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African Americans Alabama Mobile History Africatown (Ala.) History Alabama Alabama Mobile Clotilda (Ship) Shipwrecks Alabama Mobile River Slave trade Alabama Mobile History 19th century Slavery Alabama Mobile History 19th century Slaves Alabama Mobile Biography West Africans Alabama History 19th centuryTabor, Nick
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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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