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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale-Hurston | Conversation Starters
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale-Hurston | Conversation Starters
Zora Neale Hurston, the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, tells another compelling story of the horror and injustices of slavery. Hurston opens our eyes to the story of Cudjo in Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo. Cudjo is one of the men aboard the last Black Cargo ship to arrive in the United States. He is one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.
Huffington Post praises Zora Neale Hurston’s singular vision that led Barracoon to print. They added that her writing “continue to put us at war with ourselves.” The Color Purple Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker praises Zora Neale Hurston’s genius and calls Barracoon “a Maestrapiece.”
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than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
and the characters and its world still live on.
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
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and invite us into the world that lives on.
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Zora Neale Hurston, the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, tells another compelling story of the horror and injustices of slavery. Hurston opens our eyes to the story of Cudjo in Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo. Cudjo is one of the men aboard the last Black Cargo ship to arrive in the United States. He is one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.
Huffington Post praises Zora Neale Hurston’s singular vision that led Barracoon to print. They added that her writing “continue to put us at war with ourselves.” The Color Purple Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker praises Zora Neale Hurston’s genius and calls Barracoon “a Maestrapiece.”
A Brief Look Inside:
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
and the characters and its world still live on.
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
bring us beneath the surface of the page
and invite us into the world that lives on.
These questions can be used to..
Create Hours of Conversation:
• Foster a deeper understanding of the book
• Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups
• Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately
• Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before
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