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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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Start date
September 5, 2018
Finish date
September 28, 2018

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Deanna M
Sep 25, 2018 rated it really liked it
so far so good.
Rebecca
Read Harder 2019: Book by a Woman/AOC that Won a Literary Award in 2018

We read this for our Conversations on Race Sunday School Class, and it also fits this category for Read Harder 2019. I started reading with the physical copy, switched the the audiobook to better grasp the cadence of Kossola/Cudjo's speech (excellently read by Robin Miles), and then finished with the hard copy. When I was listening to the audiobook, I had to keep reminding myself this was nonfiction. It's deeply troubling yet
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Shelves: to-read-2019
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