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Author Hurston, Zora Neale, author.

Title Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" / Zora Neale Hurston ; edited by Deborah G. Plant ; foreword by Alice Walker.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  306.362 HURSTON    DUE 04-08-24
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY LEWIS    DUE 04-10-24
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  BIOG. LEWIS, C.    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. LEWIS, C.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.362 HURSTON    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Overflow Collection  306.362 HURSTON    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  306.362 HURSTON    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B LEWIS    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY LEWIS    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY LEWIS, CUDJO    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xxviii, 205 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-171)
Contents Foreword. Those who love us never leave us alone with our grief : reading Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" / by Alice Walker -- Introduction -- Editor's note -- Barracoon. Preface -- Introduction -- The king arrives -- Barracoon -- Slavery -- Freedom -- Marriage -- Kossula learns about law -- Alone -- Appendix. Takkoi or Attako--children's game -- Stories Kossula told me -- The monkey and the camel -- Story of de Jona -- Now disa Abraham fadda de faitful -- The lion woman -- Afterword and additional materials / edited by Deborah G. Plant.
Summary 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. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo's past--memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War. Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo's unique vernacular, and written from Hurston's perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.--Publisher's website.
Subject Lewis, Cudjo.
West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
Clotilda (Ship)
Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 19th century.
Local Subject Trafficking in enslaved persons -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Subject Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Biography.
Local Subject Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
Subject Slave ships -- Alabama.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.
Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
West Africans -- Alabama -- Biography.
Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
Slave trade -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
Local Subject Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Africa -- History -- 19th century.
Subject Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century.
Added Author Plant, Deborah G., 1956- editor.
Walker, Alice, 1944- writer of foreword.
ISBN 9780062748201 (hardcover)
0062748203 (hardcover)
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