Book Review for Barracoon: The Last Black Cargo

A. Garza
11 min readAug 27, 2019

The Title

Are we there yet? I think I see chapter 1 just over that hill!

What struck me first about this novel was the title. When I looked up the meaning of the word Barracoon it was described as the holding cell where prisoners, specifically black slaves taken by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the case of this book, are kept during their impending…

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A. Garza

CEO of Reading Rage Ink, a charitable organization that donates to organizations that support marginalized communities.