Show Notes:
https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/henry-louis-gates-jr
https://german.fas.harvard.edu/people/maria-tatar
https://www.instagram.com/p/DM-bkiayu7R/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9EgvKJekrA
All stories read from “Annotated African American Folktales” Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr and Maria Tatar
Story 1: Flying African’s on page 83. The original source is from Petronella Breinburg, “Sjaki and the flying slaves” in Legends of Suriname.
Story 2: The skull that talks back, on page 116. Originally sourced from “Mules and Men” by Zora Neal Hurston.
Story 3: John and the Blacksnake on page 129. Originally sourced from Harold Courlander’s “A treasure of Afro-American Folklore”
