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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.

STRANGE FRUIT Without ‐ sanctuary

Africans Making Slaves of Africans

Sculptor Augusta Savage “Lift every voice & sing”

Railroads & Slave Labor

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

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.

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.

Slave Trade Currency: Cowry Shells Long before our era the cowry shell was known as an instrument of payment and a symbol of wealth and power.

Enslaved Children Bare feet in tattered rags

Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday‐ Lynching in the United States