Dreams of Africa in Alabama
The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
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Word Count
104,000 words, Guess
Page Count
416 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7392873M
- ISBN-139780195311044
- ISBN-100195311043
- OCLC Control Number77572723
- Library of Congress Control Number2006053153
and 2 more
- LibraryThing2747472
- Goodreads222018
Classifications
- LCCE445.A3D56 2007
Description
Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860 under cover of night, recounting their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describing their experience of slavery alongside American-born enslaved men and women. After emancipation, the group reunited from various plantations, bought land, and founded their own settlement, known as African Town. They ruled it according to customary African laws, spoke their own regional language and, when giving interviews, insisted that writers use their African names so that their families would know that they were still alive. African Town is still home to a community of Clotilda descendants. --from publisher description
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