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Raines, Ben,.
The last slave ship :
the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning /
Ben Raines.
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2022.
pages cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
20220222.
Clotilda (Ship.)
Slavery
Alabama
Mobile
History
19th century.
Slave trade
Alabama
Mobile
History
19th century.
West Africans
Alabama
History
19th century.
Slaves
Alabama
Mobile
Biography.
Shipwrecks
Alabama
Mobile River.
African Americans
Alabama
Mobile
History.
Africatown (Ala.)
History.
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