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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurston
2 reviews
aaliyahwalker's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Deportation
labricoleuse's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
This is a fascinating piece of ethnographic history. I’m glad I listened to the audiobook because I get why it is important to write an oral history in the dialect as spoken but I think it would have been difficult to understand. Hearing it was clearer I think.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, and Deportation