i am deeply excited about this conversation where about to enjoy between fatima shaik in jennifer eganmy hall: the hiden history of a free black brotherhood." fatima, jennifer, please take it away. >> hello, fatima. >> hello. >> hello, everybody. thank you so much for being with us. i am incredibly excited to have a chance to spread the word about this remarkable book which i been talking with fatima about for some years now but which has surpassed my every expectation in being a work of history that has an enormous sweep, covers a lot of ground, , has a tremendos importance and yet is so readable and fun. so i thought, it's a very complex work, and i thought maybe the best place to begin with be really where you began, fatima, in your introduction. tell us how this book came to be. be. it really is t a w story that bs with your father. >> sure. thank you, jennifer. thanks to everybody for being here. this story, my father found some journals in the trash in the back of a junk truck and brought them home and he put them in the closet. he found that in the 1950s and they sat in my attic

i am very excited about this conversation we are about to enjoy between fatima shaik and jennifer egan on "economy hall" "economy hall." fatima and jennifer please take it away. >> how low fatima. hello everybody. thank you so much for being with us. i'm incredibly excited to have the chance to spread the word about thisnc remarkable book whh i've been talking with the team about for some years now. which has surpassed my every expectation in being a work of history that is an enormous leap covering aor lot of ground of tremendous importance and yet so readable and fun. it's a very complex piece of work and i thought the best placewo to begin would be where you begin fatima at the inception. tell us how this book came to be. it's a story that begins with your father. >> thank you jennifer and thanks everybody. up we found some journals we brought them home with i was already a writer but i saw all of these journals and realized this was about history. >> can you describe what are the journals station that them? >> guest: the meeting of economies and organization of black meant that sta

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