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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Hurston, Zora Neale.     Subjects     Lewis, Cudjo.     Clotilda (Ship)     Slaves -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.     West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.     West Africans -- 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 -- History.     Blacks -- Alabama -- Biography.     Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hurston, Zora Neale.       by title:      Barracoon : the stor...       by call number:      306.362092 H966b     Search the Web     Hurston, Zora Neale.     Lewis, Cudjo.     Clotilda (Ship)     Slaves -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.     West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.     West Africans -- 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 -- History.     Blacks -- Alabama -- Biography.     Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century.       MARC Display

Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" / Zora Neale Hurston ; edited by Deborah G. Plant ; foreword by Alice Walker. by Hurston, Zora Neale. Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. Call #: 306.362092 H966b Subjects Lewis, Cudjo.   Clotilda (Ship)   Slaves -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.   West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.   West Africans -- 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 -- History.   Blacks -- Alabama -- Biography.   Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9780062748201 (hc.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xxviii, 171 p. : ill. ; 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 -- 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 Jonah -- 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 work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture. Other authors:  Plant, Deborah G., 1956- Walker, Alice, 1944- Amistad (Firm) HarperCollins (Firm) Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 306.362092 H966b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 306.362092 H966b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 306.362092 H966b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 306.362092 H966b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 306.362092 H966b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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