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Strange Fruit Abel Meeropol Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the popular trees Pastoral scene of the gallant south The bulging

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Strange Fruit Abel Meeropol

Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the popular trees Pastoral scene of the gallant south The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh And then the sudden smell of burning flesh Here is fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop.

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STRANGE FRUIT

Without ‐ sanctuary

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Africans Making Slaves of Africans

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Sculptor Augusta Savage

“Lift every voice & sing”

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Railroads & Slave Labor

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The Atlantic Slave Trade was the largest Forced migration in world history.

Escrava Anastacia

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MANILLA: MONEY OF THE SLAVE TRADE

Copper was the "red gold" of Africa and had been both mined there and traded across the Sahara by Italian and Arab merchants.

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SLAVE CURRENCY: African Slave Trade Beads

In Africa, trade beads were used in West Africa by Europeans who got them from Venice, Holland, and Bohemia.

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Slave Trade Currency: Cowry Shells

Long before our era the cowry shell was known as an instrument

f payment and a symbol of wealth and power.

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Enslaved Children

Bare feet in tattered rags

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