We speak with Roger Ekirch about his new book, American Sanctuary,the book focuses on a mutiny that has been largely forgotten, but that had major implications for American politics, the Presidential election of 1800, and sanctuary of fugatives in the United States, is well written, and opens a window into a poorly understood era of American history. The book reads well and explains a part of the complex relationship between the United States and the British Empire in the first 50 years after the Declaration of Independence