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Jamestown: 400 Years and Counting

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Tim Hashaw, journalist and the author of The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown (Carroll & Graf, 2007) and Karen Ordahl Kupperman, professor of history at New York University and the author of The Jamestown Project (Belknap Press, 2007), discuss new views of the Jamestown colony as we observe the 400th anniversary of its founding.

The Jamestown Project and The Birth of Black America are available for purchase at Amazon.com.

“The First Black Americans” in U.S. News & World Report
Prof. Kupperman’s NYU webpage


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