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Clotilda (Ship) Lewis, Cudjo Prisonniers noirs américains Slave trade Africa History 19th century Slave trade United States History 19th century Slavery Alabama History 19th century Slaves United States Biography West Africans United States Biography États-Unis Politique et gouvernement États-Unis Relations racialesPlant, Deborah G.
Summary: A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon. Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like justice, freedom and equality are meaningless when there is no corresponding practical application of the ideals they represent. Physical, bodily liberty is fundamental to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 326.0973 PLAHurston, Zora Neale
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018