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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...

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Main Author: Hurston, Zora Neale,
Other Authors: Plant, Deborah G., 1956-, Walker, Alice, 1944-, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Physical Description: xxviii, 171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Lewis, Cudjo.
Clotilda (Ship)
Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
West Africans -- Alabama -- Biography.
Enslaved persons -- 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.
Slave ships -- Alabama.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.
West Africans -- United States -- Biography.
Slavery -- Alabama -- History.
Slave trade -- Africa -- History.
Slave trade -- United States -- History.
Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century.

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