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Oral history

Barracoon

By Zora Neale Hurston

About this book

In Alabama, Zora Neale Hurston interviews Cudjo Lewis, also known as Kossola, about the life that brought him to Africatown. He recalls his childhood in West Africa, his capture and forced Atlantic crossing on the Clotilda, and the community he helped build after emancipation. The interviews keep his own manner of telling central to the book.

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Edition and subjects

ISBN-13
9780062748201
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition date
2018
First published
2018
African American Literary Legends Biographies & Untold Stories Black History & Heritage Atlantic slave trade Slavery Reconstruction Adults

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