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African Town / Irene Latham & Charles Waters.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 438 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593322888
  • 0593322886
Other title:
  • African Town : inspired by the true story of the last American slave ship
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.Summary: 1859. The transatlantic slave trade has been banned for more than fifty years, and the South is facing the threat of a civil war. Timothy Maeher resents the government interference in his right to make a living. Making a bet that he can smuggle enslaved Africans into the United States without being caught, he commissions the Clotilda, and brings back 110 African captives. Among them are Abilè, Gumpa, Kêhounco, Kossola, and Kupolee, who survive the voyage and arrive in Alabama still clinging to the hope of one day returning home. -- adapted from jacket
List(s) this item appears in: YA Poetry and Novels in Verse
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
YA Book YA Book Dr. James Carlson Library YA Fiction LATHAM, IRENE Checked out 06/10/2024 33111010632806
YA Book YA Book Main Library YA Fiction LATHAM, IRENE Available 33111010783666
YA Book YA Book Northport Library YA Fiction LATHAM, IRENE Available 33111009872298
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse.

In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda . Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled out to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which they'd been delivered. At the end of the Civil War, the survivors created a community for themselves they called African Town, which still exists to this day. Told in 14 distinct voices, including that of the ship that brought them to the American shores and the founder of African Town, this powerfully affecting historical novel-in-verse recreates a pivotal moment in US and world history, the impacts of which we still feel today.

Ages 12+. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Grades 7-9. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.

1859. The transatlantic slave trade has been banned for more than fifty years, and the South is facing the threat of a civil war. Timothy Maeher resents the government interference in his right to make a living. Making a bet that he can smuggle enslaved Africans into the United States without being caught, he commissions the Clotilda, and brings back 110 African captives. Among them are Abilè, Gumpa, Kêhounco, Kossola, and Kupolee, who survive the voyage and arrive in Alabama still clinging to the hope of one day returning home. -- adapted from jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435).

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