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What was Walt Whitman doing on a slave ship in 1856? /Thread 
Whitman had recently published the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Reviews were mixed. He was struggling financially. He returned to journalism in New York. /2
Whitman accepted a commission from Life Illustrated to report on a ship named the Braman. This vessel had been about to sail to Africa before U.S. authorities, suspecting it was a slave ship, impounded it at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn (the slave trade was illegal since 1808) /3
As we wait for CBS's 60 Minutes to begin let me mention really good work that historians have done on the illegal voyage of the #Clotilda, 1860 /1
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" edited by Deborah Plant is interviews conducted by Zora Neale Hurston in the early 1900s with Oluale Kossola (Cudjoe Lewis), a survivor of the voyage. An incredible resource and very effective for teaching harpercollins.com/products/barra…
Sylviane A. Diouf's Dreams of Africa in Alabama is a wonderful book and highly recommended. Follows the story from Africa to Alabama and into the 20C. A prize winning book. global.oup.com/academic/produ…
