Charleston City Newspaper: Alexander’s new work on slavery includes nod to Charleston
Nationally acclaimed poet Kwame Alexander will bring his just-published children’s book, An American Story, next week to Charleston in a fitting stop about its subject: slavery.
As will be illustrated later this year on a global scale when the International African American Museum opens, Charleston’s port received a greater share of the trans-Atlantic slave trade than any other mainland North American port by accepting about 40% of all African captives forcibly brought to the continent.
