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Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

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John H. Smith (left), mayor of Prichard, Alabama, unsuccessfully campaigned for the creation of an Africatown national park.

The Forgotten 1980s Battle to Preserve Africatown

A new book tells the definitive history of an Alabama community founded by survivors of the slave trade.

by Nick Tabor via Smithsonian on February 20, 2023

Man walks among worn headstones in Black cemetery.

Black Baptists Discover Lost Cemetery in Virginia

African American church graveyards are disappearing. Can they be saved before it’s too late?

by Nick Tabor via Christianity Today on February 8, 2022

Protest sign reading "We never left Jim Crow."

Voter Fraud Propagandists Are Recycling Jim Crow Rhetoric

The conservative plot to suppress the Black vote has relied on racist caricatures, then and now.

by Nick Tabor via The New Republic on February 4, 2022

The Last Slave

In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston recorded the story of Cudjo Lewis, the last living slave-ship survivor. It languished in a vault... until now.

by Zora Neale Hurston, Nick Tabor via Vulture on April 29, 2018

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