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Introduction and Chapter I

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Hurston, Zora Neale. Barracoon. 2018. Amistad Publishing. E-book.

• The introduction, written by Zora Neale Hurston at the time of publication, begins on page 5.

• Hurston states that Cudjo Lewis was living in Plateau, Alabama when she first met him.

• It was July of 1927.

• Three of the four men responsible for the deal that resulted in Cudjo's status as a slave were brothers in the Meaher family.

• They were Tim, Jim, and Burns Meaher.

• The fourth man was Captain Foster, who owned and sailed the Clotilde, the ship on which Cudjo was brought to America.

• The owner of the Clotilde deceptively reported that the ship had been on a mission to retrieve red palm oil.

• Importing slaves was already illegal in America by that time.

• After Cudjo was abducted, he was taken to the...

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