Title: Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
By Zora Neale Hurston
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” is a non-fiction biography of Cudjo Lewis, who, in 1927, was the last living survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the United States, or “Middle Passage.” Based on interviews with Lewis conducted by the influential author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, the book was finally published in 2018, nearly sixty years after Hurston’s death.