Barracoon (15 page)

36
    
Diouf,
Dreams of Africa in Alabama
, 66.

37
    
Philip Curtin, ed.,
Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade
(Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, [1967] 1997), 9.

38
    
Morrison,
Beloved
, 274.

39
    
Hurston,
Dust Tracks
, 204.

40
    
Marimba Ani (Dona Richards),
Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora
(Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1992), 12.

41
    
See chapter 8 in the present volume.

42
    
Henry Romeyn, “Little Africa: The Last Slave Cargo Landed in the United States,” in
The Southern Workman
26.1 (January 1897), 14, http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy .lib.usf.edu/eds/ebook.

43
    
See narrative in present volume.

44
    
Ibid.

45
    
Diouf,
Dreams of Africa in Alabama
, 156, 157.

46
    
Ibid., 2.

47
    
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Between the World and Me
(New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2015), 69.

48
    
James Baldwin, “The White Man's Guilt,” in
Baldwin, Collected Essays
(New York: Library of America, [1965] 1998), 723.

DEBORAH G. PLANT
is an independent scholar and writer based in Florida. She is the author of
Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston
(1995) and
Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit
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The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston
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ZORA NEALE HURSTON
was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. An author of four novels (
Jonah's Gourd Vine
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Moses, Man of the Mountain
, 1939; and
Seraph on the Suwanee
, 1948); two books of folklore (
Mules and Men
, 1935, and
Tell My Horse
, 1938); an autobiography (
Dust Tracks on a Road
, 1942); and more than fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University, and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1927. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, Florida, in 1960. In 1973, Alice Walker had a headstone placed at her grave site with this epitaph:
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