Dreams of Africa in Alabama : the slave ship Clotilda and the story of the last Africans brought to America /

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Clotilda (Ship)
1800-1899
Enslaved persons > Alabama > History > 19th century.
West Africans > Alabama > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Alabama > Biography.
West Africans > Alabama > Biography.
Slavery > Alabama > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > Alabama > Mobile > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > United States > History > 19th century.
Esclaves > Alabama > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Africains de l'Ouest > Alabama > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Africains de l'Ouest > Alabama > Biographies.
Esclaves > Commerce > Alabama > Mobile > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Esclaves > Commerce > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Race relations.
Slave trade.
Slavery.
Enslaved persons.
Social conditions
West Africans.
Mobile (Ala.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Mobile (Ala.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Alabama.
Alabama > Mobile.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda, to Africa, on a bet that he could ""bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses."" He won the bet. This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts t.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-328) and index.
ISBN:9780195345544
0195345541
9780195311044
0195311043
0199723982
9780199723980
1281163635
9781281163639
9786611163631
6611163638
142948702X
9781429487023

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