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- The Best Books On Black HistoryReading list
- Ayesha Harruna AttahInterview
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston. I bought it because I’m deep in research about pre-colonial West Africa, and also because I have written about internal slavery in Africa. Cudjoe Lewis, this book’s protagonist, experienced indigenous slavery before smuggled illegally into Alabama…
- James ConnollyInterview
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston. I had read a few articles about Zora Neale Hurston’s unwavering argument that the story be told in the dialect of the storyteller. The book is compelling from the first paragraph and is a devastating story of a man who outlived his family and dealt…
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