It is nearly a century since Zora Neale Hurston wrote Barracoon, an ethnography of Cudjo Lewis, the Alabama man believed to be the last living African enslaved in the United States. On May 8 Lewis’ story will become widely available to the public for the first time. To mark this historic occasion, and to commemorate the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston – a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, African-American folklorist and ethnographer, and one of the most significant women writers of the twentieth century – USSO is seeking articles on any aspect of Hurston’s life, her art, her anthropology. For more information, get in touch with us here.
Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant (ed.), Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", (Harper Collins, 2018), is available from May 8.
