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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

ISBN: 9780062748201

Contributors: Hurston, Zora Neale (Author)
Walker, Alice (Foreword by)
Plant, Deborah G (Introduction by)

Publisher: Amistad Press, 2018

Binding: Hardcover (Readerbound Available)

Retail: $24.99

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1 copy: $19.49
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Description

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. Based on those interviews, which feature Cudjo's unique vernacular, this book illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it.

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