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”