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Three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance

The Conversation 24 Mar 2025
The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts (2021), which I would also strongly recommend ... The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History ... After being kidnapped by the Royal African Company to labour on a slaving ship, he decides to resist.
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Mississippi River cruise - an immersion in deep South creole, jazz and Delta blues

NewstalkZB 20 Mar 2025
We board our Viking river cruise ship at the Port of New Orleans ... This universally loved music genre originated on the slave ships and in the plantation fields, and was later crafted in the “coloured” blues bars of Beale St in Memphis.
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Kittery Historical \u0026 Naval Society History Talks lecture on 'The General and the Prince'

Seacoast Online 20 Mar 2025
But Whipple was also the co-owner of a ship which on at least one occasion carried slaves, and he in fact enslaved a young African American named Prince, who in his own right figures prominently in the history of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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Gerald Chukwuma Tells Igbo Story through ‘Water Carried Us Here, Water Will Carry Us Away’

This Day 15 Mar 2025
It pays homage to ‘The Igbo Landing’, the mass suicide in 1803 by captive Igbo people who took control of the slave ship they were on, and refused to submit to slavery in Georgia, United States; ...
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It’s an epic story never to forget: The downtrodden, exploited Irish were left to die, ...

Inlander 13 Mar 2025
... the emancipated African slaves ... Herman Melville was appalled by steerage on a "good" ship — "an open cesspool They were packed like slaves on a slave ship." These were the long cónra (coffin ships).
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Cal Thomas: Reparations program seems ripe for abuse

Post Bulletin 12 Mar 2025
When the white crew took an unsanctioned shore leave in Charleston in the early morning hours of May 13, Smalls and several other slaves hijacked the ship, piloted it past Fort Sumter and surrendered it to a Union blockading squadron.
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Opinion: Reparations in Washington, D.C., are a bad idea

Chatanooga Times Free Press 12 Mar 2025
When the white crew took an unsanctioned shore leave in Charleston in the early morning hours of May 13, Smalls and several other slaves hijacked the ship, piloted it past Fort Sumter and surrendered it to a Union blockading squadron.
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What’s being lost with the DOGE cuts? These fired feds can tell you.

The Spokesman-Review 12 Mar 2025
... at East Carolina University, she was one of the experts strapping into diving gear and combing the seafloor between the Florida Keys and Cuba for the lost wreck of a 200-year-old Spanish slave ship.
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Cal Thomas: Reparations are a bad idea

The Morning Journal 10 Mar 2025
When the white crew took an unsanctioned shore leave in Charleston in the early morning hours of May 13, Smalls and several other slaves hijacked the ship, piloted it past Fort Sumter and surrendered it to a Union blockading squadron.
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India’s monopoly will lead cricket to eventual ruin

Independent online (SA) 06 Mar 2025
While governing the Cape Colony, the VOC shipped in 25 000 slaves from Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Madagascar to maintain their hold on the shipping lane between Europe and the Far East, committing ...
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Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum hosts 'Supper at Sea' gala with original art and food

Savannah Morning News 05 Mar 2025
Savannah and the Oceanic Slave Trade, which featured reproductions of the manifests of slave ships coming into Savannah, a deconstructed slave ship and ceramic sculptures in the outside pool ...
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The artist Charles Gaines, his beauty and poignance

The Los Angeles Times 05 Mar 2025
For his three-part project “The American Manifest,” he confronted the ongoing legacies of colonialism and slavery in America with a 110-foot-long sculpture resembling a ship from the slave trade.
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Toni Morrison’s Lost Play

New York Magazine 05 Mar 2025
Phillips (center right). Photo ... He co-directed, staged, and choreographed the Bernstein-Lerner musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, won the Obie for Amiri Baraka’s Slave Ship, and earned a Tony nomination for Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death ... Photo.
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