A review by jess_mango
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

4.0

Hurston interviewed one of the last living former slaves from the last "black cargo" ship to arrive in the US. Cudjo Lewis was in his 80s when Hurston interviewed him in the late 1920s. Barracoon is Cudjo's biography. He recalls life in Africa, his capture, the sea voyage, his time as a slave, his freedom...

Powerful. It is important that we have these accounts of the actual experiences of slaves.