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100	1		_aTabor, Nick, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAfricatown : _bAmerica's last slave ship and the community it created / _cNick Tabor.
246	3	0	_aAmerica's last slave ship and the community it created
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bSt. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_avi, 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
336			_acartographic image _bcri _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon. That community, Africatown, has endured to the present day, and many of the community residents are the shipmates' direct descendants. After many decades of neglect and a Jim Crow legal system that targeted the area for industrialization, the community is struggling to survive. Many community members believe the pollution from the heavy industry surrounding their homes has caused a cancer epidemic among residents, and companies are eyeing even more land for development. At the same time, after the discovery of the remains of the Clotilda in the riverbed nearby, a renewed effort is underway to create a living memorial to the community and the lives of the slaves who founded it. An evocative and epic story, Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants in the face of persistent racism"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aPart I: Coast to Coast 1859-1865 -- The lion of lions -- "They'll hang nobody" -- Caravan -- Barracoons -- Arrival -- Wartime -- Part II: African Town 1865-1935 -- To have land -- White supremacy, by force and fraud -- Progressivism for white men only -- Renaissance -- Part III: Preservation and demolition 1950-2008 -- King Cotton, King Pulp -- "Relocation procedures" -- A threat to business -- Going back to church -- Part 4: From the brink 2012-2022 -- One mobile -- Houston-east, Charleston-west -- Reconstruction.
505	0		_aCoast to coast: 1859-1935 -- African Town: 1865-1935 -- Preservation and demolition: 1950-2008 -- From the brink: 2012-2022.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _zAlabama _zMobile _xHistory.
651		0	_aAfricatown (Ala.) _xHistory.
610	2	0	_aClotilda (Ship) _9358158
650		0	_aWest Africans _zAlabama _xHistory _y19th century. _9358160
650		0	_aSlavery _zAlabama _xHistory _y19th century. _9358164
651		0	_aAfricatown (Ala.) _xSocial conditions _y21st century.
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