The Last Slave Ship
The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description: xvii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
"The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day-by the journalist who discovered the ship's remains"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The bet -- The voyage of the Clotilda -- The King of the Amazons -- Captured -- Barracoon -- Into the canebreak -- Five years a slave -- An African town -- Africatown-- the fall -- Finding Clotilda -- Finding a future in the past -- Reconciliation -- Coda.
Subjects:
Clotilda (Ship)
Slavery -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Mobile -- Biography.
Shipwrecks -- Alabama -- Mobile River.
African Americans -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History.
Africatown (Ala.) -- History.
Clotilda (Ship)
Slavery -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Mobile -- Biography.
Shipwrecks -- Alabama -- Mobile River.
African Americans -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History.
Africatown (Ala.) -- History.
ISBN:
9781982136048
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Rai | Main (Downtown) | New - First Level, Nonfiction | Out (Due: 6/4/2024) |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Rai | Ballentine Indoors | New, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Rai | Blythewood | Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Rai | Edgewood | Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Rai | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Rai | St. Andrews Indoors | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 6/7/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index.