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佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿（佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿，1891 年 1 月 7 日至 1960 年 1 月 28 日）是美国作家、人类学家和电影制片人。她描绘了 1900 年代早期美国南部的种族斗争，并发表了关于不祥之物的研究。她的四部小说中最受欢迎的是 1937 年出版的《他们的眼睛看着上帝》。她还写了 50 多篇短篇小说、戏剧和散文。
赫斯顿出生于阿拉巴马州的诺塔苏尔加，并于 1894 年随家人搬到佛罗里达州的伊顿维尔。她后来将伊顿维尔作为她许多故事的背景。在她早期的职业生涯中，赫斯顿在巴纳德学院和哥伦比亚大学就读期间进行了人类学和人种学研究。她对非洲裔美国人和加勒比地区的民间传说以及这些民间传说对社区身份的贡献很感兴趣。
她还写了关于黑人社区当代问题的小说，并成为哈莱姆文艺复兴的核心人物。她从非洲裔美国人的经历和种族划分中汲取的短篇讽刺作品发表在《新黑人与火焰！！》等选集中。搬回佛罗里达后，赫斯顿撰写并出版了她关于北佛罗里达非裔美国人民间传说的文学选集《骡子和男人》（1935 年），以及她的前三部小说：《乔纳的葫芦藤》（1934 年）；他们的眼睛注视着上帝（1937）；和摩西，山中人（1939 年）。在此期间还出版了《告诉我的马：海地和牙买加的巫毒与生活》（1938 年），记录了她对牙买加和海地仪式的研究。

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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States.
In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo's past--memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War.
Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo's unique vernacular, and written from Hurston's perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.