Joycelyn M. Davis
1) African Town
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860
In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled...