{"product_id":"barracoon-zora-neale-hurston-9780008368036","title":"Barracoon","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbducted from Africa, sold in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life\"- Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn August 1931, famed anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston travelled to Alabama to visit ninety-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a former slave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBarracoon brings to life Cudjo's singular voice in an invaluable contribution to history and culture, a work as poignant as it is profound.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zora Neale Hurston","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47060566147315,"sku":"9780008368036","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780008368036.jpg?v=1749500513","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/barracoon-zora-neale-hurston-9780008368036","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}