BARRACOON

Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", edited by Deborah G. Plant, foreword by Alice Walker (New York: Amistad, 2018) (From the "Foreword": " Reading Barracoon, one understands immediately the problem many black people, years ago, especially black intellectuals and political leaders, had with it. It resolutely records the atrocities African peoples inflicted on each other, long before shackled Africans, traumatized, ill, disoriented starved, arrived in ships as 'black cargo' in the hellish West." Id. at x.).