Barracoon
by Zora Neale Hurston, Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, and Ibram X. Kendi • Related Edition: Original
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2024
Word Count 17,994
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: Currently Not Available
- ATOS Reading Level: 5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 551365, 3 AR Points
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- English Language Arts
- History
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- Subject Headings
- Clotilda (Ship)
- Slave trade--Africa--History--19th century--Juvenile literature
- West Africans--Alabama--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Enslaved persons--Alabama--History--19th century
- Slave trade--Alabama--Mobile--History--19th century--Juvenile literature
- Enslaved persons--Alabama--History--19th century--Juvenile literature
- West Africans--Juvenile literature
- Slave ships--Alabama--Juvenile literature
- Slavery--Juvenile literature
- Slave trade--Africa--History--19th century
- Clotilda (Ship)--Juvenile literature
- Slave trade
- Enslaved persons--Alabama--History--19th century--Biography
- Slave trade--History--19th century
- Slave trade--United States--History--19th century--Juvenile literature
- Slave ships--Alabama
- Slavery--Alabama--History--19th century
- Enslaved persons
- West Africans--Alabama--History--19th century--Juvenile literature
- Slave trade--Juvenile literature
- Lewis, Cudjo--Juvenile literature
- History
- Slave ships
- Slave trade--United States
- West Africans--History--19th century
- West Africans--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Lewis, Cudjo
- Slavery--Alabama--History--19th century--Juvenile literature
- West Africans
- Slavery
- Enslaved persons--Alabama--Biography--Juvenile literature
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