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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 natio...

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Main Author: Hurston, Zora Neale (Author)
Other Authors: Plant, Deborah G., 1956- (Editor), Walker, Alice, 1944- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Lewis, Cudjo.
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.
Slave ships > Alabama.
Mobile (Ala.) > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword. 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 Jona
  • Now disa Abraham fadda de faitful
  • The lion woman
  • Afterword and additional materials / edited by Deborah G. Plant.

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