Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo -- Zora Neale Hurston

<p><strong><em>One of the New York Times' Most Memorable Literary Moments of the Last 25 Years! </em> - <em>New York Times</em> Bestseller - <em>TIME M</em>agazine<em>'s</em> Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 - <em>Economist </em>Book of the Year - SELF.com's Best Books of 2018 - Audible's Best of the Year - BookRiot's Best Audio Books of 2018 - The Atlantic's Books Briefing: History, Reconsidered - Atlanta Journal Constitution, Best Southern Books 2018 - The Christian Science Monitor's Best Books 2018 - </strong></p><p><strong>"A profound impact on Hurston's literary legacy."--<em>New York Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>"One of the greatest writers of our time."--Toni Morrison</strong></p><p><strong>"Zora Neale Hurston's genius has once again produced a <em>Maestrapiece</em>."--Alice Walker</strong></p><p><strong>A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God, </em>with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade--abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States.</strong></p><p>In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, w