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Barracoon

Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker

From Shelf: Overheard on Marlon & Jake Read Dead People. Ep 15. "Books we wish we had written."

Abducted from Africa, sold in America.

"A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph

A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker.

The true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.

In August 1931, famed anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston travelled to Alabama to visit ninety-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a former slave.

Over three months, Cudjo shared heart-rending memories of his childhood in Africa; the horrors of being captured - fifty years after slavery was outlawed - and held in the Ouidah barracoons for selection by American slavers; the harrowing ordeal of the Middle Passage aboard the Clotilda with over one hundred other souls; and the years he spent in slavery.

Barracoon brings to life Cudjo's singular voice in an invaluable contribution to history and culture, a work as poignant as it is profound.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
208
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
9780008368036
Published Date:
9/1/2020
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight:
220g
Category:
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780008368036


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