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Transcription: [[background noises throughout conversation]]
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
You are doing fine because you are identifying the very specific group in the Black community;
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
There were entrepreneurs, business people.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Right.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
And part of our research and our project deals with some of the entrepreneurial class which
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
was responsible for some of the early movie business--
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Alright. Well the Entre--
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
-- funding theaters and stuff like that. And [[inaudible]].
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Well the Entrepreneurial Amistad Research Center in New Orleans; have you been there for records?
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Ah, no, not yet.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
They have all my family papers dating for generations.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
And ah, and a lot about business. It's at Tulane University.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
You know the Amistad--

[[Cross Talk]]
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
At Tulane?

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Um hmn.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
They finally got to Tulane. They've been all over [[inaudible]].
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
You know how Amistad got started, right?
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
I don't know.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Well, this is what [[?]] was trying to do his doctoral dissertation
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
On the Amistad Resolt-- Revolt.

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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mmm-- The Slave Rebellion.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Hmn?

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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
The Slave Rebellion, you're talking about?
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Amistad.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
You're talking about the Slave Rebellion.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Yeah! Yeah, Yeah. that's right. Yes.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Did you hear this?
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Yeah, sure, I know.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
And he found that most of the records
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
were at Fisk University, which they--
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
It wasn't started,-- sponsored [[??]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
It's a religious group, out of [[??]]. Fisk is in Nashville, Tennessee.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
And, they told [[??]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
[[inaudible]] [[Society??]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
So, he went there to do his doctoral dissertation
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
His, he's white. He still lives back there.
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Silence
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
And, he found that the people who were doing the research
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
The-- the folks, the life that was doing research,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
[Ants]]-- [[Rats?]]
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[[Laughter]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
All of that. All of these boxes of valuable [[inaudible]].
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
And a mmm, nobody had preserved it in any way, so they showed it--
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Transcription Notes:
TIMESTAMPS GO UNDER THE DIALOGUE, THEN A SPACE, THEN THE SPEAKER of the next segment. This is how it is shown in the INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO. PLEASE CHECK FOR UNKNOWN WORDS. THANKS. Pearl BOWSER is doing the project - making the interviews. She is interviewing Clair Collins Harvey, who is introduced on the first tape. Louise Spence does say a few things on this transcription.