5/14/2023 0 Comments Four thousand souls![]() What follows, as the book’s subtitle makes clear, is a whistle-stop tour of 400 years, in a series of crisply written three- or four-page essays, short stories and personal reflections. ![]() At its heart, Four Hundred Souls addresses the question: whose story is it anyway? Their shameful erasure marks “the propaganda of history”, argues Hannah-Jones, and it’s imperative that the tale of both ships is recognised as “inherently intertwined, inseparable”. ![]() by criminal English marauders in exchange for food and supplies”. ![]() The opening essay, Arrival by Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the 1619 Project, interrogates the official silence over the arrival in Virginia in 1619 – a year before the Mayflower – of the White Lion, with its “cargo” comprising “30 Angolans, sold from the deck. ![]()
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