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John Harris

30 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read

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…

Hannah Durkin's article in Slavery and Abolition, "Finding last middle passage survivor Sally ‘Redoshi’ Smith on the page and screen" zeros in on another survivor. Well worth reading (great sleuthing by Dr. Durkin) tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/01…

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29 Nov

Lots of new followers so a brief intro: I'm a Northern Irish immigrant to the U.S., a husband, dad/foster dad, historian of the U.S. and slavery, and a prof in South Carolina /1

I will always miss Baltimore, though, where I spent 6 years before my current gig and got a proper education in every way /2

Maybe it's my background but I tend to view the U.S. in international perspective, both in the past and present. It's a useful frame /2

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28 Nov

Emilio Sanchez is one of the most interesting and important abolitionists you've never heard of. He was an anti-slave trade spy in #NewYorkCity in the 1850s and 1860s //THREAD

Born in Cuba, Sanchez was a merchant in New York by the 1850s, when the illegal slave trade to the island had become rampant. Hundreds of ships left Manhattan for Africa in these years, bringing 164,000 captives to Cuba. /2

As U.S. authorities largely stood idly by, the abolitionist British consul in New York, Edward Archibald (below), sought eyes and ears on the waterfront. Sanchez, who had recently fallen foul of the traffickers (more in the book), stepped up. /3

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