Africatown: Americas Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created Tabor Nick
Africatown: Americas Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created Tabor Nick An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought…
Specifikacia Africatown: Americas Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created Tabor Nick
Africatown: Americas Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created Tabor Nick
An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution.In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. from West Africa.
Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon.That community, Africatown, has endured to the present day, and many of the community residents are the shipmates' direct
The Last Ship
The Slave Ship Rediker Marcus
Brazil and the Americas
God and the LGBT Community