-- The 1619 Project: A New Origin StoryIn late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last fo…
-- The 1619 Project: A New Origin StoryIn late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last fo…
-- The 1619 Project: A New Origin StoryIn late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last fo…
--?New York Times.
-- Their Eyes Were Watching God, In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile,?to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person aliv…