Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
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Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
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The work Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Culver-Union Township Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Title remainder
- the story of the last "black cargo"
- Statement of responsibility
- Zora Neale Hurston ; edited by Deborah G. Plant ; foreword by Alice Walker
- Title variation
- Story of the last "black cargo"
- Title variation remainder
- the story of the last black cargo
- Subject
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- Alabama -- Mobile
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | African American & Black
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Clotilda (Ship)
- Clotilda (Ship)
- trueExploitation
- History
- trueHistory writing -- United States -- African American | Enslavement
- trueLewis, Cudjo
- Lewis, Cudjo
- Lewis, Cudjo
- Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies | African American Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery
- Slave ships
- Slave ships -- Alabama
- Slave trade
- trueSlave trade
- Slave trade -- Africa -- History
- Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 19th century
- Slave trade -- Alabama | Mobile -- History -- 19th century
- Slave trade -- United States -- History
- Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- trueSlaveholders
- Slavery
- trueSlavery
- Slavery -- Alabama -- History
- Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
- Slaves
- trueSlaves
- Slaves -- Alabama -- Biography
- Slaves -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century -- Biography
- Slaves -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- West Africans
- West Africans -- Alabama -- Biography
- West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
- West Africans -- United States -- Biography
- trueFreed slaves
- 1800-1899
- Africa
- trueAfrican Americans -- History
- Alabama
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- NHP
- Dewey number
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- 306.3/62092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E444.L49
- LC item number
- H87 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
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