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Originally Posted by Wrang1er
I am on the library waiting list for Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurston.
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.
I heard about it on NPR and I am excited to get it. I haven't read for pleasure (which I sorely miss) since starting school in January. I am hoping I can make time for it.
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There was an excerpt of this book in the April 30-May 13 issue of New York Magazine. It looks will worth the wait
