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Barracoon
- The Story of the Last ""Black Cargo""
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 3 h y 50 m
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A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade - abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States.
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage 50 years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States.
In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo's past - memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War.
Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo's unique vernacular, and written from Hurston's perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the 20th-century, Barracoon brilliantly illuminates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, Black and White, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.
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"Capturing the dialect, accent, and intonation of Cudjo Lewis...presents a challenging task for narrator Robin Miles, who must deliver one of the integral aspects of Hurston's work: a reconstruction of Lewis's African and Southern accents. Miles's rendition is well done, with clear, deliberate diction that places appropriate emphasis on Lewis's emotional reactions." (AudioFile)
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Looking back
"I was so excited to learn of this never-before-published work from Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God—one of my all-time favorite books—which comes more than 50 years after her death. Underscoring the importance of this literary event, Barracoon is the story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade, in his own words and own vernacular. From his capture in a raid in Africa to his time as a slave and then as a free man, Hurston’s interviews with Cudjo Lewis in the early 1900s give a unique look at an American history we thought we knew so well."
—Abby W., Audible Editor
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
- Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Aunjanue Ellis
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African-American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s "lost" Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales.
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Great Writer - Great Reader
- De Avid Listener en 09-09-20
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Ruby Dee
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years.
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perfection
- De Mel en 04-06-15
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You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
- De: Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates - introduction, Genevieve West - introduction
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
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You Don’t Know Us Negroes is the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world’s most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Spanning more than three decades and penned during the backdrop of the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, Montgomery bus boycott, desegregation of the military, and school integration, Hurston’s writing articulates the beauty and authenticity of Black life as only she could. Collectively, these essays showcase the roles enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people’s inner lives and culture rather than destroying it.
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Great Cover on Who We Are
- De Kindle Grandma en 02-05-22
De: Zora Neale Hurston, y otros
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Dust Tracks on a Road
- An Autobiography
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literature's most compelling and influential authors. Hurston's powerful novels of the South - including Jonah's Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were Watching God - continue to enthrall readers with their lyrical grace, sharp detail, and captivating emotionality.
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Very nice!
- De Joi Wilson en 10-31-16
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The Survivors of the Clotilda
- The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
- De: Hannah Durkin
- Narrado por: Tariye Peterside
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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The Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on American soil, docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860—more than half a century after the passage of a federal law banning the importation of captive Africans, and nine months before the beginning of the Civil War. The last of its survivors lived well into the twentieth century. They were the last witnesses to the final act of a terrible and significant period in world history. In this epic work, Dr. Hannah Durkin tells the stories of the Clotilda’s 110 captives, drawing on her intensive archival, historical, and sociological research.
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Great reader!
- De Robin E Moore en 07-07-24
De: Hannah Durkin
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The Last Slave Ship
- The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
- De: Ben Raines
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution. Despite numerous efforts to find the sunken wreck, Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160 years. But in 2019, journalist Ben Raines made international news when he successfully concluded his obsessive quest through the swamps of Alabama to uncover one of our nation’s most important historical artifacts.
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Wow. Just Wow.
- De Pinkhippiechick en 02-11-22
De: Ben Raines
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Nerissa Bradley
- Duración: 10 m
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How It Feels To Be Colored Me was first published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece that focuses on race and 1920s America, Hurston reflects on her early childhood in an all-black Florida town and her first experiences in life where she felt "different." Hurston focuses on the similarities we all share and on her own self-identity in the face of difference. "Through it all," she says, "I remain myself."
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made me tear up
- De Kayla Wilkinson en 06-08-24
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Africatown
- America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
- De: Nick Tabor
- Narrado por: Chris Butler
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
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In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the US from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders.
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So interesting!!!
- De Jamie McCoy en 07-03-23
De: Nick Tabor
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Magnolia Flower
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Ibram X. Kendi, Sheryl Lee Ralph
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Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world, she longs to connect with others, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one can be when leading with one’s heart.
