Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" / Zora Neale Hurston ; edited and with an introduction by Deborah G. Plant.
Record details
- ISBN: 1538519291
- ISBN: 9781538519295
- ISBN: 9781538519288
- ISBN: 1538519283
- ISBN: 9781538519295
- ISBN: 1538519291
- Physical Description: 3 audio discs (3 3/4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : HarperCollins, [2018]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Compact discs. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Robin Miles. |
Summary, etc.: | The true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade, illegally smuggled from Africa on the last "black cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Lewis, Cudjo. Clotilda (Ship) Enslaved persons. Slaves > Alabama > History > 19th century > Biography. West Africans > Alabama > History > 19th century. West Africans > Alabama > Biography. Slaves > Alabama > Biography. Slave trade > Alabama > Mobile > History > 19th century. Slavery > Alabama > History > 19th century. Mobile (Ala.) > History > 19th century. Slave ships > Alabama. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
Available copies
- 8 of 8 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Silas Bronson Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | A-BKCD 306.362 HUR (Text) | 34005126014710 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Author Notes
Barracoon : The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1901 in Eatonville, Fla. She left home at the age of 17, finished high school in Baltimore, and went on to study at Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University before becoming one of the most prolific writers in the Harlem Renaissance. Her works included novels, essays, plays, and studies in folklore and anthropology. Her most productive years were the 1930s and early 1940s. It was during those years that she wrote her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road, worked with the Federal Writers Project in Florida, received a Guggenheim fellowship, and wrote four novels. She is most remembered for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. In 2018, her previously unpublished work, Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, was published. She died penniless and in obscurity in 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1973, her grave was rediscovered and marked and her novels and autobiography have since been reprinted. (Bowker Author Biography)