Format:
xxviii, 171 Seiten
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Illustration
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22 cm
Edition:
Paperback edition
ISBN:
9780008297664
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9780062748201
Content:
Abducted from Africa, sold in America. 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. This account illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis, who was abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation’s history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo’s firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States.
Note:
Umschlag: Foreword by Alice Walker
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 169-171
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780008297671
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
USA
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Sklaverei
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Erlebnisbericht
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Interview
Author information:
Plant, Deborah G. 1956-
Author information:
Hurston, Zora Neale 1891-1960
Author information:
Walker, Alice 1944-
