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Bookmark or Share- Zora Neale Hurston's 'Barracoon' Tells the Story of the Slave Trade's ...Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ Tells the Story of the Slave Trade’s Last Survivor. Published eight decades after it was written, the new book offers a first-hand account of a Middle Passage...
- Barracoon Definition & Meaning - Merriam-WebsterThe meaning of BARRACOON is an enclosure or barracks formerly used for temporary confinement of enslaved people or convicts —often used in plural.
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" - WikipediaMay 8, 2018. Pages. 208. ISBN. 9780062748201. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" is a non-fiction work by Zora Neale Hurston. It is based on her interviews in 1927 with Oluale Kossola (also known as Cudjoe Lewis) who was presumed to be the last survivor of the Middle Passage.
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" - GoodreadsBarracoon is an interview record of the memories of Cudjo Lewis who is believed to be the last living person captured in Africa and brought to America on a slave ship. Lewis was captured in 1859 by Dahomey warriors, sold to American slavers, and illegally shipped to Mobile, Alabama (importing slaves to the USA had been outlawed in 1809).
- 'Barracoon': A first-person account of the transatlantic slave trade‘Barracoon’: The story of the last slave cargo, in the words of a survivor. Lottie Joiner. Special to USA TODAY. 0:00. 1:30. At age 19, Oluale Kossola was preparing for marriage in his native...
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