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| Verlag | HarperCollins UK |
| Auflage | 09.01.2020 |
| Seiten | 208 |
| Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 2,0 cm |
| Gewicht | 220 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780008368036 |
| Bestell-Nr | 00836803EA |
Abducted from Africa, sold in America.
"A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph
A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker.
The true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.
In August 1931, famed anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston travelled to Alabama to visit ninety-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a former slave.
Over three months, Cudjo shared heart-rending memories of his childhood in Africa; the horrors of being captured - fifty years after slavery was outlawed - and held in the Ouidah barracoons for selection by American slavers; the harrowing ordeal of the Middle Passage aboard the Clotilda with over one hundred other souls; and the years he spent in slavery.
Barracoon brings to life Cudjo's singular voice in an invaluable contribution to history and culture, a work as poignant as it is profound.
