Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston, trained in anthropology under Franz Boas, interviewed Cudjo Lewis in Alabama in 1927 and 1928, one of the last survivors of the Clotilda, the final known slave ship to reach the United States. She kept his speech in dialect, which publishers wanted to change, and the book Barracoon was not published until 2018. Her folklore collections, such as Mules and Men, came from long stays in the communities she recorded.