03596cam a2200337 4500 578470540 TxAuBib 20220713120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062748232 0062748238 f22dfb2a-348d-419b-9b4e-d5a23efc91fc OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3390727 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hurston, Zora Neale. Barracoon [Libby] : The Story of the Last "Black Cargo. HarperAudio, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 105MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 105MB. History. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 brilliantly illuminates 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.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Audie Award Nominee. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-13 20:00:03. Miles, Robin. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/3390727-Barracoon.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f22dfb2a-348d-419b-9b4e-d5a23efc91fc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/3390727-Barracoon.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f22dfb2a-348d-419b-9b4e-d5a23efc91fc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)