“I knew where the material was all right.
“I did not have the right approach,” she recalls in her memoir, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942). An earlier visit to the settlement outside Mobile, Alabama, had produced disastrous results: sent by mentor Franz Boas to interview Cudjo “Kazoola” Lewis, born Oluale Kossula-the last living survivor of the last slave ship, the Clotilda, to traffic enslaved Africans illegally to the United States-Hurston had considerable difficulty completing her first major research assignment. Zora Neale Hurston’s second trip to Africatown was a chance for redemption.
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