Communities was corn as well as vegetables like squash and peas. Growing rice requires a kind of hydraulic system with canals and guides and gates and its probably not something maroons would have been in a position to construct. They were small plots. That was one of the things also. They were rather small so again when you grow rice it has to be even more extended. The final question. I havent read your work but im looking forward to it. I have a question. In relationship to the maroons looking at louisiana want to focus on that before the Louisiana Purchase and being in haiti there was a lot of transfer between slaves from haiti and louisiana to this through the French Connection and also being that in 1793 the first refugee crisis in america when the french planters came to louisiana and their words a lot of interconnections and in haiti there is a Large Population of maroons. So being there would you think that is also something that could have led to the spread of the marans . Im
But this kind of that is one of the things that is also very interesting. The fact that the maroons, one thing that many of them dead was to. We see maroons trading for example the that they gather. Some made baskets and they. That to free blacks as well as white people. One of the things that they. , that they. For word guns and ammunition. We are going to turn soon to open the floor to questions from the audience but i wanted to allow sylviane to do a little reading for the book so what he do that . One of the things that i think needs to be mentioned is is you know a maroon was not for everyone. It was difficult. It was a hard life. People had have to be very creative and selfconfident. They had to have extraordinary qualities to be able to survive in the wild and in some lived very well and some of them became folk heroes. You read the interviews and you see people who say they didnt have to work. They 1800better than we did. There were a lot of successes that they had. There are w
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A wife and a daughter. The thing that i always think about with abigail is the relationship, the partnership. Without abigail, there is no john. Without john, there is no abigail. John is important to history. Yes. With the support she provided to him in europe, in the presidency, in the vice presidency, she was so trustworthy that she could to take care of things. So he could go off and be this great public person, which was exactly what she wanted. To our guests, our thanks for helping us understand more about the life and legacy of americas second first lady Abigail Adams. Thank you for your time. Thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] wednesday night, we continue our encore of the first season ladies, with dolly madison. , september 9, a look at the life of Edith Roosevelt. Our website has a special section on the first ladies, including welcome to the white house, which chronicles life in the exec