Format:
Book
Author:
Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
Title:
Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" / Zora Neale Hurston ; edited by Deborah G. Plant ; [foreword by Alice Walker].
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
©2018
Description:
xxviii, 171 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Summary:
Presents a previously unpublished work that illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery in the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade, Cudjo Lewis, who was abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States.
Subjects:
Lewis, Cudjo.
Clotilda (Ship)
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.
West Africans -- United States -- Biography.
Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Other Author:
Plant, Deborah G., 1956- editor, writer of introduction.
Walker, Alice, writer of foreword.
Notes:
Foreword by Alice Walker -- on jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-171).
ISBN:
9780062748201 (hardcover)
0062748203 (hardcover)
Other Number:
1021879113
System Availability:
56
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3603964
Call Number:
306.3/62092 B
Course Reserves:
0
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55