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Franklin roosevelt appoints him in the summer of 1941 aswhat eventually becomes the office of strategic services. Kind of a strange choice because donovan was a staunch republican, had run for governor of new york on an antiroosevelt, antinew deal platform. But he was also a man of irrepressible spirit, boundless optimism, full of ideas and, in a sense, hehe reflected the qualities of Franklin Roosevelt so he was named the head of our first spy service. Cspan as you know, they called him wild bill donovan. Tell us a wild story. Guest well, oneone of theone of the conclusions i reached about do...

Small groups, families, large communities especially in the small swamp all over the south. In sheer numbers you know what to me is unique in that place in the resistance story is that they were unique in many ways. And even less underground. Also they added a special kind of a freedom. They raised their food and nobody else was. When they created a mentality to life in the white hegemony. When somebody would run away to the south which was two cities or when people would run away to the north to canada or for free blacks they all lived under the control segregated and discriminated against an...

Behalf of the center and the new york office i would like to welcome you all here for what i think is a momentous and landmark event for us, an evening honoring the launch of david brion daviss new book. I have a couple of acknowledgments and a brief introduction and then we will start the program an alternate over to the speaker. I would like to begin first of all but sending my thanks to my colleague and friend dr. Bragman who is the person who arranged or this event that brought dr. Davis in the center together i would also like to thank michelle from the publishers of the book. She is the ...

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 lo...

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 ever...