Detail of The Slave Ship by J.M.W. Turner. (Barney Burstein / Corbis / VCG via Getty Images) In the middle of 1856, the soon-to-be-celebrated poet Walt Whitman visited an impounded slave ship in ...
NANTES, France — On the banks of the Loire River in this port city, students come almost every day to see France’s only memorial to slaves brought by French ships to the New World. Gray steps lead ...
Knopf. 323 pp. $26.95 In the bitterly cold winter of 1741, strange things happened on the island of Manhattan. Though fires were not uncommon in those days of wooden structures and fireplaces, the 10 ...
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