Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurston

25 reviews

zoenelson's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Zora Neale Hurston provides us with an account of one of the last slaves brought to the United States through a participant-observer methodology. She provides Cujo's story through his own narrative. 

As readers, we confront uncomfortable truths about U.S. history and are forced to dismantle the falsehoods we've been deceived into believing. In my mind, Cudjo's story puts words and history to the collective trauma of millions of Africans forced into slavery in the U.S.

Besides Cudjo's words, I loved the editor's notes. She provided important context and a wealth of original thought to this story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Trafficking

Moderate: Child death, Death, Racism, Violence, and Grief

hillysreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Racism, and Slavery

og_tomatogirl's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Slavery

Moderate: Child death

sophmcgraw's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Slavery, and Trafficking

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.0

I thought the introduction was really interesting, but I'm not sure why I had a hard time getting into the story. It's very possible that I would like this more at a more focused time in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Trafficking, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Genocide, Gore, Murder, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

kwilson2512's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Racism, Slavery, and Grief

scrubsandbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective

4.0

Zero sugarcoating history, just the way I like it. ZNH's conversation with Kossolo is set in a way that lets him tell his story in all its entirety, dialect and all. The narration for the audiobook felt like I was talking to him directly. It was rough to get through a lot of parts because of the themes but that is the nature of the entire story. Discomfort ought to be expected, and it is important for readers to deal with the discomfort. A definite recommend for anyone looking to pick up an important non-fiction for Black History Month.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Grief

tinyflame4's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Slavery, and Trafficking

Moderate: Violence, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation

Minor: Animal death, Racism, and Kidnapping

mcfarleyems's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

How do you give a rating to a book as important as this one? 

This book broke my heart and took me on an important and informative journey. I learned so much about Kossula’s life, of course, but I also learned to sit in the discomfort of reading the book. I became aware of my own blind spots in history, which contributed to my own biases. Being able to read this book is a gift. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Child death

pinkalpaca's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder