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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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One of Zora Neale Hurston's greatest strengths lay in her use of language and diction, creating an immersive, exacting reading experience. An incredible historic account published almost 60 years after her death, Barracoon is a shining example of what made her one of our most important writers.
A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from Africa on the last ""Black Cargo"" ship to arrive in the United States.
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the mil...