Don Wildman

Perspective.

Yeah.

Understanding their wider perspective of this whole subject matter.

enslaved individuals are the largest asset in the United States by the 1800s.

That's insane.

That's amazing.

And disregarded by most people who want to move on from the subject to understand how important it really was.

The groundwork had been set for a future conflict that would finally end slavery.

But until then, the violence and trauma would continue.

It is a legacy we live with today.

And one would think that a nation would fight a war over this and then dispose of the system altogether.

But of course, that didn't happen so easily.

And we end up in reconstruction and all that's afterwards.

It's an enormous subject.

I hope this has been a helpful conversation for the audience to understand how complex this subject matter is.

And you have to start at the beginning.

And I thank you, Justine, for doing this with us and giving us that kind of foundation.

I envy those students of yours who sit in that classroom listening to you.

Professor Justine Hill Edwards teaches and works at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

She has authored several works, but be sure to order her most recent, the award-winning Savings and Trust, The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank.