Barracoon : The Story of the Last Slave (9780008368036)

Abducted from Africa, sold in America.

"A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph

A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker.

The true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.

In August 1931, famed anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston travelled to Alabama to visit ninety-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a former slave.

Over three months, Cudjo shared heart-rending memories of his childhood in Africa; the horrors of being captured - fifty years after slavery was outlawed - and held in the Ouidah barracoons for selection by American slavers; the harrowing ordeal of the Middle Passage aboard the Clotilda with over one hundred other souls; and the years he spent in slavery.

Barracoon brings to life Cudjo's singular voice in an invaluable contribution to history and culture, a work as poignant as it is profound.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 208 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 20mm | 220g
• Publication date 09 Jan 2020
• Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint HQ
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN10 0008368031
• ISBN13 9780008368036
• Bestsellers rank 4,326

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