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It is a new entry for Cornwall in the 25th anniversary year of a list set up to highlight and protect heritage sites.

A new book takes a communal look at a history that has long been buried. "Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019" collects the work of 90 writers — historians, poets, journalists, novelists and activists — to tell the stories of Black Americans, from the arrival of the White Lion, which brought enslaved people to the colonies in 1619, to the Black Lives Matter movement. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones writes a chapter on th...