Richmond Times dispatch. And greene also holds a masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy school. She currently resides in richmond, virginia, with her two daughters and ben raines is an Award Winning environmental journalist, filmmaker and charter captain who lives in fairhope, alabama. Range is the author of the last slave ship the true story of how the clotilde was found, her descend...

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 you do see a lot of people. A lot of people who are very dignified. Theres nothing you can do, you know, youve just got to live with your life. Thats one thing i love about my people. If it wasnt for that none of us would have realized what happened. You are watching booktv on cspan2, radiance of tomorrow, ishmeal beahs second book is coming out in january of 2014. You are watching 40 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan2s booktv. Now on booktv from the Jimmy Carter Library and museum, Brendan Koerner talks about hijacking of western Airlines Flight 701 in 1972 by vietnam war vete...

Comrades decided to hijack a plane from new york to cuba he spent 41 years living in cuba that he decided to come back to the United States and reunite with his wife and adult daughter. And he was arrested the moment he stepped off the plane in jfk. I was interested because of the fugitive and exile that was my sri spot and attracted to but i thought how can you get away with the hijacking for 41 years . I was vaguely familiar with the period of American History when the jet planes to cuba but i did not know much about it so i started to look and i was overwhelmed by the sheer number of hijack...