Joe Tucciarone
Joe Tucciarone is coauthor of two books: Italians Swindled to New York, and Coal War in the Mahoning Valley; the Origin of Greater Youngstown’s Italians. Originally an artist, his book cover illustrations include When the Sun Dies and Night Comes to the Cretaceous. His astronomical animations have appeared in Discovery and National Geographic documentaries.
IT and US: The Slaves of the Harp
On May 14, 1864, a reward was published in a newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, for the capture of Henry, a runaway Black slave. On the same day, Pasquale Falvella posted a reward in a New York tabloid for an eleven-year-old Italian harpist named Antonio Pricolo. The boy had escaped from Falvella, who was a cruel padrone. Although Antonio’s fate is u...