![]() ![]() They embarked not as people but as property.” “Some 40% of Angolans who boarded that ghastly vessel did not make it across the middle passage. They had been captured and stolen, forced onto a ship, shackled, writhing in filth as they suffered and starved,” she writes. “The Adams and Eves of Black America did not arrive here in search of freedom or better life. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones writes a chapter on the arrival of the White Lion, a harrowing tale which she calls “classically American.” "Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019" collects the work of 90 writers - historians, poets, journalists, novelists and activists - to tell the stories of Black Americans, from the arrival of the White Lion, which brought enslaved people to the colonies in 1619, to the Black Lives Matter movement. ![]() Click here for that audio.Ī new book takes a communal look at a history that has long been buried. ![]() ![]() "Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019." (Courtesy) This article is more than 2 years old.Įditor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Jan. ![]()
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