Barracoon
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Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
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Storytelling and Memory
Slavery and Racism
The American Dream
Cultural Relativism
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Kossula / Cudjo Lewis
Zora Neale Hurston
Abila / Seely
Cudjo’s Mother
King of Dahomey
Gumpa
Free George
Aleck
Poe-lee
Cudjo Jr.
Cudjo’s Daughter, Seely
Jim Meaher
Tim Meaher
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Barracoon
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Boats and the Middle Passage
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Introduction
Intro
Plot Summary
Plot
Summary & Analysis
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Themes
All Themes
Storytelling and Memory
Slavery and Racism
The American Dream
Cultural Relativism
Family
Quotes
Characters
All Characters
Kossula / Cudjo Lewis
Zora Neale Hurston
Abila / Seely
Cudjo’s Mother
King of Dahomey
Gumpa
Free George
Aleck
Poe-lee
Cudjo Jr.
Cudjo’s Daughter, Seely
Jim Meaher
Tim Meaher
Terms
All Terms
Barracoon
Symbols
All Symbols
Boats and the Middle Passage
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The title of the novel, this word refers to the open-air stockades in which captured Africans were kept before being sold into slavery and embarking on the
Middle Passage
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Cudjo
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