A Poisonous Legacy – New York City and the persistence of the Middle Passage.
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Detail of The Slave Ship by J.M.W. Turner. (Barney Burstein / Corbis / VCG via Getty Images) – By Gerald Horne 2021 Feb 24 – In the middle of 1856, the soon-to-be-celebrated poet Walt Whitman visited an impounded slave ship in Brooklyn. The …