so down there is mary dyer. how may people know who mary dyer is? raise your hands. okay. mary dyer was the englishwoman who was a quaker, and what was called a public friend. and she came here in 1659 when the quakers were being persecuted in boston by the puritans. and this place was a haven for the quakers. they held slaves, yes, but they also protected the quaker friend as they were carried from south pole in new haven to salem and on the boston. mayor -- mary dyer is dan and she's thinking about whether she should go back to boston from which she had been banished on pain of death. and eventually, she climbed into a little boat, maybe the same little boat easy on the back cover of my book. and she sailed off to boston and nathaniel knew that she was going to her death. and she did, too. and she was hanged on boston common in may 1660, and she was hanged from a gallows when the wind blew through her skirt -- very rare to have a woman named -- when the wind blew through her skirt and it shivered a little bit in the breeze, somebody said, she hangs like a flag. and someo

how can it be that someone like mary dyer, who was served by had at and the hannah and the 13 li whoere there not the gee have died to make a religion for the but did not see there was something else to be freed? and american history we are full of paradoxes like that that twist and turn and it is our job to understand and and not the knots as much as we can. to this day. you got to go up there. >> those who were enslaved may have been struggling with economics and it was for -- many think the worth of the slave was determined that the auction, the slave for $30. that is how they were categorized but really, the true wealth i guess, the true worth of a slave was not necessarily the amount they were bought for but the return of their investment. >> it was the labor they produced. that all those always struck me as extraordinary that the 12.5 million people over 360 years of slavery in the new world were employed, they labored to produce luxury goods, the cheapest labor to produce luxury goods, whether it was tobacco or cotton or indigo or excellent rice. i don't think i let you get to

how can it be that someone like mary dyer, who was served by had at and the hannah and the 13 li whot the gee have died to make a religion for the but did not see there was something else to be freed? and american history we are full of paradoxes like that that twist and turn and it is our job to understand and and not the knots as much as we can. to this day. you got to go up there. >> those who were enslaved may have been struggling with economics and it was for -- many think the worth of the slave was determined that the auction, the slave for $30. that is how they were categorized but really, the true wealth i guess, the true worth of a slave was not necessarily the amount they were bought for but the return of their investment. >> it was the labor they produced. that all those always struck me as extraordinary that the 12.5 million people over 360 years of slavery in the new world were employed, they labored to produce luxury goods, the cheapest labor to produce luxury goods, whether it was tobacco or cotton or indigo or excellent rice. i don't think i let you get to your questi