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Slave Ship by Amiri Baraka

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Name: Imamu Amiri Baraka
Variant Name: Everett LeRoi Jones
Birth Date: October 30, 1934
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, author, playwright, poet

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Biography of Imamu Amiri Baraka
872 words, approx. 2.9 pages
The African American author Imamu Amiri Baraka (born 1934 as Everett LeRoi Jones) became influential during the 1960s as a spokesperson for radical black literature and theater. Born as Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, on October 30, 1934, Bara...
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Biography of Imamu Amiri Baraka
11654 words, approx. 38.8 pages
An influential figure among the literary avant-garde of Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Amiri Baraka (known as LeRoi Jones until 1968) has been a seminal force in the development of contemporary Afro-Ameri...
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Biography of Amiri Baraka
10855 words, approx. 36.2 pages
An influential figure among the literary avant-garde of Greenwich Village and the lower East Side during the late 1950s and early 1950s, Amiri Baraka (known as LeRoi Jones until 1968) has been a seminal force in the development of contemporary Afro-Ameri...
 


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The Journal of Southern History
The Slave Ship Fredensborg
02/01/2003: 513 words, approx. 2 pages
The Slave Ship Fredensborg. By Leif Svalesen. Translated by Pat Shaw and Selena Winsnes. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2000. Pp. 244. $45.00, ISBN 0-253-33777-1.) Leif Svalesen has brought a slave ship and its crew back from the dead in a...
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Black Renaissance
The Slave Ship Saga
07/01/2001: 830 words, approx. 3 pages
The subterranean bough of a slave ship conjures visions of hell and of a womb. Mythologically and biologically, birth cannot be realized without death. Inside the slave ship all that are present must die to be reborn; the captain, crew and slave are captives...
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AP News
Book explores history of slave ships
10/20/2007: 1,189 words, approx. 4 pages
Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves.Aboard the slaver, or Guineaman, as the vessels were also known, the kidnapped Africans frequently had to travel in living quarters as cramped as coffins,...
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Maryland apologizes for slavery
3/26/2007: 269 words, approx. 1 pages
Maryland lawmakers approved an apology Monday for the state's role in the slave trade, expressing "profound regret" that it once "trafficked in human flesh."Maryland follows Virginia in issuing a formal apology.The vote in the House of Delegates makes the apology official, because a resolution doesn't...
 


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