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Acclaimed author and Great Floridian Zora Neale Hurston is best known for her fiction works, but she was also a skilled anthropologist who was one of the first in her field to record and study African-American folklore. She documented the accounts of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade in 1931.
Nearly a century after its writing, HarperCollins published her book about the life of Cudjo Lewis, “Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,”” earlier this month after the manuscript spent decades in the Howard University archives.
Read an excerpt that appeared in New York magazine.
– Lauren Bankert, The Tallahassee 100