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Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" /

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...

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Main Author: Hurston, Zora Neale (Author)
Other Authors: Plant, Deborah G., 1956- (Editor), Walker, Alice, 1944- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Lewis, Cudjo.
Clotilda (Ship)
Slaves > Alabama > History > 19th century > Biography.
West Africans > Alabama > History > 19th century.
West Africans > Alabama > Biography.
Slaves > Alabama > Biography.
Slave trade > Alabama > Mobile > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > Africa > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Alabama > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > United States > History > 19th century.
Mobile (Ala.) > History > 19th century.
Slave ships > Alabama.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.

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