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A Stolen Life

A Stolen Life

Zora Neale Hurston relates the stories of an extraordinary survivor of the transatlantic slave trade

FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: When she died in 1960, Zora Neale Hurston left behind a manuscript that tells the story of Oluale Kossola, known in the United States as Cudjo Lewis, the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. With editing by Hurston scholar Deborah G. Plant, Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” was published in 2018.

An American Literary Life
An American Literary Life

An American Literary Life

Frye Gaillard discusses Jimmy Carter’s love of the written word

“Information Worker at the End of the World”

“Information Worker at the End of the World”

Book Excerpt: I Would Define the Sun

Laughter in the Face of Despair

Laughter in the Face of Despair

Steve Stern connects the ridiculous and the sublime in A Fool’s Kabbalah

Black Women Who Changed the World
Black Women Who Changed the World

Black Women Who Changed the World

Keisha Blain talks with Chapter 16 about a lost slice of American history

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Chapter 16, launched in October 2009, is an online journal about books, writers, and literary events in Tennessee and serves as the state affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.

We cover novels set here; histories involving Tennessee events or locations; authors who live here, were born or educated here; and out-of-state writers when they give readings or participate in book signings anywhere in the state. We also publish original poems and essays by prominent Tennessee authors (including previews of their works in progress).

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