The last slave ship : the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning
(2022)
By:
Raines, Ben
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
306.362097/RAINES,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022
EDITION
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781982136048, 1982136049 :, 1982136049, 9781982136048
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
"The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day-by the journalist who discovered the ship's remains."--