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Barracoon
Zora Neale Hurston, adapted by Ibram X. Kendi
Illustrator: Jazzmen Lee-Johnson
Ages: 9+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Amistad/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06-309833-6
Keywords: Biography/Memoir-Enslavement, Ship Clotilda, Alabama, Reconstruction, West Africa, racism, discrimination
In 1927 anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, one of the last people living who had been brought from Africa and enslaved in the United States. Dramatic black-and-white prints throughout. Young readers edition.