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Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

History & Social Policy • 32m

Hannah Durkin and Christienna Fryar discuss the stories of the last 110 captives sold into slavery in the Atlantic slave trade. Drawing on Durkin's intensive archival, historical, and sociological research they discuss her new book Survivors which follows the lives of captives from their kidnappings in what is modern-day Nigeria to slavery in America and their descendants lives in the Jim Crow South.

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