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020			_a9780062748201 _q(hardcover)
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050		4	_aE444 .L49 _bH87 2018
082	0	4	_a306.3/62092 _aB _223
100	1		_aHurston, Zora Neale,
245	1	0	_aBarracoon : _bthe story of the last "black cargo" / _cZora Neale Hurston ; edited and with an introduction by Deborah G. Plant.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bAmistad, _c[2018]
264		1	_aNew York : _bAmistad, _c[2018]
300			_axxviii, 171 pages : _billustrations, photographs ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 155-171).
505	0		_aForeword. 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.
520			_aIn 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{u2019}s history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo{u2019}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{u2019}s past{u2014}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{u2019}s unique vernacular, and written from Hurston{u2019}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 poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.
600	1	0	_aLewis, Cudjo.
610	2	0	_aClotilda (Ship)
650		0	_aSlaves _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aWest Africans _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aSlavery _zAlabama _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aSlave trade _zAfrica _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aSlave trade _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / General. _2bisacsh.
700	1		_aPlant, Deborah G., _d1956-
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