BARRACOON
 
Abducted from Africa, sold in America.

The compelling true story of one of the last survivors of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Barracoon recounts one man�s fight for freedom. After being illegally smuggled as �Black Cargo� fifty years after the abolition of slavery, Cudjo Lewis spent nearly six years in captivity before being finally emancipated.

Cudjo casts light on the circumstances of his capture and his detention in a barracoon, before embarking on his journey through the Middle Passage, to his arrival in the Unites States on the Alabama River.

This never-before published work, from the best-selling American author of Their Eyes are Watching God, brilliantly illuminates the tragedy of slavery and one life forever defined by it.
 
About the Author
 
Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, was deemed �one of the greatest writers of our time� by Toni Morrison. With the publication of Lies and Other Tall Tales, The Skill Talks
 
Back and What�s the Hurry, Fox? new generations will be introduced to Hurston�s legacy. She was born in Notasulga, Alabama, in 1891 and died in 1960.
 
Product details
Publisher : HQ (25 July 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 208 pages
ISBN-10 : 0008297665
ISBN-13 : 978-0008297664
Item Weight : 40 g
Dimensions : 12.9 x 1.32 x 19.8 cm