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Ibram X. Kendi presents "Barracoon"

  • When: Friday, January 26, 2024,  7:00 pm
  • Location: Abraham Lincoln Middle School Auditorium 1001 SE 12th St, Gainesville, FL, 32641
  • Cost: General Admission $25 - one person and one book | Family Bundle $30 - one adult, one child, and one book

Join award-winning author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi for an evening discussing "Barracoon" and his adaptations of Zora Neale Hurston’s work, Hurston’s enduring legacy, and why he wanted to adapt her work for children (and more!), plus Q&A with pre-selected audience questions.

Tickets will be bundled with a signed copy of the book.

About Barracoon
In the first middle grade offering from Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, young readers are introduced to the remarkable and true-life story of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last survivors of the Atlantic human trade, in an adaptation of the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Barracoon.

This is the life story of Cudjo Lewis, as told by himself.

Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America to be enslaved, 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis was then the only person alive to tell the story of his capture and bondage—fifty years after the Atlantic human trade was outlawed in the United States. Cudjo shared his firsthand account with legendary folklorist, anthropologist, and writer Zora Neale Hurston.
Hurston spent months talking with Cudjo about the details of his life. Cudjo recounted memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of the raid of his village, being captured and held in a barracoon for sale by human traders, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War.

Adapted with care and delivered with age-appropriate historical context by award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi, Cudjo’s incredible story is now available for young readers and emerging scholars. With powerful illustrations by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, this poignant work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.

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