Barracoon The Story of the Last Slave The Story of the Last Black Cargo The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780062748201
  • 31 mei 2018
  • 208 pagina's
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A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God which brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade-illegally smuggled from Africa on the last Black Cargo ship to arrive in the United States. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, to interview ninety-five-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 Clotilde, 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 brilliantly illuminates the tragedy of slavery and 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.

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en
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
31 mei 2018
Aantal pagina's
208
Illustraties
Nee

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Hoofdauteur
Zora Hurston
Hoofdredacteur
Deborah G Plant
Hoofduitgeverij
Amistad Press

Vertaling

Eerste Vertaler
Hans-Ulrich Möhring
Tweede Vertaler
Hans-Ulrich Möhring
Originele titel
Barracoon. The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

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Product breedte
145 mm
Product lengte
215 mm
Studieboek
Ja
Verpakking breedte
146 mm
Verpakking hoogte
25 mm
Verpakking lengte
223 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
321 g

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9780062748201
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