In this episode, writer Matthew Hunte joins host Catherine Nichols to discuss David Bradley's 1981 novel The Chaneysville Incident, a historical novel based on a legend of thirteen runaway slaves who killed themselves to avoid being caught and returned to slavery. Matthew Hunte is a writer from St. Lucia, whose essays include "In Praise of Minor Literature," and "Albert Murray and the Americas."

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