![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sign up for our acclaimed free newsletter Editorially Black with the top Racial Equity stories of the day to your inbox!īorn as Kossula or Kossola c. Black writers, particularly one so emboldened with integrity as Hurston, have often met with reluctance when presenting their creations, and Hurston did a remarkable job of capturing Lewis’s trials and tribulations, in his own voice. Lewis’s saga is one that Hurston delivered intact, recording Lewis’s words as he spoke them, dialect and all––that may have been one of the problems halting publication, though a deeper concern was who the writer was and the subject. Even so, there are still thousands of Americans who have yet to discover Lewis and his phenomenal tale. Black Financial Health Open dropdown menuĭuring a recent panel discussion at the Brooklyn Book Festival, the presence of Lucy Anne Hurston was instructive as she delved into the history and legacy of her aunt Zora Neale Hurston, most notably her publication of “Barracoon.” It was not until recently that Hurston’s story about the last slave ship to arrive in the United States and her engrossing interview with Cudjoe or Cudjo Lewis was finally published by Amistad. ![]()
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