{"product_id":"books-barracoon-by-zora-neale-hurston","title":"Barracoon","description":"Abducted from Africa, sold in America.                                                  “A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life”- Daily Telegraph                        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.                          The true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.                        In August 1931, famed anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston travelled to Alabama to visit ninety-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a former slave.             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.             Barracoon brings to life Cudjo’s singular voice in an invaluable contribution to history and culture, a work as poignant as it is profound.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673282109713,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780008368036.jpg?v=1781524658","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-barracoon-by-zora-neale-hurston","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}