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“The four men responsible for this last deal in human flesh, before the surrender of Lee at Appomattox should end the 364 years of Western slave trading, were the three Meaher brothers and one Captain [William “Bill”] Foster. Jim, Tim, and Burns Meaher were natives of Maine. They had a mill and shipyard on the Alabama River at the mouth of Chickasabogue Creek (now called Three-Mile Creek)”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

“So much was lost—names, faces, ages, ethnic identities—that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ large must do: take a completely shattered vessel and piece it together,”
― Michael W. Twitty, The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South—A James Beard Award Winner

“the black soldier wasn’t wanted in the first place, and then he was held to a higher standard than the white man.”
― Linda Hervieux, Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War

“Instead of accolades, what many Negro soldiers got after the Armistice was an order to stay behind in France and bury thousands of bodies.”
― Linda Hervieux, Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War