In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. “Zora Neale Hurston’s genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece.”-Alice WalkerĪ 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, brilliantly 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-abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. “One of the greatest writers of our time.”-Toni Morrison “A profound impact on Hurston’s literary legacy.”- New York Times The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Books 2018.Atlanta Journal Constitution, Best Southern Books 2018.The Atlantic’s Books Briefing: History, Reconsidered.NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018.New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018.TIME Magazine ’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018.
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