>>host: jenny martinez reviews as model for later treaties? >> what is interesting they were remembered for a while. in the early 1940's during world war ii there was a permanent court which is the court of the league of nations end up predecessor which exist under the u.n. today. that was commissioned to write a report about what should be done with the war criminals after world war ii ended and he said maybe we should become the nuremberg trials and he mentions the slave trade tribunal. there were a variety of groups active in the thirties and proposing international forums was one of the historical band-aids. but the focus was on the crimes that were in peach of aggressive warfare that the not too regime had been engaged now we think it is all of of human rights violations in the war crimes but actually it was that time that was the focus and maybe one of the reasons for the immediate aftermath they started to fade data of memory as replaced by a nuremberg can then they really were forgotten of historians of the those have been a part of th

. >> stanford university law professor jenny martinez talks about efforts in the late 18th century to bend the international slave trade, which argues laid the foundations for the modern international human rights movement. booktv sat down with professor martinez at stanford university in california. this is about 20 minutes. >> host: and booktv from stanford university continues. and now we're joined by law professor jenny martinez whose book, "the slave trade and the origins of international rights law" is our next topic. or faster martinez, when did the u.s. slave trade start and how did it start? >> guest: the u.s. was involved in the slave trade from the moment that we sort of began as a colony of britain, and, indeed, one of the interesting things about u.s. history is that in the constitutional convention there was a compromise between the states that had slaves and the states that didn't. and the u.s. constitution said that the federal congress couldn't take any action against the slave trade and till 1808. the u.s. at the first moment it could in 1807, president johnson sent

>>host: booktv from sid third university continues know we're joined by jenny martinez whose book "the slave trade and the origins of international human rights law" is our next topic. professor, when did the u.s. slave trade star in how did this start? >> u.s. was involved in the slave trade from the moment that we began as a colony of britain's and one of the interesting things of u.s. history is in the constitutional convention there was a compromise for the states that had slaves

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