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The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xix, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways"--
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Publication Info:
New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
Subject:
Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Biography. |
African Americans -- Alabama -- Biography. |
Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century. |
Human trafficking -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century. |
Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century. |
West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century. |
Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century. |
Africatown (Ala.) -- Biography. |
Clotilda (Ship) |
Slaves |
African Americans -- United States |
Afro-Americans |
Black Americans |
Colored people (United States) |
Negroes |
Forced prostitution (Human trafficking) |
People trafficking |
Sex trafficking |
Traffic in persons |
Trafficking in human beings |
Trafficking in persons |
White slave traffic (Human trafficking) |
White slavery (Human trafficking) |
Africans, West |
African Town (Ala.) |
AfricaTown USA (Ala.) |
SAILS ISBN:
9780063072992