Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork 1928 ( RARE FOOTAGE)
CREDIT: Filmmaker: Zora Neale Hurston DESCRIPTION: Gabe Paoletti says: In the 1910s, a writer from Mobile, Emma Langdon Roche, interviewed Cudjo for her book Historic Sketches of the South. Arthur Fauset, a writer and folklorist of the early 20th century, talked to Cudjo in 1925, where Cudjo relayed many of the animal stories of his cultures oral tradition to Fauset. By then, Cudjo was the last survivor of the Clotilde, and the last person alive to have been brought to America from Africa as a slave. Fa
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