the gilder lehrman center hosted this event. it is 1:45. >> okay. good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon, everyone. i was in a bunch of southern churches recently. you either do it right or you don't do it. you know? welcome. i am david blight, director of the gilder lehrman center for the study of slavery, resistance and abolition. this is the lecture series, we founded, i don't know, at least, six, seven years ago now in honor of my colleague, david brian-davis in the front row. david was the founder of the center some 13 years ago. and another way of putting it, the center was founded around david's work. which is still where everyone goes to understand, especially, the intellectual history of the problem of slavery in the world for that matter. david was doing a kind of transnational history of this before anyone ever used the word transnational. so, welcome, david. and, we have done this in many different forms. we have had a single lecture. go away people, three, four days in a row. we have had panels. we have had series of lectures and so forth. some times we produc

yale university's gilder lehrman center hosted this event. it is about an hour and 45 minutes. >>> good afternoon, everyone. >> good afternoon. >> i was in a bunch of southern churches recently. you either do it right or you don't do it. welcome. i am david bright director for gilder lehrman center for abolition. this is the lecture series which we founded at least six, seven years ago now in honor of my colleague david brian davis, right here in the front row. david was the founder of this center, some 13 years ago. another way of putting it is the center was founded around david's work, which is still where everyone goes to understand, especially the intellectual history of the problem of slavery in the world for that matter. david was doing a kind of trance national history of this before anyone ever used the word trance national. welcome, david. we have done this in many different forms, had a single lecture, go away with people for three or four days in a row. we have had panels, series of lectures and so forth. sometimes we produce a bo

i am david blight, director for gilder lehrman center for slavery resistance and abolition. this is what we call the david brian lecture series, which we founded, i don't know, at least six, seven years ago now in honor of my colleague david brennan davis, who is right here in the front row. david was the founder of this center, some 13 years ago. another way of putting it is the center was founded around david's work, which is still where everyone goes to understand especially the intellectual history of the problem of slavery in the world for that matter. david was doing a kind of trance national history of this before anyone ever used the word trance national. welcome, david. we have done this in many different forms, had a single lecture, go away with people for three or four days in a row. we have had panels, series of lectures and so forth. sometimes we produce a book. today, we are just going to hopefully produce a really lot of interesting hot air on a subject on a subject that has i think some currency. this is of course the civil war sesquicentennial. if you haven'