Publicado por Amistad / HarperCollins, New York, 2018
ISBN 10: 0062748203 ISBN 13: 9780062748201
Librería: Capricorn Books, Oakville, ON, Canada
Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. Ninth Printing. 171 pp, 8 1/2" H. "In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Plateau, Alabama, to visit eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a survivor of the 'Clotilda', the last slaver known to have made the transatlantic journey. Illegally brought to the United States, Cudjo was enslaved fifty years after the slave trade was outlawed. At the time, Cudjo was the only person alive who could recount this integral part of the nation's history. As a cultural anthropologist, Hurston was eager to hear about these experiences firsthand. But the reticent elder didn't always speak when she came to visit. Sometimes he would tend his garden, repair his fence, or appear lost in his thoughts. Hurston persisted, though, and during an intense three-month period, she and Cudjo communed over her gifts of peaches and watermelon, and gradually Cudjo, a poetic storyteller, began to share heartrending memories of his childhood in Africa; the attack by female warriors who slaughtered his townspeople; the horrors of being captured and held in the barracoons of Ouidah for selection by American traders; the harrowing ordeal of the Middle Passage aboard the 'Clotilda' as 'cargo' with more than one hundred other souls; the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War; and finally his role in the founding of Africatown. 'Barracoon' employs Hurston's skills as both an anthropologist and a writer, and brings to life Cudjo's singular voice, in his vernacular, in a poignant, powerful tribute to the disremembered and the unaccounted." Small bump at the bottom of the spine. Dust jacket has two small light stains and some light wrinkling on the front hinge, a crease down the middle of the spine. Not Signed.
Publicado por Amistad 0, 2020
ISBN 10: 0062748211 ISBN 13: 9780062748218
Librería: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Trade Paperback. Condición: New. No Jacket. New Book.
Publicado por New York, Amistad, 2020
Librería: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA, Princeton, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Hardcover. Condición: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 171 pp. Appendix, Afterword, Glossary, Notes and Bibliography.