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

Author

Ben Raines

Call Number

• 306.362 R155 (CEN)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.

Physical Description

xvii, 283 pages ; 24 cm

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"--

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.