African Town : inspired by the true story of the last American slave slip
Call Number
- FICTION LATH TEEN (CEN, OSH, POW)
Publication Information
New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2022]
Physical Description
438 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Audience
Grades 7-9. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Summary
Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.
1859. The transatlantic slave trade has been banned for more than fifty years, and the South is facing the threat of a civil war. Timothy Maeher resents the government interference in his right to make a living. Making a bet that he can smuggle enslaved Africans into the United States without being caught, he commissions the Clotilda, and brings back 110 African captives. Among them are Abilè, Gumpa, Kêhounco, Kossola, and Kupolee, who survive the voyage and arrive in Alabama still clinging to the hope of one day returning home. -- adapted from jacket