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The author grew up in Ghana and had certain impressions of what happened during the slave era. And then he read Barracoon.
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Zora Neale Hurston, one of the best known writers of the Harlem Renaissance — and the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God — has a new book. Well,…
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Do Florida politicians really want to create a "sanctuary state," as the speaker of the state House claims? And did slaves really help build the "old"...
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A new report says too many students don't know the basics of American slavery and too many teachers feel ill-served by bad textbooks and timid state standards.
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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.
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Author Ta Nehisi Coates didn't hold back on his stinging criticisms of President Donald Trump during a recent visit to Miami. Coates, a writer for the…
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More than fifty years after her death, a new work by Zora Neale Hurston will hit the presses. Barracoon is her account of the last known survivor of...
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Monroe County announced this week plans to reconfigure a dog park in Key West believed to be above the graves of Africans who were rescued from the slave…
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By using decades worth of archaeological finds, the first president's meticulous record keeping, and their descendants, curators have crafted a new exhibit that focuses on Mount Vernon's slaves.
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Signs about human trafficking are going up in places like airports and strips clubs in the new year. The public awareness campaign is now required by…
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For years, Marie AlinaCajuste did not know her real name. The family she worked for in Haiti called her Ti Bebe, or Little Baby.She shared her experience…
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I bought Francisco Lima his first taste of freedom in decades.A cheeseburger.It was 2004, and Brazil was starting to confront one of its most distressing…