From the Bookshelf of Diversity in All Forms!…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
showing 1 of 1 topics
view all »
Other topics mentioning this book
Black History Month (February 2019)
By Mariah Roze · 30 posts · 108 views
By Mariah Roze · 30 posts · 108 views
last updated Jan 16, 2019 05:54PM
What Members Thought
Though the United States passed the 'Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in 1807', boats continued to deliver abducted Africans to America for more than 50 years. The last shipment of slaves arrived in Alabama on the ship 'Clotilda' in 1860, on the eve of the Civil War.
One of the African men on the Clotilda was Oluale Kossula, also known as Cudjo Lewis, who survived five years of slavery, became a free man, and helped found the black enclave of 'Africatown' (or 'Plateau') near Mobile, Alabama. ...more
Zora Neale Hurston interviews the last man that was essentially sold by his country to be a slave in the U.S. "Cudjo's" story is full of loss and turmoil. The tactics that Hurston used to get Cudjo to tell his story was what made this so appealing to me. This is a piece of history that is shameful, yet it happened and to hear Cudjo tell his story puts a real voice and perspective to these unspeakable acts.
...more
Jul 03, 2019
Donna
rated it
it was amazing
Shelves:
biographical,
us-history,
ebooks,
nonfiction,
race-class,
audiobooks,
african-diaspora,
history
The golden voice of Robin Miles narrated the audiobook, and she was superb. Ms. Miles handled the emotional weight and pathos of the story with pitch perfect precision, and made the linguistic patois understandable and musical.
The story itself should be read in middle/junior high schools in the U.S. so young people may begin to appreciate the devastation that the Atlantic Slave Trade wrought, and continued to wreak through Reconstruction and Jim Crow, redlining, zoning, racial covenants, etc., a ...more
The story itself should be read in middle/junior high schools in the U.S. so young people may begin to appreciate the devastation that the Atlantic Slave Trade wrought, and continued to wreak through Reconstruction and Jim Crow, redlining, zoning, racial covenants, etc., a ...more
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” is immensely important because it presents a first-hand narrative of the last-known survivor of the transatlantic shipment of Africans to the Americas and because it gifts the reading world with a lost work of Zora Neale Hurston's. Barracoon is an important work as any historical record, particularly one that lacked an abundance of first-hand narratives, should be. But Barracoon is just that: a historical record. Sure, it is written in the dialect,
...more
Sep 08, 2018
Kay Dee (what is your storygraph name? mine is in my bio. join me!) Meadows
rated it
liked it
·
review of another edition
i enjoyed Cudjo's story and his tales in the appendix.
i did not enjoy the very long introduction which repeated itself. i like the parts of the introduction that explained why Cudjo and his fellow Africans from his nation were considered the last "black cargo." that was useful. the whole back story of how they got there and the ship owners-useful. i also didn't mind the background of what Zora Neale Hurston was doing at the time just before interviewing Cudjo and all that led up to those intervi ...more
i did not enjoy the very long introduction which repeated itself. i like the parts of the introduction that explained why Cudjo and his fellow Africans from his nation were considered the last "black cargo." that was useful. the whole back story of how they got there and the ship owners-useful. i also didn't mind the background of what Zora Neale Hurston was doing at the time just before interviewing Cudjo and all that led up to those intervi ...more
This is a compilation of content regarding the written accounts of Zora visiting Cudjo and his recounting of the time in Africa, some of the traditions he experienced there, the events that led to his capture and passage to the U.S., the treatment he received there by other Africans and slave owners, and the tragic lives of his family. Hurston captured his retelling in the dialect, though the entire recounting is questioned. For me, I found it enlightening and worth reading, though not so much a
...more
Dec 09, 2016
Rachel Mcconnell
marked it as to-read
Jan 10, 2018
ColumbusReads
marked it as to-read
Mar 11, 2018
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
marked it as to-read
Apr 08, 2018
Gina Marie ~books are my drug of choice~
marked it as to-read
May 28, 2018
Kim Baxter
marked it as to-read
Sep 08, 2018
Aimee
marked it as to-read
Dec 03, 2018
Louis Muñoz
marked it as to-read
Dec 14, 2018
Robin Brown Clune
marked it as to-read
Dec 18, 2018
Ana
marked it as to-read
Jan 12, 2020
Janice
marked it as to-read
