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The Last Slave Ship - The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning (Hardcover)
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The Last Slave Ship - The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning (Hardcover)
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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. Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed,
the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved
Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on
arrival to hide evidence of the crime, allowing the wealthy
perpetrators to escape prosecution. Despite numerous efforts to
find the sunken wreck, Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160
years. But in 2019, journalist Ben Raines made international news
when he successfully concluded his obsessive quest through the
swamps of Alabama to uncover one of our nation's most important
historical artifacts. Traveling from Alabama to the ancient African
kingdom of Dahomey in modern-day Benin, Raines recounts the ship's
perilous journey, the story of its rediscovery, and its complex
legacy. Against all odds, Africatown, the Alabama community founded
by the captives of the Clotilda, prospered in the Jim Crow South.
Zora Neale Hurston visited in 1927 to interview Cudjo Lewis,
telling the story of his enslavement in the New York Times
bestseller Barracoon. And yet the haunting memory of bondage has
been passed on through generations. Clotilda is a ghost haunting
three communities-the descendants of those transported into
slavery, the descendants of their fellow Africans who sold them,
and the descendants of their American enslavers. This connection
binds these groups together to this day. At the turn of the
century, descendants of the captain who financed the Clotilda's
journey lived nearby-where, as significant players in the local
real estate market, they disenfranchised and impoverished residents
of Africatown. From these parallel stories emerges a profound
depiction of America as it struggles to grapple with the traumatic
past of slavery and the ways in which racial oppression continue to
this day. And yet, at its heart, The Last Slave Ship remains
optimistic - an epic tale of one community's triumphs over great
adversity and a celebration of the power of human curiosity to
uncover the truth about our past and heal its wounds.
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