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We Were Never Just Slaves: Maroons, Queen Nzinga & the Haitian Revolution
Resistance ran a whole spectrum — from a newspaper on a cabin wall to a republic in the Caribbean. In this episode of Sankofa Chronicles, Mr. Black History walks that spectrum: the everyday resistance historian Stephanie Camp uncovered in the plantation South, the 1755 poisoning case of Mark and Phillis, the maroon towns that won freedom with a clause, Queen Nzinga of Angola — who fought Portugal for thirty years — and the Haitian Revolution, the one revolt that won outright... then paid France for its own freedom until 1947.
Drawing on Stephanie Camp, John Blassingame, Sylviane Diouf, Linda…
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