The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade
(2024)
By:
Durkin, Hannah
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
306.362097/DURKIN,H
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xix, 412 pages, 16 pages unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780063072992, 0063072998 :, 0063072998, 9780063072992
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Maps -- The Clotilda Africans -- A note on the spelling of names -- Kidnap -- The conpiracy -- The coast -- The sea -- Arrival -- the river -- The black belt -- The capital -- African town -- Reunion -- Burials -- Gee's bend -- Cocolocco -- The courthouse
"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"--