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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
3 reviews
snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Murder, and War
fkshg8465's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Upgrading to a five. The book itself wasn’t especially compelling, but I could feel it changing me on some celular level to read it. I don’t know if that makes sense to anyone else.
The depth of his loneliness almost broke me, but it took me some time to get there. He’s so matter of fact in his telling, but then again, I wish I could’ve heard his actual voice. That would’ve made a huge difference in how I imbibed this book.
My only fear from this experience is that there will be others out there who read it and walk away thinking and saying, pointing to his words, that not all slave masters were horrible people. That is a lie I’d hate to see perpetuated, because no matter how kind they might’ve been, they still only had slaves because they lacked respect for the dignity of these African lives and refused them any agency.
The depth of his loneliness almost broke me, but it took me some time to get there. He’s so matter of fact in his telling, but then again, I wish I could’ve heard his actual voice. That would’ve made a huge difference in how I imbibed this book.
My only fear from this experience is that there will be others out there who read it and walk away thinking and saying, pointing to his words, that not all slave masters were horrible people. That is a lie I’d hate to see perpetuated, because no matter how kind they might’ve been, they still only had slaves because they lacked respect for the dignity of these African lives and refused them any agency.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Colonisation
mktaylor15's review
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.0
A very important anthropological piece that not only gives insight into the last ex-enslaved person from the last slave ship but also in to the beginnings of Zora Neale Hurston's career
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Racism, Slavery, and Violence
Minor: Police brutality and Murder