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Beautiful Love story
- De Jaki en 07-12-23
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Undefeated
- Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
- De: Steve Sheinkin
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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When superstar athlete Jim Thorpe and football legend Pop Warner met in 1904 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, they forged one of the winningest teams in American football history. Called "the team that invented football", they took on the best opponents of their day, defeating much more privileged schools such as Harvard and Army in a series of breathtakingly close calls, genius plays, and bone-crushing hard work.
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I don't even like sports.
- De Melmonie en 03-12-18
De: Steve Sheinkin
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The Slave Ship
- A Human History
- De: Marcus Rediker
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the New World. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation complex, but little of the ships that made it all possible. In The Slave Ship, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker draws on 30 years of research in maritime archives to create an unprecedented history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks.
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So much misery
- De Michael en 11-07-07
De: Marcus Rediker
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American Uprising
- The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
- De: Daniel Rasmussen
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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In January 1811, five hundred slaves dressed in military uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and axes rose up from the plantations around New Orleans and set out to conquer the city. Ethnically diverse, politically astute, and highly organized, this self-made army challenged not only the economic system of plantation agriculture but also American expansion. Their march represented the largest act of armed resistance against slavery in the history of the United States.
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Nice try, but ...
- De Steve en 07-26-12
De: Daniel Rasmussen
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The Souls of Black Folk
- De: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” writes Du Bois, in one of the most prophetic works in all of American literature. First published in 1903, this collection of 15 essays dared to describe the racism that prevailed at that time in America—and to demand an end to it. Du Bois’ writing draws on his early experiences, from teaching in the hills of Tennessee, to the death of his infant son, to his historic break with the conciliatory position of Booker T. Washington.
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Essays of 'life and love and strife and failure'
- De ESK en 02-08-13
De: W. E. B. Du Bois
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- Adama Efuru
- 05-16-18
important griot
I relished every word and will likely be quoting it for the next few years until everyone I know has read it. It provides an important historical perspective that needs to be HEARD.
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- Aasim
- 05-14-18
Wonderful performance, but...
Great story and a wonderful performance, but why have a female narrator for a male character?
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- JMKIII58
- 01-29-19
A magnificent read...
I highly recommend this book. Dora takes you into a world that many of us will never know. The detail to dialect and tone transport you back to the beginning of the 20th century. And a survivor of slavery who never forgot he was an African and not an American. The story telling is great. A book that everyone should read.
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- Pam Booth
- 10-26-18
Awesome
Zora is now one of my new found favorite writers. I enjoyed listening to this book and wish that I also had a hard copy to re read anytime.
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- Jennifer Nembhard
- 08-06-18
I found myself wanting more.
There are many lessons to learn from this account. The bridge from the past to present day is undeniable.
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- L.A.
- 12-29-18
Powerful story, book's organization not stellar.
Enjoyed the main story. But I found the order of the book's contents somewhat obstructive. While there's good information in the introduction by Deborah Plant, I would have preferred it to come after Hurston's account. I skipped over it because I was eager to get to hearing the story before having someone other than the author explain it to me as a historical text.
The narrator's performance was exemplary. She excels at presenting Lewis' accent and dialect. It was somewhat disruptive to hear the narrator shift gears to include footnotes. Fortunately that didn't happen a lot. Also the appendix creates another mood shift. It begins with a description of a game that is rather abstract. Perhaps it's something better read through a printed version than listening to it.
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- tabatha dennis
- 04-11-19
American story telling
I loved the authentic dialect. I love the rich language and the story line. I loved how his history flowed and how the timelines were presented and weaved through this book. I felt the emotions. Hearing this story read to me may have been even better than reading the book for once even though I am from the area of the MS-AL Gulf Coast, I would have missed out by page alone.
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- pjean
- 11-01-19
great read!
I really enjoyed the book, and perfect for listening! Good for historical context on how slaves were brought to USA>
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- Jennifer Elliott
- 11-11-19
Amazing
The story, Zora Neale Hurston’s genius and the fantastic narration=incredibly satisfying listen. Thank you!
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- Kimberley Carcana
- 09-01-18
great!
great book. loved it. had me wanting more at the end. the narrator was the best.
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