{"product_id":"9780008368036","title":"Barracoon : The Story of the Last Slave","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Hurston, Zora Neale, Walker, Alice \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 09\/01\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 208 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008368036,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbducted from Africa, sold in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  “A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life”- Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  In August 1931, famed anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston travelled to Alabama to visit ninety-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a former slave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Over three months, Cudjo shared heart-rending 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Barracoon brings to life Cudjo’s singular voice in an invaluable contribution to history and culture, a work as poignant as it is profound.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34762499751980,"sku":"9780008368036","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008368036.jpg?v=1759665794","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008368036","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}