Impact of Slavery in Barracoon The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

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Impact of Slavery in Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

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Slavery has been one of the largest themes that can be found throughout the narration of the Barracoon: The Last of the “Black Cargo.” The aspect of slavery can be tracked via the narrations provided by Lewis during the direct interview with Zora Neale Hurston (Womack, 2015). The interview was done face to face at Lewis home that is located in Africa town. Throughout the interview, we gain the firsthand information concerning the issues of slavery that beheld Lewis and his people that eventually led to their deportation to the united states. Back at home, Lewis remembers how they used to live peacefully until the attack by the Dahomey soldiers under the war-mongering king (Grant, 2018). During this attacks most of the people were killed while others were maimed. Most of the survivors were captured and taken to the American continent to be sold as slaves. After being sold as a slave, he spent five years serving as a slave and eventually he was freed after the civil war.

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Impact of Slavery in Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

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Slavery has been one of the largest themes that can be found throughout the narration of the Barracoon: The Last of the “Black Cargo.” The aspect of slavery can be tracked via the narrations provided by Lewis during the direct interview with Zora Neale Hurston (Womack, 2015). The interview was done face to face at Lewis home that is located in Africa town. Throughout the interview, we gain the firsthand information concerning the issues of slavery that beheld Lewis and his people that eventually led to their deportation to the united states. Back at home, Lewis remembers how they used to live peacefully until the attack by the Dahomey soldiers under the war-mongering king (Grant, 2018). During this attacks most of the people were killed while others were maimed. Most of the survivors were captured and taken to the American continent to be sold as slaves. After being sold as a slave, he spent five years serving as a slave and eventually he was freed after the civil war.

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References

Bonilla-Silva, E. (2017). Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America. RowmDu Bois, W. E. B. (2017). Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880. Routledge.

Filler, L. (2017). The crusade against slavery: 1830-1860. Routledge.

Grant, C. (2018). BARRACOON The story of the last” Black Cargo”.

Harrold, S. (2015). The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves. University Press of Kentucky.

Womack, A. (2015). “The Brown Bag of Miscellany”: Zora Neale Hurston and the Practice of Overexposure. Black Camera: An International Film Journal (The New Series), 7(1), 115-133.