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My middle-grade adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's powerful classic, #Barracoon, is now 50% off at @barnesandnoble until Monday, September 2. Dive into the remarkable true story of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last survivors of the transatlantic human trade.
Somebody in one of these rooms mentioned Cujo Lewis in a debate, sharing because I saw some of my followers there. I read #Barracoon for #BlackAmericanHistoryMonth, there were A TON of discoveries, and I did a book review about it. Lmk your thoughts!📖
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This standing ovation capped off a recent #Barracoon event I’ll never forget at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Denver, organized by Tattered Cover. The church was founded in August 1859, the same month a ship named the Clotilda arrived in Mobile, Alabama, with Cudjo Lewis and other enslaved people from West Africa. Lewis tells his life story in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon, which I adapted for young readers and now is a New York Times Best Seller.
Among the founders of this church was Clara Brown. Upon the death of her Kentucky enslaver, Brown had been emancipated at 56 years old around the same time Lewis had been enslaved at 18 years old.
Brown traveled West in the midst of the Colorado Gold Rush. This predominantly White influx of settlers increasingly occupied Native lands and decimated Native communities in Colorado’s plains and mountains.
In Gilpin County, Brown established a laundry service, the occupation of many freed Black women at that time. She saved her money and acquired housing and mining properties in Denver and Boulder. Brown became known as the “Angel of the Rockies” for opening her arms, home, and purse to formerly enslaved Black people coming to Colorado.
But as she help found Trinity United Methodist Church in 1859, Brown longed for what Lewis longed for as he walked off the Clotilda that month into Alabama slavery. They longed for what human traders brutally separated: families.
International human traders had separated Lewis from his parents and siblings in 1859. Decades earlier, domestic human traders had separated Brown from her husband and children. When Black people found freedom before and after the Civil War, there number one priority was usually finding family.
Lewis never saw his parents and siblings again. He married after the Civil War and created a new family in AfricaTown. After decades of searching, in 1882, Brown found her daughter, Eliza Jane, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. #blackhistorymonth
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We are overjoyed over here because of this! Second week #Barracoon is a New York Times Best Seller. This never gets old. The gratefulness is always new. 🙏🏾
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The third starred review for #Barracoon, adapted for young readers. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This time from the librarians over at School Library Journal. 🙏🏾🙌🏾
The review in full:
“Collected by Zora Neale Hurston in 1931, the tale of the ‘Last Black Cargo’ wasn’t published for 87 years because Hurston refused to alter the dialect of the formerly enslaved Cudjo Lewis. The sole living Black man kidnapped from West Africa in 1859, Cudjo survived transport to the U.S. on the final slave ship, was forced to work, and was suddenly liberated in 1865 with no resources or means to return home. A significant introduction creates the context for Cudjo’s story and Hurston’s fieldwork as an anthropologist to gather it. Kendi honors the tale by preserving both Cudjo’s and Hurston’s voices. The visual art as well as the narrative are exceptional; astonishing black-and-white images created by fine artist Lee-Johnson demand attention and create pause. Cudjo’s lifelong yearning for his home and the tragic lives of his six children bring readers to his final parting with Hurston. The interviews and artistry here create of this narrative an emotional experience. VERDICT This adaptation of Hurston’s beautiful, important work is a true gift. Highly recommended for all libraries.”
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HOUSTON!!! It’s going down tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 3 at 1 pm at the Houston Public Library. My final stop on the #Barracoon tour! I’ll be in conversation with Dr. Tara T. Green. This event is organized by Kindred Stories in partnership with @ACLUTx. Join us! 🙌🏾
Tickets: https://t.co/9eCl8rnfP7
DETROIT! I am absolutely thrilled to come to town on this first day of #BlackHistoryMonth and speak at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History at 5 pm. I’ll be speaking about #Barracoon and more with Wright Museum President and CEO Neil Barclay. Pull up Detroit! 🙌🏾
Tickets: https://t.co/1xjmROtJWp
To think that Zora Neale Hurston and Cudjo Lewis did not live to see #Barracoon published. And now, it is New York Times Best Seller, again! 🙌🏾
I am full of gratitude for the magnificent visual artist Jazzmen Lee-Johnson. I am full of appreciation for my literary agent, Ayesha Pande, and for my editor, Luana Horry. I am full of gratefulness for Zora’s descendants, the trustees of the Zora Neale Hurston Trust, who supported me in adapting #Barracoon for young readers. I am full of thanks for the kids and adults who are reading or soon will be reading #Barracoon.
