Barracoon

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3

5

Kendi, Ibram X.
Lee-Johnson, Jazzmen

Hurston, Zora Neale

Amistad (Firm)publisher
HarperCollins (Firm)
Kendi, Ibram X.adapter.|Adapter
Lee-Johnson, Jazzmenillustrator.|Illustrator

Hurston, Zora Neale

Cary Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Middle Creek Community
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Southgate Community
Zebulon Community

Childrens Non-Fiction

Cary Regional - Childrens Non-Fiction
Eva H. Perry Regional - Childrens Non-Fiction
Middlecreek Community - Childrens Non-Fiction
Morrisville Community - Childrens Non-Fiction
North Regional - Childrens Non-Fiction
Northeast Regional - Childrens Non-Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Childrens Non-Fiction
Southeast Regional - Childrens Non-Fiction
Southgate Community - Childrens Non-Fiction
Zebulon Community - Childrens Non-Fiction

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 to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo's past--memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War. Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo's unique vernacular, and written from Hurston's perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.--Publisher's website.

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9780063098336

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Non Fiction

Non Fiction

J306.3 HURST

Wake County Public Libraries

Cary Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Middle Creek Community
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Southgate Community
Zebulon Community

9780063098336

2024

Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

grouped_work

Clotilda (Ship)
Clotilda (Ship) -- Juvenile literature
Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Biography
Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century -- Biography
Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Lewis, Cudjo
Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century
Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
Slave ships -- Alabama
Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 19th century
Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
Slave trade -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century
Slave trade -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
West Africans -- Alabama -- Biography
West Africans -- Alabama -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature

Barracoon

Barracoon / written by Zora Neale Hurston ; adapted by Ibram X. Kendi ; illustrated by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson

Barracoon

Enslaved persons
History
Lewis, Cudjo
Slave ships
Slave trade
Slavery
West Africans