Barracoon - The Story of the Last Slave

Between 1927 and 1931, anthropologist Zora Neil Hirston traveled to Alabama to speak at length with 90-year-old Kujo Luis, a former slave, the last living witness to this genocidal process.

Kujo shared his memories of the tragedy of his captivity - fifty years after the ban on the transatlantic slave trade - and of his stay in the barracoon, the special barracks where slave traders imprisoned black slaves before stacking them as lifeless slaves. of their ships.

Hurston's book reproduces the voice and special localism of Kujo Luis in a unique historical account: an invaluable contribution to history and truth. A work as painful and deep as the hold of the hell-ships that crossed the Atlantic.