Dreams of Africa in Alabama by Diouf, Sylviane A;

The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

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Kiadó OUP USA
Megjelenés dátuma 2009. február 12.

ISBN 9780195382938
Kötéstípus Puhakötés
Terjedelem352 oldal
Méret 234x162x24 mm
Súly 535 g
Nyelv angol
Illusztrációk 16 pp halftone plates

Kategóriák

Újkor (XIX/XX. század fordulójáig) Afrika történelme Amerika történelme További könyvek a történettudomány területén

Hosszú leírás:

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda , to Africa, on a bet that he could "bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses." He won the bet.

This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describes their experience of slavery alongside American-born enslaved men and women. After emancipation, the group reunited from various plantations, bought land, and founded their own settlement, known as African Town. They ruled it according to customary African laws, spoke their own regional language and, when giving interviews, insisted that writers use their African names so that their families would know that they were still alive. The last survivor of the Clotilda died in 1935, but African Town is still home to a community of Clotilda descendants.

Dreams of Africa in Alabama is an extraordinarily well- written historical account, organized chronologically, where the reader will find horror, sorrow and courage, coupled with a sensational resilience to the harsh conditions which the African slaves endured.

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Tartalomjegyzék:

Introduction
Mobile and the Slave Trades
West African Origins
Ouidah
Arrival in Mobile
Slavery
Freedom
African Town
Between Two Worlds
Going Back Home
Epilogue
An Essay on Sources
The Illegal Slave Trade in Numbers
Bibliography