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If You Read One Book This Juneteenth, Make it Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon”
Zora Neale Hurston's book is the perfect reminder of why we celebrate.
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Questlove, Spike Lee, Tyler Perry and More Set for Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival
'It is our mission to amplify these storytellers in a meaningful and safeguarded way,' said MVAAFF founders in a statement.
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Clotilda Slave Ship Descendants Documentary Acquired by Netflix
Presented by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground, the Sundance-winning documentary’s rights were quickly picked up by Netflix.
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Wreckage of the Last US Slave Ship Intact on the Alabama Coast
The "Clotilda" was found on an Alabama coast and much of it remains whole
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Last Known U.S. Slave Ship, the Clotilda, Said to Have Been Discovered in Alabama
Researchers at the Alabama Historical Commission recently announced that they’ve located the remains of the last known ship known to bring enslaved Africans to what we now call the United States. As National Geographic notes, slave importing was officially banned in 1808, though an illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade continued for many years. In 1860, some…
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A Reporter May Have Found the Last American Slave Ship
In 1860, 52 years after the importation of human chattel was outlawed in the United States, the Clotilda, a two-masted schooner, sneaked into Mobile Bay near Mobile, Ala., returning from a secret mission in Benin, Africa. Captained by William Foster, the Clotilda unloaded its precious cargo: 110 kidnapped human beings. When federal authorities discovered that…
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New Zora Neale Hurston Book Will Tell Story of the Last Survivor of the US Slave Trade
Eighty-one years after Their Eyes Were Watching God debuted, a new work by Zora Neale Hurston will appear on bookshelves. In 2018, publisher HarperCollins will release Hurston’s account of the last-known survivor of the American holocaust known as the U.S. slave trade. In 1931, Hurston spent three months in Alabama interviewing Cudjo Lewis, who came…