Sixty years after slavery was abolished, author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston found the last surviving prisoner of the last slave ship that brought Africans to the United States, History.com reveals. The Their Eyes Were Watching God author conducted the interviews with Cudjoe Lewis, who was taken from the area in Africa that is now known as Benin when he was 19-years old. Hurston planned to release the book in the early 1930’s but was shot down by publishers after she refused to change Lewis’ dialect in the manuscript. The interviews are now being released in a new book called Barracoon: The Story […]
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