#2754: Revolution and Robeson

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From: P D Bellegarde-Smith <pbs@csd.uwm.edu>

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> From:michael.o.leslie@gm.com
> "Boukman...secret meeting...satanic ceremony...serve the devil."
> Whoa!!! ! I'm currently reading Carolyn Fick's "The Making of Haiti" and
 
 
Felix Moriseau-Leroy spoke of conversations he had with Paul Robeson who
had been approached by Hollywood to play a role in a film on the Haitian
Revolution and independence wars, with excellent pay. The catch? Hollywood
would have to change the outcome of that struggle "not to irritate white
people." I miss Morisseau-Leroy.