![]() ![]() It completely reinforces for me the fact that Zora Neale Hurston was both a cultural anthropologist and a truly gifted, and compassionate storyteller, who sat in the sometimes painful silence with Kossola and the depth and breadth of memory as a slave. ![]() Zora Neale Hurston gives Kossola control of his narrative- a gift of freedom and humanity. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Life on Mars and Wade in the Water "Zora Neale Hurston's genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece."Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple "Barracoon is a powerful, breathtakingly beautiful, and at times, heart wrenching, account of one man's story, eloquently told in his own language. ![]() Barracoon is a testament to the enormous losses millions of men, women and children endured in both slavery and freedom-a story of urgent relevance to every American, everywhere."Tracy K. "That Zora Neale Hurston should find and befriend Cudjo Lewis, the last living man with firsthand memory of capture in Africa and captivity in Alabama, is nothing shy of a miracle. ![]()
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