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Barracoon is a previously unreleased book by Zora Neale Hurston chronicling the American slave trade and the true story of its last survivor. Containing as much empathy as it does insight and research, Barracoon is an essential dive into the atrocities of history that still shape our culture today.

Publication date: May 8

Get it from Amazon for $22.49+, Barnes & Noble for $22.49+, or a local bookseller through IndieBound here.