![]() ![]() Growing canes and human beings were not to be harmed, as both would be needed afterward, in the rebels' plot, at harvest time. The rebellion thus began as a relatively nonviolent protest, in that only residences and trash storage buildings were targeted. Holt explains that this revolt, "in both rhetoric and tactics," was "a defensive war, intended to maintain rights, privileges, and territory" that the slaves thought had already been won. As such, when slave laborers learned that the mandates of an 1823 slavery "amelioration program," which required planters to improve the rights and conditions of all enslaved people, were not being implemented, they organized a strike (Holt 8). As Britain's largest American slave colony in 1831, Jamaica was a politically and economically vital holding for the crown, as well as a complex society in which "elite" slaves enjoyed some freedom and mobility that allowed them-even if surreptitiously-to access information and organize on their own. Hurston died in 1960 in the Saint Lucie County Welfare Home after suffering complications from a stroke.On the 27th of December 1831, a once-peaceful slave "labor strike" in the British colony of Jamaica broke into full rebellion, hastening the passage of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act just over a year later. Published a variety of articles in journals like the Saturday Evening In the 1940's Hurston returned to Eatonville and although she The negative critical response Hurston recieved Seraph on the Suwanee Hurston completed Tell My Horse and Seraph on the Suwanee,Ī novel based on the experiences of a white cracker family. Man, and was constantly hassled by the judgements of those in theįollowing the publication of Their Eyes Were Watching God Like Janie, Hurston lied about her age, had an affair with a much younger Many of Hurston's characters, is representitive of the author herself. Protagonist Janie to find love that is like a "pear tree." Janie, like Written in seven weeks during a folklore collectingĮxpedition in the Caribbean, the novel captures the plight of ![]() In 1937 Hurston reached the high water mark of herĬreative writing career with the publication of her novel Their Eyes The 1930's also found Hurston at the height of her novel writing career. Returned to Florida to take part in a unpublished collection of folktales and songs entitled The Florida Negro. As part of the WPA writers project Hurston ![]() Sun and Singing Steel, and the WPA writers project. Project, for which she produced her own works The Great Day, From Sun to Her creative talent between her work for the WPA Federal Theatre In addition to collecting folklore Hurston split Went on to publish two collections of folk lore Mules and Men (1935), aĬollection of folktales from her birthplace, and Tell My Horse (1938) a Her interest in the folk translated into aįellowship at Barnard University with famed anthropologist Franz Boas. That prioritized the creative significance of working class black culture "John Redding Goes To Sea," and "Sweat" Hurston created an artistic aesthetic Through the publication of stories such as "Spunk," Soon became one of the prominent New Negro artists who formed the focal No job, no friends, and a lot of hope." Born on JanuinĮatonville, Florida Hurston attended Howard University where she becameĪcquinted with figureheads of the Renaissance such as Alain Locke andĬoming to Harlem at the bequest of Johnson, Hurston Take part in the self-consciously created Harlem Renaissance with " $1.50, In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Harlem to Librarian, a producer, and in her latter and more impoverished years a maid. ![]() She worked as a playwrite, anĪnthropologist, a high school and college Drama professor, a director, a Furthermore, Hurston held many more occupations Shadow." Even the birthdate printed on the tombstone, a birthdate that HurstonĬites in her autobiography, proves inaccurate as family records indicate that she She was a woman as Mary Helen Washington elequently observed "half in Walker placed at her grave at the Garden of Heavenly Rest in 1973,ĭoes not fully or acurately capture her multifacetedĮxistance. Even the epigraph that graces the headstone that Alice Zora Neale Hurston lived many lives during her all to ![]()
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