discuss their son's life and death and experience with the judicial system. and reporting on america's bank and credit system and how it affects the general public. senator sheldon whitehouse offers thoughts on legislative decisions influenced by private business. the former chief of the new york city internal police bureau describes his work investigating corruption in the police force. and syl sylvia tara talks about how our body deals with fat. >> amazingly our brain size is linked to fat. there are people who have a genetic defect with fat and they have smaller brains. our reproductive levels are linked to fat.

even our immune system. it is amazing how many systems in our body are linked to healthy fat. booktv airs every saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> about 20 years ago i was doing research on my first book about african-american women in the north. i came across an advertisement for a runaway, an enslaved person who had run from the president's house in philadelphia may 1796. and i was, sort of caught up looking through microfilm at old newspapers but this made me pause and i said wait, who is this person who ran away? she was named oni judge who the

advertisement and i thought wait a minute. i don't know this person. that was troubling to me because this is my era of expertise. i am supposed to know all this stuff and i had no idea who she was. there was something very compelling about this advertisement. it never escaped me. i said i am going to come back to this important story and i am going to try to trace this woman. i need answers. so i finished the first book and here i am, many years later. it was a lengthy process in attempting to recover the work and life of ona judge. this is recovery work. for those of us who do specifically early african-american history doing this kind of work in archives

where the evidence is slim, factual evidence often doesn't exist because people of color, women in particularly, often remain outside of the archives. so what i will say is that there is absolutely no way i could have written this book had i not written by first book. that is my plug for graduate students and people doing the work of academics. i needed a grounding in order to be able to write this book about a woman who iseally just absolutely magnificent. when you read this book, you will be blown away by her life. now, many folks here in this room and of course at mount v vernon this is no new story. you are among a small group of people, well actually now i hope there are many more that know her, that is the expectation.

i want her name to become one of those sort of household names like a fredrick douglas, like a heriot tubman because she runs away decades before they do. so the title, i will give you a sort of quick story about the title "never caught". this was my first choice for the title of the book and presented it to people at the publishers and they hated it. they said it gives away the story, erica. i said, yeah, but so does "12 years a slave." ....

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