Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo' Free Audiobook Download by Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Cudjo Lewis, "The Last Black Cargo," in her 1938 book, Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo'. Cudjo was born in slavery and recounts his experiences with the white people who owned him. He also reflects on how he was treated by black people as well.

One afternoon in the summer of 1923, a twenty-two year old Zora Neale Hurston was waiting for a ride on the docks outside Charleston, South Carolina. She had been living there for several years and was working as a reporter for the Atlanta Daily World. There was a group of men waiting with her and their conversation became animated when one of them noticed that she was listening to them. They were talking about black women in general and one man said 'they don't like it when we tackle them.' The story goes that he then reached out to touch her but she quickly moved away from him, saying 'no you'll wake up all my sweeties, you'll have to excuse me.' When he persisted in trying to touch her,

Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo', tells the story of Cudjo Lewis and his life in the 1920s. When he was rounded up in Nassau, Bahamas with other African Americans to work as slaves on a massive sugar plantation, Lewis refused to accept slavery as an institution and resisted through any way possible.

Zora Neale Hurston's novel, "Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo'," was first published on November 11th, 1937. In this novel, Zora Neale Hurston records the story of Cudjo Lewis, an African-American slave who survived a modern-day slave trade to become the last living "Black Cargo" to be sold into slavery in America.

Zora Neale Hurston is a renowned author of modern African-American literature. She was born in Alabama in 1891 and published her novel Barracoon in 1939. Maxine Hong Kingston has been credited for popularizing the term "the last 'black cargo'".

In January 1859, Zora Neale Hurston's short story Barracoon was published. This story tells the story of Cudjo Lewis and his children who are captured and brought to America as 'black cargo'. They were brought to America in chains, but they soon learn that they have some advantages over slaves. They receive food at every meal, live on plantations instead of the fields, and have access to spiritual freedom.