Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" is a book by Zora Neale Hurston is a nonfiction account based on Hurston’s 1927 interviews with Cudjo Lewis(Oluale Kossola), one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.

The book presents Cudjo’s firsthand narrative of his capture in Africa, the horrors of the Middle Passage aboard the Clotilda, his enslavement in Alabama, and life after emancipation.

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