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After being kept in the Alain Locke Collection at Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for more than half a century, Barracoon was released to the public in May. Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon widens the scope of this default, reductive rendering of history through form and function.

Both myopic narratives prevent people from exploring the continent’s full range of societies-not only spurring resentment among African Americans and African and Caribbean immigrants, but also promoting ignorance of the shared cultural elements that survived the journey across the Atlantic. To open his last verse, he pleads with black children to look to the distant past for inspiration: “ we came to this country / We were kings and queens, never porch monkeys.” Incomplete and romanticized readings of history have resulted in a fanatical, monolithic image of Africa, or worse, a dismissal of the rest of the continent as a backwards land that colonizers rightfully raided. Consider Nas’s 2003 song “ I Can” (his highest-charting single to date), which was widely lauded for its uplifting message.

Eatonville, Florida meets Eastonville D.C.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 Selassie’s Ethiopia.

Gearing up for the annual Zora Festivals!.

Harper Perennial and the Zora Neale Hurston Trust sign a new exclusive deal.

2012 Zora Neale Hurston Award winner announced!.

Wreckage of Last Known Slave Ship in U.S.

Descendants’ Stories of the Clotilda Slave Ship Drew Doubts.

A Work by Zora Neale Hurston Will Finally Be Published.

Barracoon and Slave Old Man Approach the Trauma of Slavery With Care and Kinship.

Event: Between the Lines: Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” May 8th 2018.

Barracoon Tells The Story Of The Last Slave In First Person.

Zora Neale Hurston’s Long-Unpublished Barracoon Finds Its Place After Decades of Delay.

Widespread coverage of the release of Barracoon.

The Last Slave (with excerpt of Barracoon).

“You Don’t Know Us Negroes” adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston, who was a tireless crusader in all her writing, and ahead of her time.