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

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

Zora Neale Hurston

208 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history race emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive...

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informative 75%
emotional 60%
reflective 59%
sad 52%
challenging 41%
dark 26%
inspiring 13%
tense 5%
adventurous 2%
hopeful 2%

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slow 28%
fast 26%

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