The Last Slave Ship

The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

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<b>The “enlightening” (<i>The Guardian</i>) 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.</b><br><br>Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the <i>Clotilda </i>became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution. Despite numerous efforts to find the sunken wreck, <i>Clotilda</i> 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. <br> <br>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 <i>Clotilda</i>, prospered in the Jim Crow South. Zora Neale Hurston visited in 1927 to interview Cudjo Lewis, telling the story of his enslavement in the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>Barracoon</i>. And yet the haunting memory of bondage has been passed on through generations. <i>Clotilda</i> 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 fellow American enslavers. This connection binds these groups together to this day. At the turn of the century, descendants of the captain who financed the <i>Clotilda</i>’s journey lived nearby—where, as significant players in the local real estate market, they disenfranchised and impoverished residents of Africatown.<br> <br>From these parallel stories emerges a

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EAN

9781982136154

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

208 x 136 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Simon & Schuster