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Afro-American History, Part 3 of 3: (1) Commentary on William Wells Brown; (2) Haiti
John Sekora outlines the life and work of the first black American man of letters, William Wells Brown, the nineteenth-century novelist, historian, physician, and journalist. Sekora’s comments begin and conclude this episode of Soundings and continue the overview he began in the program … Continue reading
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Tagged African American History, Haiti -- History, William Wells Brown
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Afro-American History, Part 2 of 3: (1) Ethiopia; (2) Commentary on William Wells Brown
By nearly all accounts–political, social, and moral–Ethiopia in the mid-1980s was one of the crisis points in contemporary global relations. According to Harold Marcus, the answers to many Ethiopian issues, including politics and subsistence, are as varied as Ethiopia’s cultural, linguistic, … Continue reading
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