I am full of gratitude on this first day of #BlackHistoryMonth and pouring it out to Zora and Cudjo! 🫗🙏🏾🫶🏿
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To say that the day was amazing would not be fitting. It was phenomenal and life-changing. ✨
Many thanks to @ibramxk for sharing his remarkable work and insight with our students. #Barracoon #zoranealehurston
It has been incredibly hard to be away from my family. But it has been incredibly fulfilling to engage with curious youngsters and courageous adults at each event. Only four more opportunities this week to catch me on tour for #Barracoon!
Buffalo (tomorrow, Jan. 30).
Detroit (Thursday, Feb. 1).
Denver (Friday, Feb. 2).
Houston (Saturday, Feb. 3).
Tickets: https://t.co/1xjmROtc6R
ATLANTA! I’m thrilled to speak today at 5 pm at the Fulton County Central Library. Talking all about #Barracoon with Kimberly Jones. Thank you at Brave & Kind Bookshop for hosting us! See everyone very soon.
Tickets: https://t.co/cHsYZcD6Yd
GAINESVILLE, Florida! It’s been too long. Coming to town this evening to speak on #Barracoon alongside Dr. Deborah G. Plant. S/O @MathesonMuseum. Much to discuss!
At Lincoln Middle School
Begins at 7 pm.
Tickets👇🏾
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When I adapted Zora Neale Hurston’s #Barracoon for kids, I wanted it to read like a grandparent sharing their difficult life story with care and love to their grandchild.
📸 Cudjo Lewis, the subject of #Barracoon, with his great granddaughters. c. 1927.
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We are excited to welcome @ibramxk to @JATrojans today in partnership with @AOBFound ahead of his book release #Barracoon, adapted from Zora Neale Hurston’s original.
Six years ago today. Getting my first chemotherapy infusion. Finding humor in the pain of stage 4 colon cancer. How to Be an Antiracist taking shape in the laptop. The highly anticipated #Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston is nearing publication in less than four months.
If someone would have told me on that day that six years later I would be coming out with an adaptation of Barracoon for kids ages 8 and up, then I would not have believed them. I did not think I would be living in six years. I did not write books for kids. I could not have imagined being granted such an important opportunity. Just a PSA to say, we never know what improbable gift the future is holding for us.
I only pray on this day and every day that my best friend and partner, Sadiqa, who was recently diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, will also receive the improbable gifts of surviving and thriving. And six years from now, she is coming out with a fulfilling project that she never thought was possible. 🫶🏿
D-M-V! Two opportunities to join our conversation on #Barracoon and Zora Neale Hurston and language and slavery and AfricaTown and history!
TONIGHT in Baltimore at the Reginald F. Lewis Musuem of Maryland African American History and Culture at 6:30 pm with Jazzmen Lee-Johnson and Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead.
TOMORROW in Washington, DC, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at 7 pm hosted by the iconic Black-owned bookstore Mahogany Books with Tony Keith Jr.
Tickets: https://t.co/1xjmROtc6R
Zora Hurston met resistance for wanting to publish her interviews w/Oluale Kossola (Cudjoe Lewis) using his dialect/vernacular. It was not published until 2018. She honors Cudjoe & the ancestors of slavery by not whitewashing his account. #barracoon
Quick read! Lasting impact!
I am proud to partner with the new International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, on a tour event for #Barracoon. This must see museum was built on the site of a former shipping pier known as Gadsden’s Wharf where countless ships unloaded tens of thousands of enslaved Africans. Possibly even one of my ancestors.
One of the last known persons of African descent to be taken from Africa, enslaved, and forced to come to the United States was Cudjo Lewis, who tells his life story in Barracoon through Zora Neale Hurston. I’ve adapted this book for young people and I’m thrilled to speak about it in Charleston, hosted by the International African American Museum.
The event will be on January 25th at 6:30 pm at Burke High School. I’ll be in conversation with Thelisha Eaddy.
Tickets: https://t.co/1xjmROtc6R
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