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Author:

Raines, Ben, author.

Title:

The last slave ship : the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning / Ben Raines.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xvii, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Clotilda (Ship)
Slavery--Mobile--Mobile--History--19th century.
Slave trade--Mobile--Mobile--History--19th century.
West Africans--Alabama--History--19th century.
Slaves--Mobile--Mobile--Biography.
Shipwrecks--Mobile River.--Mobile River.
African Americans--Mobile--Mobile--History.
Africatown (Ala.)--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

1982136049
9781982136048

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1268120277

LCCN:

2021042307

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