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That is really great. I love your emphasis on the challenge and creativity involved. And i guess it underscores a key point especially when were trying to write about enslaved women who are really known to us almost primarily either relationship to someone who enslaved them and you think about the incredible achievement of erika dunbar writing that biography of judge and letting her be an individual in her own right and letting her have her own life when you only have to point of access to her individual voice. Interviews she gave in the mid19th century describing what happened when she ran aw...

Size, chris. The big problem is going to be that storm surge. You know how most people die. In storms. Its water. Its drowning. Its really not the wind so much. Although thats an issue when it comes to projectiles and such. But its really that water, and you cant run it. And if you get into a place where you cant get above it or you cant stabilize, youre in deep, deep trouble, chris. The bands going in and out. Were really on the edge here. You may be closer to it. I think anderson is probably going to get it before each of us. What have you been saying . I know ive been out. I havent seen a l...

The democrats did it, democrats are the cause for the storm, maybe they whipped up the winds and all the rain that caused the storm. i just don't understand it. and i think you're absolutely right to call a lie a lie. >> you know, don, ethel freeman was a woman who was brought to the convention center in new orleans in the days after the storm. ethel freeman was 91 years old, if my memory serves me correctly. she was in a wheelchair. she was brought by her son, who i believe was herbert freeman jr., if i remember his name correctly. but ethel freeman was brought there by her son because they w...

>> herbert freeman taking care of his 91-year-old mother, ethel, infirm, and legally blind and lived through many other storms. when the floodwaters threatened their home, herbert decided it was time to leave. >> i said i am going to the super dome. the super dome is crowded. don't go there, go to the convention center. bring your mama to the convention center. that's what i did. i want to the convention center. >> he says he was told buses in the convention center were taking people out of new orleans. he wheeled her all the way there through floodwaters thinking they would be safe. at the co...

Finally came. herbert evacuated leaving his mother's body behind. he wrote his name and phone number on a paper and slid it into ethel's pocket. hoping someone would find it. it would be two whole months before anybody could tell herbert freeman where his mother's body had been taken. ethel freeman's death became a symbol of the government's failure to help those who needed it most. >> i remember seeing that image and it was heartbreaking. it only reminded us that we couldn't work off of a calendar, weed into to work off a clock. we need to move fast. because more people would die if we didn't...