![]() ![]() Hurston was recommended by her professor, Franz Boas, for a $1,400 fellowship that Woodson and the American Folklore Society’s Elsie Clews Parson were offering. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) in 1927. Hurston began working as an investigator for Carter G. ![]() 1 While Kossola’s story is not representative of the millions of African people enslaved in the United States, it is still important to know his experience and Hurston’s journey to obtain it. Even though the transatlantic slave trade was abolished in the United States in 1807, thousands of Africans were still brought illegally to the United States to be enslaved until the 1860s. Kossola was thought to be the last of the 110 survivors of the Clotilda, which was one of the last slave ships to travel from the United States to Africa. This book told the story of Cudjo Lewis, who was born as Oluale Kossola. In 2018, another impactful work from Hurston, Barracoon, was published. Zora Neale Hurston was an author and anthropologist, known for her works such as Their Eyes Were Watching God and Mules and Men. ![]()
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