Dreams of Africa in Alabama The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America |
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| Author:
| Diouf, Sylviane A. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-538293-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 2009 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $44.50AUD $62.95 |
Book Description:
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Winner of the 2007 Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association, this acclaimed volume tells the moving story of the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves--more than fifty years after the United States abolished the international slave trade. Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860, ranging from their capture and passage, to their lives as...
More DescriptionWinner of the 2007 Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association, this acclaimed volume tells the moving story of the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves--more than fifty years after the United States abolished the international slave trade. Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860, ranging from their capture and passage, to their lives as slaves, to their emancipation and the foundation of their own settlement after the Civil War.