Hannah-Jones revealed in a Los Angeles Times interview that her favorite novel was “The Known World” by Edward Jones, which is about a black slave-owning family in antebellum Virginia. So she’s aware black slave ownership happened. Yet she insulted and then blocked me on Twitter when I pointed out the racially inconvenient fact that a significant percentage of free black Americans owned slaves. That was one of two lies I have caught her in.
Some commentators on Hannah-Jones’s thread mentioned Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo,’” which was based on Hurston’s interviews in 1927 and 1928 with Cudjo Lewis, one of the last survivors of a cargo of slaves brought to American shores illegally in 1860. He had been captured at the age of 19 in a raid employing female warriors from Dahomey—the very subjects of “The Woman King.”
