Book tv continues with so the and desk. She represents a history of people who escaped slavery and traded self sufficient communities in desert regions of the south. This is about 50 minutes. [applause] thank you very much for the introduction. I am delighted to be here to play the role of questionnaire. The marvelous new book slaverys exiles. At the end we will have zero little time for questions from the audience. Theyre is a microphone over there for the purpose. Keep in mind as we finish our conversation. Just to remind you what was said, you can purchase are but outside as it is well worth doing. I think to begin Sylviane Diouf wanted to read a passage from the book. We would like to start that way. Actually, at the end. At the end. Okay. So we will blend right then. Actually, let me just ask uses the term ruin is maybe not totally widely known what exactly is marin . Yes, and around, actually the term comes. At the beginning it was somewhat used. By a extension it was used for ru
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Africa. He talked at the new public library. [ applause ] thank y thank you. This is a wonderful institution and gave me an event to look at this great book. It is a great book. It was a thrill to be asked to do this with greg tonight. He comes at it as a historian and i am a reader of his book and a leader of melville and that is wellfitting we should be meeting into the new york library to talk about the greatest new yorker that ever lived. I dont think anybody stands in his wake. And to talk about the much larger story that he was expanding upon in it. And greg asked me to do the honors of talking for a minute at the outset about playing out the story which i am sure many of you are familiar with and many of you may not have read as recently. I thought i would do that. And i remember seeing a document once about pablo who played bock every day and said i also do that. So it is benedicts on the house. This is the story of a man who fetches up on the ceiling of a long expedition. They
In relationship to the maroons, being that looking at louisiana i just want to focus on that. Being that louisiana before the Louisiana Purchase it was practically a french entity, and being that also france and haiti, a lot of, you know, transfer between slaves from haiti and louisiana through the french connection. And also being that in 1793 which led to the first refugee crisis this america when a in america when the last remnant of the french planters fled and came to louisiana and being that also like we said that there are a lot of interconnection between the two, and we know in haiti that theres a Large Population of maroons. So being there would you think that also is something that could have led to the spread of the maroons . Im not sure at all because ma a ons in maroons in louisiana or anywhere else didnt need any encouragement or anything from anybody, you know . [laughter] so i dont think that, you know, haiti would have had an influence on that particular phenomenon. Th