Barracoon - The Story of the Last Slave

Abducted from Africa, sold in America. ''A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life''- Daily Telegraph A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God , with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. The true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade. In August 1931, famed anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston travelled to Alabama to visit ninety-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a former slave. Over three months, Cudjo shared heart-rending memories of his childhood in Africa; the horrors of being captured - fifty years after slavery was outlawed - and held in the Ouidah barracoons for selection by American slavers; the harrowing ordeal of the Middle Passage aboard the Clotilda with over one hundred other souls; and the years he spent in slavery. Barracoon brings to life Cudjo''s singular voice in an invaluable contribution to history and culture, a work as poignant as it is profound.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Zora Neale Hurston, Hurston Zora Neale
• Collaboration: Alice Walker (Préface), Walker Alice (Préface)
• Edition: Harlequin (UK)
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780008368036
• ISBN: 978-0-00-836803-6
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American & Black, HISTORY / African American & Black