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Based on those interviews, which feature Cudjo's unique vernacular, this book illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. 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. 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. Eatonville, Florida meets Eastonville D.C.About the Book In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis.Gearing up for the annual Zora Festivals!.Harper Perennial and the Zora Neale Hurston Trust sign a new exclusive deal.2012 Zora Neale Hurston Award winner announced!.

Wreckage of Last Known Slave Ship in U.S.Descendants’ Stories of the Clotilda Slave Ship Drew Doubts.A Work by Zora Neale Hurston Will Finally Be Published.Barracoon and Slave Old Man Approach the Trauma of Slavery With Care and Kinship.Event: Between the Lines: Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” May 8th 2018.Barracoon Tells The Story Of The Last Slave In First Person.Zora Neale Hurston’s Long-Unpublished Barracoon Finds Its Place After Decades of Delay.Widespread coverage of the release of Barracoon.The Last Slave (with excerpt of Barracoon).“You Don’t Know Us Negroes” adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston, who was a tireless crusader in all her writing, and ahead of her time.

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