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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. 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...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
127 pages : photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Hundreds of iron slave shackles -- many custom-made for the tiny wrists of children -- lay buried for centuries on the ocean floor. Their discovery in 1972 begins a four-year odyssey across three continents to uncover the secrets of a sunken slave ship, the bitter history it represents, and a rich legacy for one man, a people, and a nation."
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Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. 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...
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