Survivors : the lost stories of the last captives of the Atlantic slave trade
Durkin, Hannah2024
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In July 1860, 52 years after a federal law banning the importation of slaves to the country and on the eve of the American Civil War, a slave ship docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama. Concealed in its hold were 108 surviving captives from West Africa, who had been kidnapped from their homes and transported in appalling conditions across the Atlantic. The Clotilda would be the last slave ship to land on US soil and thus serve as the final act of a terrible, hugely significant period in world history. In this extraordinary work of historical scholarship, Hannah Durkin tells the story of these survivors from the perspective of those enslaved. And their stories are remarkable, conveying over the course of a single lifetime the horrors of African kidnap, the Middle Passage, enslavement in the U.S. South, freedom, segregation, and even the activist beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Author:
Durkin, Hannah, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2024.
Collation:
xix, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780008446512 (hbk)
Dewey class:
306.3620976109034306.362306.362097306.36209
LC class:
E445.A3
Local class:
306.362
Language:
English
Subject:
Clotilda (Ship)Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- History -- 19th centuryEnslaved persons -- Alabama -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryWest Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th centuryWest Africans -- Alabama -- Social conditions -- 19th centurySocietyAfrican Americans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th centuryAfrican Americans -- Alabama -- Social conditions -- 19th century
BRN:
3639937
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