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Brown Girl Dreaming author Jacqueline Woodson on Africa and slavery's fierce undertow

By Jacqueline Woodson
New York Times·
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Brown Girl Dreaming author Jacqueline Woodson on Africa and slavery's fierce undertow
Brown Girl Dreaming author Jacqueline Woodson on Africa and slavery's fierce undertow

In the coastal town of Elmina, Ghana, the Atlantic Ocean crashes against the rocks with such a ferocity, I make our children move back from the gray-blue water. Four hundred years have passed since captured Africans were forced across these waves on their way to bondage in the New World

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