TY - BOOK AU - Hurston, Zora Neale. TI - Barracoon: the story of the last slave SN - 9780008297664 U1 - 306.36/2092HUR PY - 2018/// CY - Richmond PB - MIRA KW - Lewis, Cudjo -- Interviews; Slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century N1 - Collection subset: Management and Business Studies N2 - 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 trade was outlawed in the United States ER -