Dreams of Africa in Alabama :: the slave ship Clotilda and the story of the last Africans brought to America /

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 a...

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1. Verfasser: Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Zusammenfassung: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 t.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-328) and index.
ISBN:9780199723980
0199723982

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