{"product_id":"barracoon-the-story-of-the-last-slave-1","title":"Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003e\n              \u003cem\u003eAbducted from Africa, sold in America.\u003c\/em\u003e\n            \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cem\u003e\"A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life\"- \u003cstrong\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eA major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic \u003cem\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/em\u003e, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003eThe true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eIn August 1931, famed anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston travelled to Alabama to visit ninety-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a former slave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eOver three months, Cudjo shared heart-rending memories of his childhood in Africa; the horrors of being captured - fifty years after slavery was outlawed - and held in the Ouidah barracoons for selection by American slavers; the harrowing ordeal of the Middle Passage aboard the Clotilda with over one hundred other souls; and the years he spent in slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eBarracoon brings to life Cudjo's singular voice in an invaluable contribution to history and culture, a work as poignant as it is profound.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harpercollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44963000910002,"sku":"9780008368036","price":300.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/424071_6716ffc7545331.74725367_9780008368036.jpg?v=1733759619","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/barracoon-the-story-of-the-last-slave-1","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}