Abducted from Africa, sold in America.A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life Daily TelegraphA major literary event a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prizewinning author Alice Walker.The true story of one of the lastknown survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.In August 1931, famed anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston travelled to Alabama to visit ninetyyearold Cudjo Lewis, a former slave.Over three months, Cudjo shared heartrending 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 Cudjos singular voice in an invaluable contribution to history and culture, a work as poignant as it is profound.

Binding: Paperback;208 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: BTP; Weight: 348 g; Dimensions: 129 x 199 x 17

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