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The literature on the African slave trade, Hurston wrote, had endless “words from the seller, but not one word from the sold.

The literature on the African slave trade, Hurston wrote, had endless “words from the seller, but not one word from the sold.”Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / Carl Van Vechten Trust / Beinecke Library, Yale