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Friday Fun Link: Zora Neale Hurston and Zombies

Damon Root | 7.15.2011 4:17 PM

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Via the Twitter feed of Terry Teachout, a 1943 interview with the great novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston where she talks about her experiences with zombies in Haiti.

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of three books, including A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books). His latest book is Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment (Potomac Books).

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