Here is a more detailed

rmrd0000 — Wed, 02 May 2018 12:50:36 +0000

In reply to The story of the last slave

Here is a more detailed analysis of Hurston. She favored Booker T over W.E.B. and disagreed with Brown v. Board because it suggested that blacks were inferior.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Newly-Complicated-Zora/125753

The story of the last slave

rmrd0000 — Wed, 02 May 2018 12:24:09 +0000

In reply to "The Last Slave": Zora Neale Hurston's "Barracoon" of 1931 is finally published

The story of the last slave ship was dismissed for a long time. Hurston’s research gives the story life.

https://ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/question/2005/july.htm

There was hope that the Clotilda had been discovered, but this was not the case

https://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2018/03/wreck_found_in_delta_not_the_c.html

Questlove, a member of A Band Called Quest is a descendent of slaves who were on the Clotilda.

https://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2017/12/pbs_special_reveals_questlove.html

Interestingly, Hurston would have been very comfortable as a pundit on Fox News.

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/05/132674087/the-root-zora-neale-hurston-was-a-conservative

The book is scheduled for release on May 8, 2018

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Here is a more detailed

The story of the last slave