The survivors of the Clotilda, the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade, Hannah Durkin
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The survivors of the Clotilda, the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade, Hannah Durkin
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-392) and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
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mapsillustrationsplatesphotographs
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The survivors of the Clotilda
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Hannah Durkin
Sub title
the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade
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."--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Maps -- The Clotilda Africans -- A note on the spelling of names -- Kidnap -- The conpiracy -- The coast -- The sea -- Arrival -- The river -- The black belt -- The capital -- African town -- Reunion -- Burials -- Gee's bend -- Cocolocco -- The courthouse
resource.variantTitle
Lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade
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- Biographies
- Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Personal narratives
- Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century
- Human trafficking -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Alabama -- Biography
- Africatown (Ala.) -- Biography
- Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Biography
- Clotilda (Ship)
- Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
- West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
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- Classification1
- Creator1
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- Subject11
- Biographies
- Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Personal narratives
- Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century
- Human trafficking -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Alabama -- Biography
- Africatown (Ala.) -- Biography
- Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Biography
- Clotilda (Ship)
- Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
- West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
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- Author1
- Other version1