Barracoon

The Story of the Last Slave

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Beschreibung

<p><strong><em>Abducted from Africa, sold in America.</em></strong></p><p><em>"A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- <strong>Daily Telegraph</strong></em></p><p>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.</p><p><strong>The true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.</strong></p><p>In August 1931, famed anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston travelled to Alabama to visit ninety-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a former slave.</p><p>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.</p><p>Barracoon brings to life Cudjo's singular voice in an invaluable contribution to history and culture, a work as poignant as it is profound.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780008368036

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

200 x 130 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

HarperCollins Publishers