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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

French, Howard W.

Summary: "Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960.22 FRE

Rooks, A.E.

Summary: Chronicles the history of the Black Joke, a ship in the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and its quest to liberate as many enslaved people as possible.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326 ROO

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

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...

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

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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

Gurnah, Abdulrazak

Summary: The adventures of a 12-year-old African boy sold into slavery by his father to pay off a debt. The setting is East Africa, a place of trade caravans, tribal warfare and the beginnings of European colonization.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUR

Durkin, Hannah

Summary: "Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 DUR

Raines, Ben

Summary: "The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day-by the journalist who discovered the ship's remains"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.36 RAI

Oso, Maisha

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

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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OSO

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