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1811, the planters gathered. they cut open a king cake. is january 6, 12th night or epiphany. after cutting opening the king cake they serve coffee and the dancing began. english dances and french danced and gambled at table spread out. you never saw anything more brilliant wrote a french colonial official. at 3:00 in the morning slaves would bring in gumbo and turtle, serve huge tables of 70 people each. after the initial party, many of the planters would go on to mixed-race bolts and other such celebrations. when william claiborne, the american governor took over control of the cit...

i didn't know anything about this or about my grandfather's ideas, so that just sort of lodged in my head. then i read a book by margaret macmillan called paris 1919, which is about the framing of the treaty of versailles in which is quite a brilliant book and which brilliantly succeeds at teaching, but also at reaching an audience not composed of family members and graduate students, and i thought i would like to do something like that some day. and trying to think about what i could write with my expertise as a british historian i came up with "the balfour declaration" which coinci...