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Adam Goodheart

The Last Island of the Savages

A voyage to North Sentinel island, home to one of the last entirely isolated populations on Earth.

Adam Goodheart The American Scholar Sep 2000 1h5min Permalink

History

How Slavery Really Ended in America

Like hundreds of other local slaves — [they] had been pressed into service by the Confederates, compelled to build an artillery emplacement amid the dunes across the harbor. They labored beneath the banner of the 115th Virginia Militia, a blue flag bearing a motto in golden letters: “Give me liberty or give me death.”

Adam Goodheart New York Times Magazine Mar 2011 20min Permalink