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The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s. It Just Surfaced
History.com ^ | 3 May 2018 | BECKY LITTLE

Posted on 05/11/2018 9:18:13 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Roughly 60 years after the abolition of slavery, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made an incredible connection: She located the last surviving captive of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States. ... In fact, they are only now being released to the public in a book called Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” that comes out on May 8, 2018... he was only 19 years old when members of the neighboring Dahomian tribe captured him and took him to the coast. There, he and about 120 others were sold into slavery and crammed onto the Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach the continental United States.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 1860; africatown; americanhistory; anthropologist; barracoon; benin; bookreview; clotilda; dahomey; godsgravesglyphs; kingdomofdahomey; plantation; slavery; zoranealehurston
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The subject died in 1935, born ~1840.
1 posted on 05/11/2018 9:18:14 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT
he was only 19 years old when members of the neighboring Dahomian tribe captured him and took him to the coast. There, he and about 120 others were sold into slavery

White people's fault!

2 posted on 05/11/2018 9:20:56 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I find this mentions an interesting detail that he was captured by another tribe before being sold off to come to the US, funny I thought some white guy captured him and brought him here.


3 posted on 05/11/2018 9:22:10 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: DUMBGRUNT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cudjoe_Lewis


4 posted on 05/11/2018 9:24:19 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Interesting. Thanks for posting.


5 posted on 05/11/2018 9:25:59 PM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC - when only shallow (more-money-than-brains) bimbos spewing breathless gossip will do...)
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To: DUMBGRUNT; blam

Africatown ping.


6 posted on 05/11/2018 9:26:36 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Here we go again. The ever revolving museum of forced black slavery and presumed white guilt.


7 posted on 05/11/2018 9:34:22 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Just ordered this book. This is the history I love to read.


8 posted on 05/11/2018 9:48:05 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: the_individual2014

The always omitted fact.


9 posted on 05/11/2018 9:48:56 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

If anyone really cared about slavery, they’d complain about it happening in Africa now, not about it happening here more than 150 years ago.


10 posted on 05/11/2018 9:52:52 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Funny that blacks are not upset at the other blacks that beat their tribes and sold them into slavery.


11 posted on 05/11/2018 9:53:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Interesting read - sad history that man and his fellows had.


12 posted on 05/11/2018 9:54:32 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Teacher317

“White people’s fault!”

He doesn’t say that.

Read the excerpt below.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-excerpt.html

The author and interviewer of this publication is Zora Neale Hurston who was a great American anthropologist and writer.


13 posted on 05/11/2018 9:54:50 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Hurston was a great Anerican.

She came up against political correctness back then. The leftist victocrats if the day hated her and apparently stopped this from being published.

“When Hurston tried to get Barracoon published in 1931, she couldn’t find a taker. There was concern among “black intellectuals and political leaders” that the book laid uncomfortably bare Africans’ involvement in the slave trade, according to novelist Alice Walker’s foreword to the book, which is finally being published in May. Walker is responsible for reintroducing the world to a forgotten Zora Neale Hurston, who’d died penniless and alone in 1960, in a 1975 Ms. magazine essay. As Walker writes, “Who would want to know, via a blow-by-blow account, how African chiefs deliberately set out to capture Africans from neighboring tribes, to provoke wars of conquest in order to capture for the slave trade. This is, make no mistake, a harrowing read.””

http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-excerpt.html


14 posted on 05/11/2018 9:58:50 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Teacher317

Africans selling Africans. I bet the universities immediately demand the history books be rewritten to show that!!!!! Right?


15 posted on 05/11/2018 10:06:19 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Teacher317

I was just going to post that relevant line...


16 posted on 05/11/2018 10:13:21 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


17 posted on 05/11/2018 10:18:15 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: ifinnegan

Thank you for that link. What a very interesting story


18 posted on 05/11/2018 10:54:59 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Secret Agent Man

The only reason the victorious tribe did not kill them is they could get money and accomplish the same thing. Those they defeated would never be seen again. So maybe slavery saved tens of thousands of lives.


19 posted on 05/11/2018 11:14:24 PM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Plagiarism is likely another reason this was never published. I’m skeptical; the whole thing could be a forgery like “Hitler’s diary”. From the link: “According to her biographer Robert E. Hemenway, this piece largely plagiarized Emma Roche’s work,[29] although Hurston added information about daily life in Lewis’ home village of Banté.”


20 posted on 05/11/2018 11:23:17 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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