Actually wondering these unprecedented times. And as always our Event Schedule his on the website compiles book sales from home. If you have a question at any time during the talk clicked on the q a button. Your purchase those are contributions to ensure the future of landmark independent bookseller. We appreciate your support now and always. Technical issues may arise we thank you for your understanding. And reintroduce tonight speakers with a professor of history at Johns Hopkins university co. President of future historians. And from the society of legal history and National Humanities center. And then with the Library Museum and then National Portrait gallery can american in history and also has been published among many others. And with the africanamerican in public culture and the multi awardwinning with a history of race and for the New York Times magazine in 2021 of the pulitzer in the book publisher they named vanguard and then as the letter to describe vanguard as the history
I will relax because i got news or months old but is false. We begin on the Crimean Peninsula where russian flags flying high and celebrations the seating be in full swing with thousands taking to the streets of soft the regions one off canadian voters overwhelmingly get that back into motion to break with ukraine. Join russia. Russian media sources of st more than ninety percent of voters favored becoming a pot of russia in the timeout was in excess of fifty percent of the west is maintained from the outset that about. That was in violation of international lol. In washington paris and several the governments of warm ups guy. They will not accept the outcome of the faith of the russian president but an increase in rejects those accusations saying that the referendum respect of the will of the crimean people. Well back in the ukrainian capital she asked the Prime Minister also gets and how cool that takes us on this performance. For the dire consequences for the substitutes. Lets get r
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 and there were things that they were not allowed to do. If only the maroons were and they created that alternative to life and the slavery south and in the free north. And what i conceive of that is also the fact that you know these ideals of voluntary separation, this is something that exists within the Africanamerican Community and you find that actually in many different forms whether its cultura
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 gilda lerman institute for the help of operation in arranging this evening. I also would like to very much welcome and recognize alan and francis members of the board of trustees who have taken their time to come here this evening as well. Thank you for that. A few brief words of introduction. One of the reasons i was so glad and jumped jump at this opportunity was because this work and the work o
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