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.
(Excerpt) Read more at history.com ...
White people's fault!
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.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Africatown ping.
Here we go again. The ever revolving museum of forced black slavery and presumed white guilt.
Just ordered this book. This is the history I love to read.
The always omitted fact.
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.
Funny that blacks are not upset at the other blacks that beat their tribes and sold them into slavery.
Interesting read - sad history that man and his fellows had.
“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.
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
Africans selling Africans. I bet the universities immediately demand the history books be rewritten to show that!!!!! Right?
I was just going to post that relevant line...
*ping*
Thank you for that link. What a very interesting story
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.
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.”
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