Abducted From Africa, Sold In America.a Deeply Affecting Record Of An Extraordinary Life- Daily Telegrapha Major Literary Event: A Newly Published Work From The Author Of The American Classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, With A Foreword From Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Alice Walker.the True Story Of One Of The Last-known Survivors Of The Atlantic Slave August 1931, Famed Anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston Travelled To Alabama To Visit Ninety-year-old Cudjo Lewis, A Former Slave.over Three Months, Cudjo Shared Heart-rending Memories Of His Childhood In Africa; The Horrors Of Being Captured Fifty Years After Slavery Was Outlawed And Held In The Ouidah Barracoons For Selection By American Slavers; The Harrowing Ordeal Of The Middle Passage Aboard The Clotilda With Over One Hundred Other Souls; And The Years He Spent In Slavery.barracoon Brings To Life Cudjos Singular Voice In An Invaluable Contribution To History And Culture, A Work As Poignant As It Is Profound.