In store now! Barracoon: The Story Of The Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurston

A landmark in historical and political writing, Hurston here presents the story of the last legally owned slave: Cudjo Lewis. In presenting Cudjo’s story, Hurston disrupts the notion of slavery as a long resolved issue, and details how the after affects still cast a shadow over the lived experience of many African-Americans. Each of the millions of people who were for centuries traded and worked to death has a story like Cudjo’s. Hurston’s history a damning indictment, as well as an assertion of the individual experience in the vast tapestry of history.

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Barracoon: The Story Of The Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurston

Paperback £9.99

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.

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