New York Times Bestseller 

 TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 

• New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 

• NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year 

• SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 

• Audible’s Best of the Year

 • BookRiot’s Best Audio Books of 2018 

• The Atlantic’s Books Briefing: History, Reconsidered

 • Atlanta Journal Constitution, Best Southern Books 2018  

• The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Books 2018 • 

“A profound impact on Hurston’s literary legacy.”―New York Times

“One of the greatest writers of our time.”―Toni Morrison

“Zora Neale Hurston’s genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece.”―Alice Walker

A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade―abducted from Africa on the last “Black Cargo” ship to arrive in the United States.