A review by angus_mckeogh
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

2.0

I suppose why this intriguing book ends up being just mediocre is because of the perceived and anticipated content versus the actual content. I was expecting a great deal of information on what a life in Civil War era slavery was like. That ended up just being a few pages. The majority of the book was Cudjo relating biblical stories and African myths and anecdotes about life in Alabama post-slavery. There was also an extended introduction about why we should forget Hurston’s flirtation with plagiarism and consider this a major book in her canon of journalism.