Welcome to the Naud Old Better Show. I'm your host Paul Vogel-Zing and this is episode

number 188, part two of our two-part series.

Our guests over these episodes is writer, historian, filmmaker, and genealogist Regina Mason.

This again is a wonderful conversation, So thanks so much for joining us.

Hi everybody Paul Volk International Speaker, author, executive producer, and storyteller who believes in the extraordinary will of the human spirit.

Regina Mason has spent 15 years researching the life and times of her great great grandfather,

pioneering fugitive slave autobiography, William Grimes.

She has spent nearly a lifetime turning a negative into a positive that would one day culminate with

a new edition of her ancestor's book, The Life of William Grimes, the runaway slave.

If those who read my history think I have not led a life of trial, I have failed to give a

correct representation. I hope some will buy my books from charity,

but I am no baker. I am now entirely destitute of property. Where and how I shall live?

I don't know. Where and how I shall die I don't know but I hope I may be prepared. If it were not

for the stripes on my back which were made while I was a slave I would in my will leave my

skin as a legacy to the government desiring that it might be taken off and made into

parchment and then bind the Constitution of

glorious, happy, and free America.

Let the skin of an American slave bind the Charter of American Liberty.

William Grimes.

That of course is our guest today, Regina Mason, reading from her great, great grandfather's book, The Life of William Grimes, The Runaway Slave.

Regina Mason currently serves as executive producer of the film documentary Gina's journey

The Search for William Grimes and is joining us today via Skype from Oakland, California.

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