Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ and Africatown’s Sister Settlement
More than ninety years after Zora Neale Hurston first met Cudjo Lewis, her manuscript Barracoon has finally been published. Hurston encountered
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Author: Sharla M. Fett
James Pennington’s Fight for African Slave Trade Refugees
In the hot summer of 1860, Americans confronted an urgent refugee crisis. Over 1,400 young and destitute Africans, seized by
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