Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Durkin, Hannah, author.

Title:

The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade / Hannah Durkin.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]

Description:

xix, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Summary:

"Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways"-- Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

Clotilda (Ship)

Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Biography.

African Americans -- Alabama -- Biography.

Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.

Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.

Human trafficking -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.

Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century.

Africatown (Ala.) -- Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Other Title:

Lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Kidnap -- The conspiracy -- The coast -- The sea -- Arrival -- The river -- The Black Belt -- The capital -- African Town -- Reunion -- Burials -- Gee's Bend -- Cocolocco -- The courthouse.

LCCN:

2023040988

ISBN:

9780063072992

0063072998

Other Number:

1396082550

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

1046799

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

306.362 Durkin