<p>What&#8217;s up y&#8217;all?</p>
<p>I hope you&#8217;re doing well and drinking an adequate amount of water. Remember in the last book review I was telling you how I&#8217;d been slacking on my reading list for the year? Well, the good news is I&#8217;m almost on a roll now because I just finished a new book. This one is by Zora Neale Hurston and it&#8217;s titled, <em>&#8216;Barracoon: The Story of the last &#8220;Black Cargo&#8221;&#8216;.</em></p>
<p>As you can imagine from the title, the book details the story of the last slave that&#8217;d survived the Middle Passage. His name was Kossula Oluale (or Cudjo Lewis). Zora would spend 2 months with him to document his story and the story of so many others just like him who did not live long enough to tell it.</p>
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<p>This is not much of a review as it is a plea from me to you, hoping that you will take the time out to read it yourself. We&#8217;ve seen so many movies, television shows, and read so many books that weren&#8217;t first-hand perspectives on one of the darkest times in U.S. history. I had to put the book down for a day because I was so heart broken at the life he (and so many more like him) had to live.</p>
<p>The book will give you a renewed appreciation for our ancestors and how far we&#8217;ve come but also a wakeup call as to how far we have to go.</p>
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<p>You can purchase your copy here: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Barracoon-Story-Last-Black-Cargo/dp/0062748203">https://www.amazon.com/Barracoon-Story-Last-Black-Cargo/dp/0062748203</a></p>
<p>See you in the next blog but in the meantime I&#8217;ll be somewhere reading.</p>
<p><em><strong>From Me to You, Love.</strong></em></p>
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Book Review: Barracoon (The Story of the Last Black Cargo)
"Barracoon" by Zora Neale Hurston
