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A review by labricoleuse
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
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: Colonisation, Death, Confinement, Death of parent, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Child death, and Racism