>> here's a look at some authors recently featured on book tvs after words, our author interview program. while governor john kasich reflected on his 2016 presidential campaign. colorado representative ken wasser said introduction in washington and his plans for reform and washington times national security, columnist bill gertz provided his thought on how the united states can out beat global competitors in the information age. in the coming weeks on after words, msnbc host chris hayes will look at racial inequality in the united states. wheeler will explore sexual assault on college campuses, rachel schneider and jonathan mora will report on how low moderate income families manage money and new york

times correspondent kayleen cooper will explore the life of liberian president ellen johnston shirley, the first democratically elected female president in african history. >> the women were so hell-bent on getting her elected president, that though they do it anyway they could and so the women were perfectly happy to play dirty as well and ellen johnson sweet found the perfect vehicle for that, somebody who was so-called at all about playing any dirt with security order so it was a number of things that the reporters did. they bribed guys to give them the voter id card so when the men showed up and wouldn't be able to vote. all the young boys voting for the football player, a lot of them their moms stole their voter id cards so they couldn't vote. there were two rounds, first round and second round and a lot of the young men realized

they would need their card after the first roundabout in the second round so that's how the women were able to get around men. they were parked at bars up and down the highway. give me your card for a cold beer, give me a card for this. there was all this and they did it at the polls, women past the same baby around to different women because if you were a nursing mother you could cut in front of these lines and vote in front so they passed the same baby around to women. there were all sorts of things and then there was this great, they did this video that george wheeler had made when he was playing in italy for the italian soccer team. in which he appeared in a commercial buck naked in front of white women. >> back commercial, there's a little different but they

unearthed this video, it was 14 years old and just drop it down in the middle of the liberian political state in liberia as i mentioned earlier as this weird mix of bible spouting puritanism and deep racial anxiety and having this video show up just got the women mad because they saw this as a rejection of black women. the men were jealous and either way it was a loser issue. it was just as perfect , so they were still a lot of suffrage. >> to get ellen johnson elected. >> after words airs on book tv every saturday at 10 pm and sunday at 9 pm eastern. you can watch all previous afterwards programs on our website, booktv.org. >> the third major character in this mess is william lloyd

garrison and william lord garrison for those of you who are familiar, he led the abolitionist movement went on to become one of the most famous if not the most famous white male abolitionist in history. he was the founding editor of a periodical known as the liberator. and he also was involved in the founding of many of the principal and slavery societies that challenged slavery in 1830, 1840 and 1850s. and so this begins with a speech that he gave on independence day in 1829. and he gave the speech for the american colonization society and in 1820 the most prominent and powerful racial reform organization became the american colonization society, a society geared for ending free back black people back to africa. and thereby sort of encouraging the sort of

gradual abolition of slavery and getting rid of those newly freed people and sending them back to africa. it was interesting for white. the time knew they had been hard geared against their will on shift and now the nation was talking about sending them back to africa on ships but this very prominent sort of organization was invited garrison to speak and their annual fundraising event in boston on independence day in 1829 and in this speech, garrison was this young editor, he had started the liberator yet. he's this young editor and he says in his speech that i'm sick of our hypocritical camp about the rights of man. we should be demanding a gradual abolition of slavery, not promoting colonization. and then 10 days later, garrison went to a black

church in boston. and went to a celebration of england's abolition of the slave trade so black people in boston would annually celebrate abolition of the slave trade and at this event, a white clergyman addressed the crowd and during his lecture, he advocated that emancipation right now was not wise or prudent. and that black people needed along period of time qualifying them for freedom. basically black people were not ready for freedom and so garrison when this speaker said this, he heard this murmur go through the crowd, he saw the crowd get angry without saying so and her this murmur and it caused him to think back about what he said in his speech 10 days

earlier when he advocated this gradual abolition of slavery and he thought about that as he walked home that night. and he thought about the immediate emancipation, a while vision? he described it as this wild vision in his speech or was it wilder to stand on some sort of middle ground between what he was calling sinful slavery and righteous freedom so he said i have nothing left to stand on. and by august 1829, garrison had moved to baltimore and became the co-editor of this prominent abolitionist periodical called the genius of a universal emancipation and he wrote no valid excuse can be given for the continuance of the evil of slavery but single hour and he would then become the principal advocate of what became known as immediate emancipation. and i say this to talk very briefly about over the next 30 years they became this three-way debate about

slavery and race in america with three physicians, garrison took the position of immediate emancipation. others took the position of gradual emancipation. and then a third group took the position of permanent slavery. and these three positions were indicative of a larger racial debate over the core of american history. on notions of equality for racial equality and that debate i'm referring to is chronicled through the history from the beginning of debate continues with the end of chattel slavery had three preconditions. one was permanent inequality. and this position stated that yes, there are all these racial inequalities and inequities in our society and they are caused by black inferiority and black inferiority is permanent

though there's no way we can have anything other than racial inequities and inequalities in our society. that's one been one position over the course of american history. a second position has been gradual inequality in this position has stated that black people are inferior right now. and so yes, even if we were to create equal opportunity, we would not have racial inequality because black people right now are inferior but we have the capacity to civilize and develop black people such that one day we will be able to create equality. this is the second position on race historically in america and the third position has been what i call immediate equality. and it is this position, the antiracist position that suggests the racial groups are equal and that even if we were to provide equal opportunity for black people, then we would be able to create racial equality

because there's nothing wrong or inferior about black people and that's really what garrison spent the next 30 years promoting as related to slavery. we need to end slavery right now because black people are ready for freedom. you. >> watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> welcome to redding california, located in the northern part of the state along the sacramento river, this city of about 60,006 at the top of california's central valley. with the nearby shasta dam playing a key role in the distribution of power. redding was a major mining

hub during therailroad boom from the mid-1850s to the turn-of-the-century. with the help of our charter communications partners over the next hour we will travel the city and talk with local authors about their work including the stories of a california game warden . >> i work in a case for over a year involving that. there was a bald eagle that was an endangered species and was shot and left at the front gate and the commission game officer in redding. there was a note attached to the eagle threatening the life of one of the wardens that was my supervisor at the time. >> later we go inside the shasta public library view selected items about the area from their special collections. but first, we learn about the redding writers forum and the impact it had on the literary community in california. >> so we're thinking more this week about how to get our writing done in turbulent times and remember those of you are disenfranchised, that into your writing and flesh out your characters a little bit more. >> continue to write as

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