Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195382938ISBN-10:195382935UPC:9780195382938Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Slavery, United StatesBook Topic:19th Century, State & LocalAward:2009 James F. Sulzby Book Award Winner - Historical AwardSize:9.22 x 6.38 x 0.97 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SCGA4PTCD4
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda, to...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195382938ISBN-10:195382935UPC:9780195382938Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Slavery, United StatesBook Topic:19th Century, State & LocalAward:2009 James F. Sulzby Book Award Winner - Historical AwardSize:9.22 x 6.38 x 0.97 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SCGA4PTCD4
Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning author of books on African and African diaspora history and culture. She has taught at Libreville University and New York University and is currently a curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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🏆 2009 James F. Sulzby Book Award Winner - Historical Award
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