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Aug 9, 2010

Great Zora Neale Hurston Footage

by Liberty and Power

The libertarian-oriented black novelist Zora Neale Hurston (who also briefly appears) filmed this footage in 1928 chronicling her anthropological field work. The scenes include a baptism and Cudjo Lewis, a survivor of the last slave ship to arrive in the United States in 1859.

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C.J. Maloney - 8/11/2010

Amazing! Where did you find this?!!?