Title The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade / Hannah Durkin.

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New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]

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Canton Public Library - Adult New Materials	306.362 DURKIN	Check Shelf
Cheshire Public Library - Adult New Materials Lower Level	306.362 DURKIN	DUE 05-02-24
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Edition	First edition.
Description	xix, 412 pages, 16 pages unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents	Maps -- The Clotilda Africans -- A note on the spelling of names -- Kidnap -- The conpiracy -- The coast -- The sea -- Arrival -- The river -- The black belt -- The capital -- African town -- Reunion -- Burials -- Gee's bend -- Cocolocco -- The courthouse.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-392) and index.
Subject	West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
	Clotilda (Ship)
Genre/Form	Personal narratives.
Subject	Africatown (Ala.) -- Biography.
	African Americans -- Alabama -- Biography.
	Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
Local Subject	Trafficking in enslaved persons -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Subject	Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Biography.
	Human trafficking -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
	Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Added Title	Lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade
Other Form:	Online version: Durkin, Hannah. Survivors of the Clotilda First edition. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] 9780063073012 (DLC) 2023040989
ISBN	9780063072992 (hardcover)
	0063072998 (hardcover)

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