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How a mass suicide by slaves caused the legend of the flying African to take off

by Thomas Hallock, University of South Florida In May 1803 a group of enslaved Africans from present-day Nigeria, of Ebo or Igbo descent, leaped from...

Modern-day culture wars playing out on tours of slaveholding plantations

These statues of enslaved young boys are part of a modern-day depiction of southern plantation life at the Whitney Museum in Louisiana. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert by...

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