FICTION

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

by Zora Neale Hurston

Amistad. May 2018. 208p. ISBN 9780062748201. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062748225. AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

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In 1927, iconic African American writer Hurston interviewed 95-year-old Cudjo Lewis, the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade, smuggled from Africa on the final slave ship to arrive in the United States. Astonishingly, this account of their conversations has never before been published. With a 150,000-copy first printing.

Reviewed by Staff , Dec 01, 2017

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