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100 1  Latham, Irene,|eauthor. 
245 10 African Town :|binspired by the true story of the last 
       American slave ship /|cIrene Latham & Charles Waters ; 
       introduction by Joycelyn M. Davis, descendant of Clotilda 
       Survivors. 
264  1 New York :|bG.P. Putnam's Sons,|c2022. 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    409 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    cartographic image|bcri|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
385    Preteens|2lcdgt 
385    Teenagers|2lcdgt 
500    500 Nutmeg Book Award nominee, Grade 7-8 Middle School, 
       2025. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-435). 
505 0  Introduction / by Joycelyn M. Davis -- Home is where the 
       story is -- Dreams and schemes -- Life interrupted -- 
       Ouidah -- Voyage to America -- Mobile swamplands -- 
       Enslaved -- When war comes to town -- The truth about 
       freedom -- African Town -- Life is but a dream -- Author's
       note -- Voices -- More about the characters -- Africatown 
       today -- Selected time line -- Glossary -- Poetry forms/
       styles -- Learn more about the shipmates, the Clotilda, 
       and African Town. 
520    Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought 
       illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860. 
520    1859. The transatlantic slave trade has been banned for 
       more than fifty years, and the South is facing the threat 
       of a civil war. Timothy Maeher resents the government 
       interference in his right to make a living. Making a bet 
       that he can smuggle enslaved Africans into the United 
       States without being caught, he commissions the Clotilda, 
       and brings back 110 African captives. Among them are Abilè
       , Gumpa, Kêhounco, Kossola, and Kupolee, who survive the 
       voyage and arrive in Alabama still clinging to the hope of
       one day returning home. -- adapted from jacket 
520    In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the 
       importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and 
       children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought 
       to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their 
       journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being 
       hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before 
       being secretly parceled out to various plantations, where 
       they made desperate attempts to maintain both their 
       culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which 
       they'd been delivered. At the end of the Civil War, the 
       survivors created a community for themselves they called 
       African Town, which still exists to this day. Told in 14 
       distinct voices, including that of the ship that brought 
       them to the American shores and the founder of African 
       Town, this powerfully affecting historical novel-in-verse 
       recreates a pivotal moment in US and world history, the 
       impacts of which we still feel today. 
521    Ages 14-18.|bG.P. Putnam's Sons. 
521    Grades 9-12.|bG.P. Putnam's Sons. 
586    Winner of the 2023 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical 
       Fiction. 
610 20 Clotilda (Ship)|vFiction. 
610 21 Clotilda (Ship)|vFiction. 
610 27 Clotilda (Ship)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01663160 
648  7 1800-1899|2fast 
650  0 Novels in verse. 
650  0 Black people|zAfrica|vFiction. 
650  1 Black people|zAfrica|vFiction. 
650  1 Novels in verse. 
650  7 Novels in verse|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01039786 
650  7 YOUNG ADULT FICTION|xHistorical|zUnited States|xCivil War 
       Period (1850-1877)|2bisacsh 
650  7 Black people|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00833880 
650  7 YOUNG ADULT FICTION|xPeople & Places|zUnited States
       |xAfrican American & Black.|2bisacsh 
650  7 YOUNG ADULT FICTION|xNovels in Verse.|2bisacsh 
650  9 Slave trade|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01120405 
650  9 Slave trade|vFiction. 
651  0 Africatown (Ala.)|xHistory|y19th century|vFiction. 
651  0 Africa|vFiction. 
651  1 Africa|vFiction. 
651  7 Africa|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01239509 
655  0 Young adult fiction. 
655  7 Fiction|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787 
655  7 Novels in verse.|2lcgft 
655  7 Novels in verse|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01921724 
655  7 Historical fiction|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01726640 
655  7 Young adult works|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01726790 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 History|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd 
690  7 Trafficking in enslaved persons|vFiction.|2local DEI term 
700 1  Waters, Charles,|d1973-|eauthor. 
700 1  Davis, Joycelyn M.,|ewriter of introduction. 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aLatham, Irene.|tAfrican Town.|dNew York
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