Echoes from the Attic: Stories of Slavery and Freedom-Making in Newport, RI

An accessible, softcover volume which takes up the unfinished conversation about what it is to be a descendant member of the Black community in Newport, RI, and beyond, today.“There is a world of something in the nkisi bundle, and that world was brought to Newport, Rhode Island, where Black descendant communities—since the beginning of Newport’s relationship with the transatlantic slave trade—were dispersed by the wind at sea, allowing the cycles of African and African identities to begin a...