Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Read Excerpts From Zora Neale Hurston's Interviews With The Last Slave To Survive The Middle Passage

Hurston trained as a cultural anthropologist, and Barracoon, which languished in her archives for decades and is only now being published, is the result of months of interviews with Cudjo Lewis, who was kidnapped in what is now Benin and brought to Alabama in 1860.



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