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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0318-accs
  • Summary(0:31) Commemorating 1619 in the black community -- (0:50) Immigrant from Jamaica -- (01:06) America's historical oppression of black people -- (01:22) Enslavement persists -- (02:06) Abolition of slavery in France and Haiti -- (02:36) Need to dismantle white supremacy -- (02:55) Personal vision of utopia -- (03:25) She visits Jamaica to escape trauma of American life -- (03:48) African Americans face terrorism in America -- (04:02) Revolution will come when discrimination ends.
  • Date2019-10-26
  • Physical Description1 sound file (5 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorCampbell, Aretha
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Digital Public Library of AmericaThis item is represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
  • Formatsound recording-nonmusical
  • Genreinterviews
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on October 26, 2019, by Taina Evans at the Central Library. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
  • SubjectSlavery ; Abolition of slavery ; African Americans--History ; African Americans--Reparations
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
  • TitleOral history interview with Aretha Campbell conducted on 2019 October 26.