Africatown: America's last slave ship and the community it created
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"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 chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon. That community, Africatown, has endured to the present day, and many of the community residents are the shipmates' direct descendants. After many decades of neglect and a Jim Crow legal system that targeted the area for industrialization, the community is struggling to survive. Many community members believe the pollution from the heavy industry surrounding their homes has caused a cancer epidemic among residents, and companies are eyeing even more land for development. At the same time, after the discovery of the remains of the Clotilda in the riverbed nearby, a renewed effort is underway to create a living memorial to the community and the lives of the slaves who founded it. An evocative and epic story, Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants in the face of persistent racism"--
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Tabor, N. (2023). Africatown: America's last slave ship and the community it created. First edition. New York, St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Tabor, Nick. 2023. Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created. New York, St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Tabor, Nick, Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Tabor, Nick. Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created. First edition. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2023.
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300 | |a viiiii, 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 24 cm | ||
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504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-360) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a Prologue: "What did you do to plateau?" -- Coast to coast: 1859-1865. The lion of lions -- "They'll hang nobody" -- Caravan -- Barracoons -- Arrival -- Wartime -- African Town: 1865-1935. To have land -- White supremacy, by force and fraud -- Progressivism for white men only -- Renaissance -- Preservation and demolition: 1950-2008. King cotton, king pulp -- "Relocation procedures" -- A threat to business -- Going back to church -- From the brink: 2012-2022. One Mobile -- Houston-east, Charleston-west -- Reconstruction. | |
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