Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

Company

Library of Congress

Price

$17.99

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Official Store

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, 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. Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering…