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From:TheBahamasWeekly.com Arts & Culture
a great Black Seminole Freedomist with links from Florida to Oklahoma to Mexico to The Bahamas) Linda Cousins-Newton’s Free Globally!–-The International Underground Railroad has actually gone global with the release of the third edition as both a print book and an e-book available on Amazon, I-Tunes, Sony eBook Reader, and Barnes & Noble. Underground Railroad lecturer, educator, ancestral storyteller, and Nana Harriet Tubman Honor in Ghana Project founder, Cousins-Newton, reveals in Free Globally!, the astounding, daring, and determined expansion of the slavery era’s underground railroad to global territories, ranging from The Bahamas to Mexico, from Canada to Africa.
Labeling the 242-page tome “conversational history from the heart
with a touch of humor”, the author interweaves her own experiences as a
journalist, performer, and cultural traveler to the varied cultural realms
touched upon by the liberty embracers whose ancestral souls passionately
reach out in historical revelation through the pages of her
work. Particularly prominent in
Free Globally! are
the Black Seminoles of Florida whose freedom-driven presence was a potent
force on the Southern Underground Railroad and who, forced with their
Native American Seminole colleagues, friends and family, to leave their
land, ushered the underground railroad to varied global spots where their
influence is still powerfully felt.
A promoter of and performer with her Black Seminole-descended husband
Steve “Papa” Newton in The Bahamas’ vibrant ancestral Junkanoo culture,
the Brooklyn author, who coordinated Junkanoo performances at both the
Super Bowl and UN venues, lifts in a colorful, “down-home” storyteller
manner, inspired by her Tennessee and Georgia roots, the myriad,
cross-cultural global coalitions and “love warrior” connections that
fueled the passion, dedication, and determination of 19th century
travelers on the international underground railroad. Free Globally
!–-The International Underground Railroad is indeed
warmly shared conversational history straight from the global, ancestral
heart. (Samples of the e-book, which sells for $8.99 can
be viewed on Amazon, Barnes&Noble, I-Tunes, and Sony E-Book
Reader. An excerpt of the ending section of the book can be viewed
on the book's website: www.blackseminoles.com.
The print version can be purchased directly from Ancestral ProMotions for
$16.99 postpaid)
Free Globally! -
The International Underground Railroad
Website and Podcast:
http://www.blackseminoles.com
http://ancespirit.blogspot.
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