Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

Zora Neale Hurston

256 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 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 the only person alive to tell the story of this ...

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emotional 62%
reflective 60%
sad 53%
challenging 39%
dark 25%
inspiring 15%
tense 5%
hopeful 3%
adventurous 2%
funny 1%

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