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Author Raines, Ben.
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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Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xvii, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-272) and index.
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.
Subject Clotilda (Ship)
Slave ships -- Alabama.
Shipwrecks -- Alabama -- Mobile River.
Slave trade -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History.
Africatown (Ala.) -- History.
Added Title True story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning
ISBN 9781982136048 hardcover
1982136049 hardcover
9781982136161 electronic book


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