TY  - BOOK
AU  - Latham,Irene
AU  - Waters,Charles
TI  - African Town
SN  - 9780593322888
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - G. P. Putnam's Sons
KW  - Clotilda (Ship)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Black people
KW  - Africa
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - Africatown (Ala.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Novels in verse
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Young adult fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435); Ages 12+; G. P. Putnam's Sons; Grades 7-9; G. P. Putnam's Sons
N2  - 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
ER  -