Foster easily found and purchased captives at the coastal barracoons at Whydah. Arriving on the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea, Foster made his way to Dahomey to communicate with the king, who would provide captives. Because the slave trade was illegal by then, Foster had to be careful as he maneuvered, navigating the waters secretively and bribing officials. The Clotilda, the ship for the voyage, likely belonged to Foster. He was aboard the last ship of the slave trade to take African people to the Americas through the Middle Passage in 1859, led by brothers Jim, Tim, and Burns Meaher, and Captain William Foster. Franz Boas on a raid in Kossola’s hometown. Hurston first met him in 1927 when doing research for Dr. Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo' 4 likes Like The only man on earth who has in his heart the memory of his African home the horrors of a slave raid the barracoon the Lenten tones of slavery and who has sixty-seven years of freedom in a foreign land behind him. Cudjo Lewis, born Oluale Kossola, is now among those Africans speaking of their experience. Hurston begins by explaining how there are many public accounts of the slave trade, often from the perspective of slave traders, but not nearly enough accounts from the perspective of African people sold as cargo. Zora Neale Hurston, (born January 7, 1891, Notasulga, Alabama, U.S.
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