{"product_id":"9780008368036","title":"Barracoon : The Story of the Last Slave by Alice Walker","description":"Abducted from Africa, sold in America.                                               \"A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life\"- Daily Telegraph                    A 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.                         The true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.                       In August 1931, famed anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston travelled to Alabama to visit ninety-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a former slave.             Over three months, Cudjo shared heart-rending memories of his childhood in Africa; the horrors of being captured - fifty years after slavery was outlawed - and held in the Ouidah barracoons for selection by American slavers; the harrowing ordeal of the Middle Passage aboard the Clotilda with over one hundred other souls; and the years he spent in slavery.             Barracoon brings to life Cudjo's singular voice in an invaluable contribution to history and culture, a work as poignant as it is profound.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56221522526581,"sku":"9780008368036","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008368036.jpg?v=1762195850","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780008368036","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}