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Barracoon The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" Hardcover - 2018
by Hurston, Zora Neale & Alice Walker & Deborah G. Plant
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- Title Barracoon The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
- Author Hurston, Zora Neale & Alice Walker & Deborah G. Plant
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; First Printing
- Condition Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Amistad, New York
- Date 2018
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 41474
- ISBN 9780062748201 / 0062748203
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.8 in (21.08 x 14.73 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Alabama
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress subjects Slaves - Alabama, Slavery - Alabama - History - 19th century
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.362
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From the rear cover
From the author of the classic Their Eyes Were Watching God comes a landmark publication - a never-before-published work of the American experience.
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Plateau, Alabama, to visit eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a survivor of the Clotilda, the last slaver known to have made the transatlantic journey. Illegally brought to the United States, Cudjo was enslaved fifty years after the slave trade was outlawed.
At the time, Cudjo was the only person alive who could recount this integral part of the nation's history. As a cultural anthropologist, Hurston was eager to hear about these experiences firsthand. But the reticent elder didn't always speak when she came to visit. Sometimes he would tend his garden, repair his fence, or appear lost in his thoughts.
Hurston persisted, though, and during an intense three-month period, she and Cudjo communed over her gifts of peaches and watermelon, and gradually Cudjo, a poetic storyteller, began to share heartrending memories of his childhood in Africa; the attack by female warriors who slaughtered his townspeople; the horrors of being captured and held in the barracoons of Ouidah for selection by American traders; the harrowing ordeal of the Middle Passage aboard the Clotilda as "cargo" with more than one hundred other souls; the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War; and finally his role in the founding of Africatown.
Barracoon employs Hurston's skills as both an anthropologist and a writer, and brings to life Cudjo's singular voice, in his vernacular, in a poignant, powerful tribute to the disremembered and the unaccounted. This profound work is an invaluable contribution to our history and culture.
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- Booklist, 05/15/2018, Page 4
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2018, Page 0
- Library Journal, 05/01/2018, Page 78
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 12/01/2017, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 03/26/2018, Page 0
- Shelf Awareness, 06/15/2018, Page 0