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Hurston, Zora Neale

Summary: In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 HUR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 HUR

Butler-Ngugi, Anitra

Summary: "In 2019, the remains of the Clotilda were discovered in the Mobile River. The discovery of the last slave ship helped document the history of Africatown-a community built by Africans who had been illegally brought to Mobile, Alabama, on that ship in 1860 and enslaved. But for more than 160 years, the people of Africatown have been preserving their own history and culture-and fighting for a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.362 BUT

Fischer, David Hackett

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 FIS

Huey, Lois Miner.

Summary: Details the archaeological discovery of thirteen skeletons in upstate New York that were identified as eighteenth century slaves from the Schuyler farm.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 HUE

Hurston, Zora Neale

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, CUDJO HUR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEWIS HUR

Oso, Maisha

Summary: "Before the Ships is a powerful and poetic celebration of the early roots of Black history."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OSO

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