Common, Lionsgate Will Develop Zora Neale Hurston Limited Series

Rapper/actor Common's will adapt a recently discovered Zora Neale Hurston book for Lionsgate TV, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The team has acquired rights to Barracoon, a posthumous, previously unpublished work by Hurston. It will be developed as a limited series.

The nonfiction book tells the story of Cudjo Lewis (born Oluale Kossola), the last known SURVIVOR of the Middle Passage who was brought to the United States in 1860, half a century after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed.

Hurston interviewed Lewis in 1927 about his time as a slave and the complexities of Reconstruction and freedom after the Civil War ended. The manuscript had been housed at Howard University for more than 50 years before it was published in May.

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