The last slave ship : the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning
(2022)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
306.362097/RAINES,B

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 306.362097/RAINES,B Available

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."--