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Author Raines, Ben, author.

Title The last slave ship : the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning / Ben Raines.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  306.362 RAINES    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  306.362 RAINES    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  306.362 RAI    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.362 RAINES    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  306.362 RAINES    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  306.326 RAINES, BEN    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  306.36 RAINES    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  306.362 RAI    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - New Materials  306.362 RAINES    DUE 09-27-22 Billed
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  306.362 RAI    Check Shelf

Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xvii, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index.
Contents The bet -- The voyage of the Clotilda -- The King of the Amazons -- Captured -- Barracoon -- Into the canebrake -- Five years a slave -- An African town -- Africatown -- the fall -- Finding Clotilda -- Finding a future in the past -- Reconciliation -- Coda.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
Clotilda (Ship)
Shipwrecks -- Alabama -- Mobile River.
Local Subject Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
Subject Clotilda (Ship) (OCoLC)fst01663160
West Africans. (OCoLC)fst01173912
Alabama -- Mobile River. (OCoLC)fst01246316
Alabama. (OCoLC)fst01204694
Shipwrecks. (OCoLC)fst01116638
Alabama -- Mobile. (OCoLC)fst01206367
African Americans -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History.
Slavery -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons. (OCoLC)fst01120522
Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Mobile -- Biography.
Africatown (Ala.) -- History.
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Subject Slave trade. (OCoLC)fst01120405
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Subject Slave trade -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 9781982136048 (hardcover)
1982136049 (hardcover)
9781982136161 (ebook)
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