many, many others. >> we have been talking with georgetown professor maurice jackson, the author of this book, let this was be heard. also an assistant professor of history here at the university. professor jackson, thanks for your time. >> thank you very much. >> book tv has over 150,000 twitter followers. follow book tv on twitter to get publishing news, scheduling of states, author of affirmation, and talk directly with authors during our live programming. twitter got com / book tv. >> in the last 2000 years we have seen all kinds of formulations where power is concentrated in the hands of the commercial interest. so much so that they have led to wars, they have led to sectarian differences. they have led to a lot of consequential. in our history there were some of the founding fathers who wanted to put the corporation in the constitution by way of subordinating it to human beings, but that provision never got through. you see, at that time there remembered in new above the enormous power the east india company was ruled india with an absolute i hand for many years, the devastating hu

. >> now joining us on booktv is professor maurice jackson at georgetown university. he is the author of this book, let this voice be heard, father of atlantic abolitionism. professor jackson who is anthony ben bennett say? >> thank you for having me. he was born in france in 1713. because of religious and toleration the edict giving non-catholics religious freedom. is revoked in 1865 and people are forced to leave, he e. third lieber conferred so his family chose to leave. his family was a very prominent family in the north of france. his father left france to go to the border to try to pass through holland and the guard tried to stop them. and so, his father said in his hand i have a pouch of money in this hand i have a pistol, you take your choice in the card did what i would do, took the cash in the family fled to france that way. he went to england and remarkably studying at the same school learning english and the greek voltaire was far from a quaker or religious tolerant. he was a man of great abundance of material goods and things like that but he became fasci