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Why was interviewing Cudjo Lewis important to Hurston?
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In the introduction. Hurston wrote that there had been a robust amount of literature concerning slavery published in the early twentieth century, but that those books rarely included perspectives from those formerly held in bondage: as she put it, “all these words from the seller, but not one word from the sold” (6).
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