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Slave revolt film revisits history often omitted from textbooks

  • Written by Ana Paulina Lee, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University
Reenactment of 1811 German Coast Uprising. Soul Brother

Armed with machetes and pitchforks and uttering chants of “Freedom or Death,” hundreds of men and women made their way along a 26-mile route along the River Parishes of Louisiana.

The spectacle – which I witnessed in November 2019 in St. John the Baptist Parish, in the...

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