Barracoon: the story of the last 'black cargo'
(Book)
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.
Hurston, Z. N., & Plant, D. G. (2018). Barracoon: the story of the last 'black cargo'. First edition. New York, Amistad.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hurston, Zora Neale and Deborah G. Plant. 2018. Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'black Cargo'. New York, Amistad.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hurston, Zora Neale and Deborah G. Plant, Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'black Cargo'. New York, Amistad, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hurston, Zora Neale, and Deborah G. Plant. Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'black Cargo'. First edition. New York, Amistad, 2018.
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505 | 0 | |a Foreword. Those who love us never leave us alone with our grief : reading Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" / by Alice Walker -- Introduction -- Editor's note -- Barracoon. Preface -- Introduction -- 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 : Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Founders and original residents of Africatown -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography. | |
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