. >> host: who was latasha harlan. >> guest: a 15-year-old girl who walked into a liquor market, a grocery store, in march, 1991, and close to her home in south central los angeles and picked up a bottle of orange juice that cost 1.79, putin is in her backpack and went to the counter with the $2 in her hand, the shopkeep us thought she was trying to steal the juice. a fight began. latasha was knocked down and -- she was shot in the back of the health one of the major cases that began the eruption that we now know as the 1992 riots insurrection or rebellion. >> host: booktv talked to you about the book before. >> guest: yes, we had a wonderful conversation. i hope it's in your archives where people can go back and see it whenever they want to and learn more about her and the book, and the events of this time. >> host: it is in our archives but we're here to talk to you about your most recent book, called "what is slavery? " what is the answer to that question? >> guest: well, slavery is an institution, a bondage that is hat really been a part of who we are as a people since the very beginni