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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Tabor, Nick.     Subjects     Clotilda (Ship)     Blacks -- United States -- History.     Slavery -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.     Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.     West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.     Africatown (Ala.) -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Tabor, Nick.       by title:      Africatown : America...       by call number:      306.3620976 T114a     Search the Web     Tabor, Nick.     Clotilda (Ship)     Blacks -- United States -- History.     Slavery -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.     Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.     West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.     Africatown (Ala.) -- History.       MARC Display

Africatown : America's last slave ship and the community it created / Nick Tabor. by Tabor, Nick. St. Martin's Press, 2023. Call #: 306.3620976 T114a Subjects Clotilda (Ship)   Blacks -- United States -- History.   Slavery -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.   Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.   West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.   Africatown (Ala.) -- History. ISBN:  9781250766540 (hc.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  vi, 372 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : maps, ill. ; 25 cm. Notes:  Nick Tabor is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in New York Magazine, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Oxford American, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. 'Africatown' is his first book. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Barracoon.' That community, Africatown, has endured to the present day, and many of the community residents are the shipmates' direct descendants. After many decades of neglect and a Jim Crow legal system that targeted the area for industrialization, the community is struggling to survive. Many community members believe the pollution from the heavy industry surrounding their homes has caused a cancer epidemic among residents, and companies are eyeing even more land for development. At the same time, after the discovery of the remains of the Clotilda in the riverbed nearby, a renewed effort is underway to create a living memorial to the community and the lives of the slaves who founded it. An evocative and epic story, 'Africatown' charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants in the face of persistent racism."--From publisher. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 306.3620976 T114a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 306.3620976 T114a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Black Nonfiction 306.3620976 T114a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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