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Paperback Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo Book

ISBN: 0062748211

ISBN13: 9780062748218

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

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One of the New York Times' Most Memorable Literary Moments of the Last 25 Years - New York Times Bestseller - TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 - Economist 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...

Customer Reviews

2 ratings

Couldn't put it down!

Honestly, if I didn't have kids, I could've finished it in one sitting it was that great. It's such a great read!

Hurston the Folklorist/Anthropologist

I really like the "speakerly" prose for which Hurston is well known + the blend of genres in this book, offering the accounts of Kossola's trajectory into and out of slavery as supplemented by research by other scholars. The parables included after the main chapters are priceless.

Barracoon Mentions in Our Blog

Barracoon in A Juneteenth Reading List
A Juneteenth Reading List
Published by Ashly Moore Sheldon • June 10, 2022

June 19 marks the day in 1865 when Union Troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, the last stop on their tour to liberate enslaved persons in the US—a day of hope. But the history, both before and after this day, has been fraught. Here we present a reading list for a range of ages shedding light on this complex subject.

Barracoon in The Essential Zora Neale Hurston
The Essential Zora Neale Hurston
Published by Ashly Moore Sheldon • January 08, 2020

This week we celebrate the birthday of writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. Largely unappreciated in her lifetime, the trailblazing author's writings saw a resurgence after Alice Walker's 1975 essay called her "the patron saint of black women writers." Here we review five of her essential titles.

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