Event Details
Sunday, Jun 24, 2018
Juneteenth: Talk by Editor of Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon
Time: 2:00 pm til 3:30 pm
Location: Sulphur Springs Museum and Heritage Center, 1101 East River Cove St, Tampa, FL
Description: Deborah Plant, Ph.D., editor of the New York Times best-seller, "Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” by Zora Neale Hurston, speaks Sunday, June 24, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m
There will be refreshments and free admission.
Accompanies the museum's exhibit celebrating Emancipation Day (Juneteenth). Dr. Plant, former Chair of the Africana Studies Department at USF, specializes in the work of Hurston. She will speak on the theme "From Bantè, West Africa to Africatown, Alabama: The Entrepreneurial Spirit of Africans in America," relating this to "Barracoon."
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FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.
