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

Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide evidence of the crime, allowing the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution. Despite numerous...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Raines, Ben (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Simon & Schuster, [2022].
Subjects:	Clotilda (Ship) Slavery > Alabama > Mobile > History > 19th century. Slave trade > Alabama > Mobile > History > 19th century. West Africans > Alabama > History > 19th century. Slaves > Alabama > Mobile > Biography. Shipwrecks > Alabama > Mobile River. African Americans > Alabama > Mobile > History. Africatown (Ala.) > History. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV). HISTORY / Africa / West. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.

Table of Contents:

The bet
The voyage of the Clotilda
The King of the Amazons
Captured
Barracoon
Into the canebreak
Five years a slave
An African town
Africatown--the fall
Finding Clotilda
Finding a future in the past
Reconciliation
Coda.