Have you ever had a book hangover? You can't focus and you feel a little sick. I get them sometimes if the content is partially intense for the writing is so good that I have invested heavily into it. That was the kind of experience I had once I finished Kindred.
Read MoreIn 1927, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Africatown, a small settlement in Georgia, to document the first-hand account of a man named Cudjo Lewis. Barracoon is the culmination of interviews Hurston collected over multiple trips about Lewis' life, including his capture, enslavement, and eventual release.
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