Contents
Cover
About the Author
Booklist
Title Page
Copyright
Foreword:
Those Who Love Us Never Leave Us Alone with Our Grief: Reading Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Alice Walker
Introduction
Editor’s Note
BARRACOON
Dedication
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
I
II: THE KING ARRIVES
III
IV
V
VI: BARRACOON
VII: SLAVERY
VIII: FREEDOM
IX: MARRIAGE
X: KOSSULA LEARNS ABOUT LAW
XI
XII: ALONE
APPENDIX
Takkoi or Attako—Children’s Game
Stories Kossula Told Me
The Monkey and the Camel
Story of de Jonah
Now Disa Abraham Fadda de Faitful
The Lion Woman
Afterword and Additional Materials Edited by Deborah G. Plant
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Founders and Original Residents of Africatown
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
About the Editor
About the Publisher
