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Raines, Ben, author.

Title The last slave ship : the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning / Ben Raines.

Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Info.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2169395~S1

Location	Call No.	Status
95th Street Adult Nonfiction	306.362 RAI	AVAILABLE
Nichols Adult Nonfiction	306.362 RAI	AVAILABLE

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Description	xvii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Clotilda (Ship)
	Slavery -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
	Slave trade -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
	West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
	Slaves -- Alabama -- Mobile -- Biography.
	Shipwrecks -- Alabama -- Mobile River.
	African Americans -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History.
	Africatown (Ala.) -- History.
ISBN	9781982136048 (hardcover)

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