I Was Born in the Forest: A Traveler's Guide to Quilombos, the Citadels of African Resistance to Slavery in Portuguese America, and a Story of Black Spartacus
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I Was Born in the Forest encapsulates the freedom struggle of Africans brought to the Americas in the bowels of slave ships from Congo, Angola, and other parts of Central Africa. In the seventeenth century, many defied the odds by escaping and establishing
Otis L. Lee Jr.
Otis L. Lee Jr. is a retired attorney, formerly a member of both the Pennsylvania and Virginia Bar. He formerly served on the faculties of several Midwestern and East Coast universities and as a director, coordinator, and contributing author to the Howard University School of Business 1980 project to revise and edit the US Department of Commerce manual. Lee is also the author of the memoir From South Boston to Cambridge: The Making of One Philadelphia Lawyer and The Last Train from Djibouti: Africa Beckons Me, But America Is My Home. Lee's career has included assignments with the Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago, Illinois, as a trust-new-business solicitor, with the US Chamber of Commerce as a panel executive on product liability, and with the New York Life Insurance Company as an advanced underwriting consultant for the Mid-Atlantic region.
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