Hurston, Zora Neale
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
- ISBN 13:
- 9780008368036
- author:
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- HQ
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 centimetres (0.27 kg
- Genre:
- History, America, Americas,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon is a deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life. In 1927, she interviewed Cudjo Lewis, one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade, who had been abducted from Africa and sold in America. Hurston spent over three months with Cudjo, recording his firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed. The result is a harrowing and powerful story of the horrors of slavery, told through Cudjo's own memories of his childhood in Africa, his experiences on the Middle Passage, and his years in slavery until the end of the Civil War. This account illuminates the injustices of slavery and provides a unique insight into one of the most significant events in American history.
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