NPR

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Both terrifying and wonderful, Barracoon is Zora Neale Hurston's long-unpublished account of her conversations with Cudjo Lewis, who was brought to America on the last trans-Atlantic slave ship.

The Atlantic

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In Barracoon, Zora Neale Hurston challenges the American public’s narrow view of the African continent, the transatlantic slave trade, and the diasporic cultures that came as a result of it.

The Christian Science Monitor

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Hurston’s study of Lewis was conducted during her years as a Barnard College anthropology student under Dr. Franz Boas.

AFAR

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“I CAN TAKE YOU TO YOUR PEOPLE.” The phrase was uttered by the elder who had taken my hand shortly after I arrived in a small Ghanaian village in 1997. And though the words were simple, they pointed to a diffcult fact: Black people displaced from the

The Paris Review

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Zora Neale Hurston’s previously unpublished anthropological text Barracoon will be released on May 8, 2018.  Zora Neale Hurston, Kossula: Last of the Takoi Slaves, stills from a black-and-white film in 16mm, 5 minutes. © The Margaret Mead Collection.

BBC History Magazine

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ON THE HistoryExtra PODCAST Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Story of Slavery by Alex Renton Canongate, 400 pages, £16.99 Journalist Alex Renton’s Blood Legacy is a timely interven-tion into recent debates about Britain’s history as a slavery

History Revealed

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bit.ly/BritainSlaveTradePod To what extent was the British Empire powered by slaves? In this episode, broadcast in June 2020, historian Christer Petley explores the role of enslaved people in Britain’s success in the 18th and 19th centuries, and con

ARCHAEOLOGY

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An early nineteenth-century clay pipestem, one of many unearthed in the slave quarters at the former Belvoir tobacco plantation on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, has allowed archaeologists to rescue a lost history. DNA yielded by the seemingly unremarkab

NPR

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The book is based on conversations Hurston had with Cudjo Lewis, who was brought to this country on the last trans-Atlantic slave ship. It's a unique document of Lewis' life before and after slavery.

NPR

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There's still some uncertainty but Ben Raines says based on research, local lore and physical evidence, this might be the ship that illegally carried more than 100 Africans into slavery.

NPR

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Redoshi, given the slave name Sally Smith, was kidnapped at the age of 12 from Benin, a country in West Africa, and sold into slavery.

SFX

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RELEASED 25 JUNE 560 pages | Paperback/ebook Author HG Parry Publisher Orbit Author HG Parry Publisher Orbit Pitt The Younger, magicuser. Thinking Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter? No, this is no pulpy thrill-ride. It tells of the experiences of a han

The Christian Science Monitor

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Historian Joshua Rothman uses the lives of three prosperous slave traders to explode myths about pre-Civil War American society.

Who Do You Think You Are?

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An index to mental-hospital registers held by Surrey History Centre, listing patients’ names, ages and dates of admission. Details of local militiamen and naval militia from records at Cornwall Record Office. An index to records, with some details of

Fairlady

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DONALD TRUMP is humanity’s last hope to dismantle the ‘deep state’ forces seeking to enslave humanity. South Africa’s gold was once mined by an ancient race of aliens called the Anunnaki, which created humans as a slave race for mining purposes. The

History Revealed

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The Normans brought a new type of building to Britain: castles. Before 1066, there were only a smattering of castles in the country, but by William’s death in 1087, around 500 had been constructed in England and Wales. Pre-1066, between ten and 30 pe

The Christian Science Monitor

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Some Americans are uncomfortable with a word that, despite its long history, conjures images of plantation slavery. Others object to the objections.

The Christian Science Monitor

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It's a learned, yet folksy, way to describe someone as unruly or troublesome. Its roots are innocuous, but it was also used to describe slaves.

Chicago Tribune

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For Langston Hughes, his falling out with Zora Neale Hurston marked the "end of the Harlem Renaissance." Henry Louis Gates Jr. deemed it "the most notorious literary quarrel in African American cultural history." Alice Walker, who deemed the pair "li

ARCHAEOLOGY

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Even under excruciating circumstances, members of oppressed communities may seek wellness through resistance and survival. The Danish government abolished the slave trade as of 1803. From then until 1848, when enslaved people in the Danish West Indie

Total Film

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DIRECTOR STEPHEN WILLIAMS STARRING KELVIN HARRISON JR., SAMARA WEAVING ETA 2023 TBC A musical prodigy stuns 18th-century European high society with his compositional flair. Sound familiar? Well, despite Mozart featuring as a character, Chevalier is n

TIME

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For tourists from thousands of miles away or for school-kids right in Washington, D.C., the first stop for anyone seeking a window into American democracy is usually the National Mall. For more than 200 years, however, the story it tells has been inc

Post South Africa

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A NUMBER of events, exhibitions and books during this difficult time of the Covid-19 pandemic have marked the 160th anniversary of our forefathers to this country. May I add foremothers and thus give a separate identity to our first womenfolk? The in

Post South Africa

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WE HAVE made it. It has been a long, hazardous journey and we have reached another milestone. And here we are, firmly planted in the South African soil, thriving for 160 years now. Our intrepid forefathers, lured by the story of gold growing on chill

Who Do You Think You Are?

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w baringarchive.org.uk Barings Bank was founded in the 18th century and has an archive in the City of London. w nationalarchives.gov.uk TNA in Kew has Treasury and Colonial Office letters about the American War of Independence and the West Indian co

Who Do You Think You Are?

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bit.ly/victorys-children Free As the nation celebrated the 75th anniversary of VE Day in May, this poignant 45-minute video from 2015 sheds light on the legacy of the day. The documentary follows filmmaker Derek Smith’s efforts to track down and

Who Do You Think You Are?

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How did you come to write the book? I’m an investigative journalist, and I’ve always been interested in issues around empire and history. My grandfather was a quite well-known Scottish historian called Sir James Fergusson. He was the keeper of the r

BBC History Magazine

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“2022 marks the BBC’s centenary – and throughout the year, I will be highlighting key episodes in the corporation’s history to show its profound impact on our lives.” David reveals the roots of the BBC in the first instalment of his new series on pag

Who Do You Think You Are?

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What inspired you to write the book? When I was writing my previous book Legacy, about my mother’s family who ran the catering empire J Lyons, I learnt that before that they owned a tobacco company called Salmon & Gluckstein. The tobacco almost cert

Global Voices

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"I wonder how many children "whiten" themselves socially without even realizing it. They are...ignorant of their ancestors and of the people who fought so history wouldn't repeat itself."