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Zora Neale Hurston

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

€13,95

In August 1931, famed anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston travelled to Alabama to visit ninety-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a former slave. Over three months, Cudjo shared heart-rending memories of his childhood in Africa; the horrors of being captured - fifty years after slavery was outlawed - and held in the Ouidah barracoons for selection by American slavers; the harrowing ordeal of the Middle Passage aboard the Clotilda with over one hundred other souls; and the years he spent in slavery. Barracoon brings to life Cudjo's singular voice in an invaluable contribution to history and culture, a work as poignant as it is profound.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 208
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780008368036
ISBN 10: 0008368031

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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

€13,95