Barracoon: the story of the last "black cargo"
(Large Print)
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.
Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Biography.
Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
Lewis, Cudjo.
Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century.
Slave ships -- Alabama.
Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
West Africans -- Alabama -- Biography.
West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
Hurston, Z. N., Plant, D. G., & Walker, A. (2018). Barracoon: the story of the last "black cargo". First HarperLuxe edition. New York, NY, HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hurston, Zora Neale, Deborah G. Plant and Alice Walker. 2018. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "black Cargo". New York, NY, HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hurston, Zora Neale, Deborah G. Plant and Alice Walker, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "black Cargo". New York, NY, HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hurston, Zora Neale,, et al. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "black Cargo". First HarperLuxe edition. New York, NY, HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 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 Jona -- Now disa Abraham fadda de faitful -- The lion woman -- Afterword and additional materials / edited by Deborah G. Plant. | |
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