Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
Description
In 1860, the illegal slave ship Clotilda secretly carried more than 100 Africans to Alabama, even as the transatlantic slave trade had been outlawed. After emancipation, the survivors built Africatown, a resilient community near Mobile that preserved its heritage, traditions, and collective memory across generations. This sweeping work traces the community’s origins and enduring struggle amid segregation, economic hardship, environmental injustice, and the long quest to recover the truth about the ship and its people. It is a powerful account of survival, identity, and the continuing legacy of slavery in America.
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hardcover
St. Martin’s Press
Published Jan 1, 2023
384 pages
ISBN: 9781250766540
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First Published
2023
Language
eng
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