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<p>Historian Gerald Horne reviews John Harris's book on the role of New York merchants in the illegal last phase of the Atlantic slave trade, which persisted despite the law because trade in human beings enriched Americans throughout the nation. </p>
The Slave Ship by J.M.W. Turner. (Barney Burstein / Corbis / VCG via Getty Images)
In the middle of 1856, the soon-to-be-celebrated poet Walt Whitman visited an impounded slave ship in Brooklyn. The taking of the ship was an unusual occurrence, as it was one of the few illegal slavers seized by an otherwise lethargic Washington, D.C., and Whitman wanted to give his readers a tour of the vessel, which had been designed to add even more enslaved laborers to the millions already ensnared in this system of iniquity, including of its hold, where those victimized were to be “laid together spoon-fashion.”
FLORIDA BUILDINGS I LOVE: No. 72: Cocoon House, 1950, Siesta Key
3575 Bayou Louise Lane. Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph, architects
Harold Bubil
Many an architect’s first house was for his or her mother.
In Sarasota in the late 1940s, the new architectural partnership of Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph was getting a lot of attention for their progressive, experimental house designs that took International School modernism and adapted it for Sarasota’s flat, waterfront landscape and subtropical climate.
Some locals found their rectangular, flat-roofed, trim-free structures to be shocking. So to get work and advance their art and craft, they did projects for Twitchell’s secretary, Lu Andrews, as well as his new in-laws, the Healys of Siesta Key.
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DJI Mini 2 is currently one of the best drones in the market. It is the second generation of the DJI Innovations drone. Some professional photographers and other experts-alike are usually going for the big drones since they provide great resolution qualities.
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NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 23: A new DJI Mavic Zoom drone is displayed during a product launch event at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, August 23, 2018 in New York City. DJI announced the release of two new drones, the Mavic 2 Pro and the Mavic 2 Zoom, which includes a 2x optical zoom lens. On sale starting today, the Mavic 2 Pro, featuring a Hasselblad lens, will retail for $1,449 and the Mavic 2 Zoom will retail at $1,249.