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The resulting book, “Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo,’” became a New York Times bestseller and landed on many lists of 2018’s best titles.

Plant, who edited Zora Neale Hurston’s posthumous nonfiction work “Barracoon,” makes a cogent and compelling argument against our country’s criminal justice system — one that not only privileges the moneyed but often literally builds on land once occupied by slave plantations.

With my newfound appetite for the written word, I've now turned to devouring Hurston's "Barracoon," the story derived from interviews conducted in 1927 with Cudjo Lewis, the last surviving "cargo" transported from Africa.

“Barracoon” was finally published in 2018, becoming a bestseller.

Hurston wrote his story in the book “Barracoon; the Story of the Last Black Cargo,” but publishers insisted she translate his words.