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The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

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<p><strong><em>New York Times</em> Bestseller . <em>TIME M</em>agazine<em>'s</em> Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 . New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 . NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 . <em>Economist </em>Book of the Year . [...]'s Best Books of 2018 . Audible's Best of the Year . BookRiot's Best Audio Books of 2018 . The Atlantic's Books Briefing: History, Reconsidered . Atlanta Journal Constitution, Best Southern Books 2018 . The Christian Science Monitor's Best Books 2018</strong><strong> . </strong></p><p><strong>"A profound impact on Hurston's literary legacy."-<em>New York Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>"One of the greatest writers of our time."-Toni Morrison</strong></p><p><strong>"Zora Neale Hurston's genius has once again produced a <em>Maestrapiece</em>."-Alice Walker</strong></p><p><strong>A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God, </em>with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade-abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States.</strong></p><p>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's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States.</p><p>In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the det

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780062748218

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

200 x 132 x 14 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. USA