Zora Neale Hurston's first book, the story of the last survivor of the last American slave ship, has been published for the first time. Literary history was made on Tuesday with the publication of ...

At age 19, Oluale Kossola was preparing for marriage in his native West African village when he was captured by warriors from a rival tribe and sold into slavery. It was 1860 — a half-century after ...

"Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo,'" one of the only surviving first-person accounts of the transatlantic slave trade, was published in May. WHYY reporter Annette John-Hall interviews ...

Slave narratives tend equally to fascinate and appall. They can represent history, red in tooth and claw, or, in the words of noted multiculturalist Lawrence W. Levine, "a mélange of accuracy and ...

Harlem Renaissance star Zora Neale Hurston is the author of a book only now being published. It's called Barracoon and it spent more than 60 years accessible only to academics. Zora Neale Hurston, the ...

Sitting on his porch in 1928, under the Alabama sun, snacking on peaches, Cudjo Lewis (born Oluale Kossola) recounted to his guest his life story: how he came from a place in West Africa, then ...

“I want to ask you many things. I want to know who you are and how you came to be a slave; and to what part of Africa you belong, and how you fared as a slave, and how you managed as a free man.” So ...

It's been over half a century since Zora Neale Hurston died, but the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God isn't done making waves in the literary world quite yet. On May 8, Barracoon, a nonfiction ...

Author Zora Neale Hurston at the New York Times Book Fair in 1937. Zora Neale Hurston, one of the best known writers of the Harlem Renaissance — and the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God — has a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bestselling author, anti-racist activist and CBS News contributor Ibram X. Kendi talks about his latest work adapting Zora Neale ...

Precolonial black history is often reduced to a troubling binary: Africans as a uniformly subservient arm of the triangular trade and Africa through the lens of monarchies like ancient Egypt and Haile ...