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This book is extremely well-researched and informative. It really focuses on the entire lives of several of the Africans brought to Alabama on the last slave ship just before the civil war, from their lives in Africa, during slavery, and after they were freed and had to struggle to live in reconstruction-era south. Fascinating and infuriating.

The audio is really well done!

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This book was so incredibly informative. I really enjoyed this book. I thought it told the story of Cudjo and his shipmates in a very intimate way presentingg their lives before slavery, on their own land in Africa, then being enslaved in a world completely foreign to them and then once again free but with nothing. This book is simply filled with a history not well known about the last Africans brought to be slaves in the US.

This book has the ability to rip your heart into pieces with the simplest statements. 😞

Initial thoughts on this #bookpairing: I‘m glad I read Barracoon first. It gave me the grounds to really start this journey with Dreams of Africa in Alabama. The latter is providing a ton of information about the slave trade and how it affected both the US and West African regions with its decline. Not done with Dreams. Will update again later

So I‘m ready to begin this book as a#bookpairing with Hurston‘s Barracoon. I‘m hoping this has a plethora of information about not just Cudjo but about the Clotilda and some of the other Africans on this ship.