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A book that will be coming out soon centers around this man, Cudjo Lewis and the interview he gave to Anthropologist...

A book that will be coming out soon centers around this man, Cudjo Lewis and the interview he gave to Anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston in 1930. The manuscript of which was just recently discovered, it had never been published. Here history.com gives us a quick look into this interesting and heartbreaking story.
http://www.history.com/news/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-slave-clotilda-survivor?cmpid=Social_Google_SiteShare
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  1. Evelon BurleyMay 8, 2018 at 10:34 PM

    I think that will be very interesting.

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  2. Ann KennedyMay 9, 2018 at 5:07 AM

    This is no doubt an important story to be told, although how very sad and tragic. I'm glad that Hurston held to her convictions about how she would report the interview in accurate linguistic form.

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  3. Jeff DiverMay 9, 2018 at 7:24 AM

    The book is
    Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo Deckle Edge, published May 8, 2018 by Zora Neale Hurston (Author), Deborah G. Plant (Introduction), Alice Walker (Foreword)

    Amazon also lists another title that may be of interest along the same lines:

    Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America 1st Edition
    by Sylviane A. Diouf (2009)

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  4. Roma ArellanoMay 9, 2018 at 8:20 AM

    Wow, that will be an interesting and wrenching read for sure.

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  5. Margaret Siemers (Siemers Rafter Room)May 9, 2018 at 7:53 PM

    Thank you Evelon Burley Ann Kennedy Jeff Diver and Roma Arellano for your comments, and Jeff you know I love it when folks can add more information into the mix, so many thanks on that.

    It isn't a pretty side of our Countries past to look at, but it isn't something to put aside either. Just like the Holocaust during WWII, it happened and if we ignore it and try to believe it didn't happen we are as bad as the people that did it.

    While it is true that we here today had nothing to do with what our ancestors may have participated in 100 years ago, it is also true that; "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it".

    Just my feelings on this one folks, I deeply felt for this man and others like him.

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