Alice Walker - Barracoon - The Story of the Last Slave

About the Author About the Author Booklist Title Page Copyright Foreword: Those Who Love Us Never Leave Us Alone with Our Grief: Reading Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Alice Walker Introduction Editor’s Note BARRACOON Dedication PREFACE INTRODUCTION I II: THE KING ARRIVES III IV V VI: BARRACOON VII: SLAVERY VIII: FREEDOM IX: MARRIAGE X: KOSSULA LEARNS ABOUT LAW XI XII: ALONE APPENDIX Takkoi or Attako—Children’s Game Stories Kossula Told Me The Monkey and the Camel Story of de Jonah Now Disa Abraham Fadda de Faitful The Lion Woman Afterword and Additional Materials Edited by Deborah G. Plant Afterword Acknowledgements Founders and Original Residents of Africatown Glossary Notes Bibliography About the Editor About the Publisher

ZORA NEALE HURSTONwas a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. An author of four novels ( Jonah’s Gourd Vine , 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God , 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountain , 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee , 1948); two books of folklore ( Mules and Men , 1935, and Tell My Horse , 1938); an autobiography ( Dust Tracks on a Road , 1942); and more than fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University, and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1927. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, Florida, in 1960. In 1973, Alice Walker had a headstone placed at her grave site with this epitaph: ZORA NEALE HURSTON: “A GENIUS OF THE SOUTH.”

ALSO BY ZORA NEALE HURSTON Contents Cover About the Author Booklist Title Page Copyright Foreword: Those Who Love Us Never Leave Us Alone with Our Grief: Reading Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Alice Walker Introduction Editor’s Note BARRACOON Dedication PREFACE INTRODUCTION I II: THE KING ARRIVES III IV V VI: BARRACOON VII: SLAVERY VIII: FREEDOM IX: MARRIAGE X: KOSSULA LEARNS ABOUT LAW XI XII: ALONE APPENDIX Takkoi or Attako—Children’s Game Stories Kossula Told Me The Monkey and the Camel Story of de Jonah Now Disa Abraham Fadda de Faitful The Lion Woman Afterword and Additional Materials Edited by Deborah G. Plant Afterword Acknowledgements Founders and Original Residents of Africatown Glossary Notes Bibliography About the Editor About the Publisher

Jonah’s Gourd Vine

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Moses, Man of the Mountain

Seraph on the Suwanee

Mules and Men

Tell My Horse

Dust Tracks on a Road

Copyright Contents Cover About the Author Booklist Title Page Copyright Foreword: Those Who Love Us Never Leave Us Alone with Our Grief: Reading Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Alice Walker Introduction Editor’s Note BARRACOON Dedication PREFACE INTRODUCTION I II: THE KING ARRIVES III IV V VI: BARRACOON VII: SLAVERY VIII: FREEDOM IX: MARRIAGE X: KOSSULA LEARNS ABOUT LAW XI XII: ALONE APPENDIX Takkoi or Attako—Children’s Game Stories Kossula Told Me The Monkey and the Camel Story of de Jonah Now Disa Abraham Fadda de Faitful The Lion Woman Afterword and Additional Materials Edited by Deborah G. Plant Afterword Acknowledgements Founders and Original Residents of Africatown Glossary Notes Bibliography About the Editor About the Publisher

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But the inescapable fact that stuck in my craw, was: my people had sold me and the white people had bought me. . . . It impressed upon me the universal nature of greed and glory.

—Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

Barracoon: The Spanish word barracoon translates as “barracks” and is derived from barraca , which means “hut.” The term “barracoon” describes the structures used to detain Africans who would be sold and exported to Europe or the Americas. These structures, sometimes also referred to as factories, stockades, corrals, and holding pens, were built near the coast. They could be as insubstantial as a “slave shed” or as fortified as a “slave house” or “slave castle,” wherein Africans were forced into the cells of dungeons beneath the upper quarters of European administrators. Africans held in these structures had been kidnapped, captured in local wars and raids, or were trekked in from the hinterlands or interior regions across the continent. Many died in the barracoons as a consequence of their physical condition upon arrival at the coast or the length of time it took for the arrival of a ship. Some died while waiting for a ship to fill, which could take three to six months. This phase of the traffic was called the “coasting” period. During the years of suppression of the traffic, captives could be confined for several months.

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About the Author About the Author About the Author Booklist Title Page Copyright Foreword: Those Who Love Us Never Leave Us Alone with Our Grief: Reading Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Alice Walker Introduction Editor’s Note BARRACOON Dedication PREFACE INTRODUCTION I II: THE KING ARRIVES III IV V VI: BARRACOON VII: SLAVERY VIII: FREEDOM IX: MARRIAGE X: KOSSULA LEARNS ABOUT LAW XI XII: ALONE APPENDIX Takkoi or Attako—Children’s Game Stories Kossula Told Me The Monkey and the Camel Story of de Jonah Now Disa Abraham Fadda de Faitful The Lion Woman Afterword and Additional Materials Edited by Deborah G. Plant Afterword Acknowledgements Founders and Original Residents of Africatown Glossary Notes Bibliography About the Editor About the Publisher ZORA NEALE HURSTON was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. An author of four novels ( Jonah’s Gourd Vine , 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God , 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountain , 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee , 1948); two books of folklore ( Mules and Men , 1935, and Tell My Horse , 1938); an autobiography ( Dust Tracks on a Road , 1942); and more than fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University, and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1927. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, Florida, in 1960. In 1973, Alice Walker had a headstone placed at her grave site with this epitaph: ZORA NEALE HURSTON: “A GENIUS OF THE SOUTH.”