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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024

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

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

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

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