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Barracoon : the story of the last \black cargo\

Hurston, Zora Neale, author, Plant, Deborah G., 1956- editor, Walker, Alice, writer of foreword

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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, 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. Based on those interviews, which feature Cudjo's unique vernacular, this book illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it.

• Publisher: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
• Subject: Lewis, Cudjo. / Clotilda (Ship) / Slaves Alabama History 19th century Biography. / West Africans Alabama History 19th century. / West Africans Alabama Biography. / Slaves Alabama Biography. / Slave trade Alabama Mobile History 19th century. / Slave trade Africa History 19th century. / Slavery Alabama History 19th century. / Slave trade United States History 19th century. / Slave ships Alabama. / Mobile (Ala.) History 19th century.
• ISBN: 9780062748201, 0062748203

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E444.L49 H87 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE