Ann Wagner Speech – US Slavery: Foundation of America’s Development – May 31, 2021

US Slavery: Foundation of America’s Development Speaker: Ann Wagner

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Ann Wagner Short Bio

Degrees:  BA in French/German Literature, BS in Mechanical Engineering, MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

Retired as a facility engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Taught English in Vietnam for 1 ½ years. Teaching community and college ESL.

Description

Whereas one view of US slavery has been that of a primitive economic system that was isolated to the southern states, Edward E. Baptist in his 2014 book “The Half Has Never Been Told” portrays it as a significant part of the booming 19^th century capitalist economy, and a major driver of national industrial development and financial integration. Today, 150 years after the Civil War, many of the effects of slavery can still be seen

Partial Reference List related to US Slavery

1. Baptist, E.E. (2014). The Half has never been told: Slavery and the making of American capitalism. Basic Books, NY

2. Beckert, S., & Rockman, R . (eds). Slavery’s capitalism: A new history of American Economic Development. University of Pennsylvania

3. Dattel, E.R. (ND). Cotton in a global economy: Mississippi (1800-1860) http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/161/cotton-in-a-global-economy-mississippi-1800-1860

4. Einhorn, R. (2008). Slavery. Enterprise & Society 9(3) 491-506 https://dx.doi.org/khn043

5. Fernandez-Villaverde, J. (2021). The regional economies of colonial America https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/PEEA_4_Regional_Economies_Colonial_America.pdf

6. Foner, P. (1968). Business & slavery: the New York merchants & the irrepressible conflict https://archive.org/details/businessslaveryn00fone

7. MacKay, K.L. (ND). Statistics on Slavery https://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/statistics_on_slavery.htm

8. Morgan, K. (2007). Slavery and the British empire: from Africa to America. Oxford, NY

Ann Wagner’s NASA scientific activities and publications

• “Burning Landfill Gas at NASA’s Central Power Plant,” District Energy Campus Conference, 2004

• “Adapting Equipment to Burn LFG,” U.S. EPA’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program Annual Conference, 2003

• Master plan: Restoration of domestic water distribution system (2010)

• Master plan: Restoration of steam distribution system (2000)

• Master plan: Restoration of chilled water distribution system (1995)

Relevant experience related to US history

• Forty years of reading extensively about world and U.S. history, including the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movements, and black writers and historians

• Decades of participation in and organizing of protests for black rights and other issues, for example

  • The 1982 DC rally which prevented the KKK from marching down Pennsylvania Avenue

  • The campaign to free political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1985 – ongoing