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    PAMELA PHATSIMO SUNSTRUM New and Recent Paintings

    Mar 03, 2020 3 minutes
    WITH AN ESSAY BY Edwidge Danticat

    t was in , edited by Toni Morrison, that I first learned that before Christopher Columbus ever thought of my part of the world, the Caribbean, as new, Africans had already been there. Not as enslaved people but as traders and warriors. Among the many things stolen by Columbus and his men from the Arawak, Taíno, and other populations of the Americas were spearheads made of guanín, an alloy of copper, silver, and gold. When asked about the

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