The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade /
Durkin, Hannah,
The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade / Lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade Hannah Durkin. - xix, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"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"--
9780063072992 0063072998
2023040988
Clotilda (Ship)
Enslaved persons--Alabama--Biography.
African Americans--Alabama--Biography.
Enslaved persons--History--Alabama--19th century.
Human trafficking--History--Alabama--19th century.
Slave trade--History--United States--19th century.
West Africans--History--Alabama--19th century.
Mobile (Ala.)--History--19th century.
Africatown (Ala.)--Biography.
Biographies.
The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade / Lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade Hannah Durkin. - xix, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"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"--
9780063072992 0063072998
2023040988
Clotilda (Ship)
Enslaved persons--Alabama--Biography.
African Americans--Alabama--Biography.
Enslaved persons--History--Alabama--19th century.
Human trafficking--History--Alabama--19th century.
Slave trade--History--United States--19th century.
West Africans--History--Alabama--19th century.
Mobile (Ala.)--History--19th century.
Africatown (Ala.)--Biography.
Biographies.