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Davis. 001558719 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bG.P. Putnam's Sons,$$c2022. 001558719 264_4 $$c©2022 001558719 300__ $$a438 pages :$$billustrations, maps ;$$c22 cm. 001558719 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001558719 336__ $$acartographic image$$bcri$$2rdacontent 001558719 336__ $$astill image$$bsti$$2rdacontent 001558719 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia 001558719 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier 001558719 385__ $$aPreteens$$2lcdgt 001558719 385__ $$aTeenagers$$2lcdgt 001558719 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 433-435). 001558719 5050_ $$aIntroduction / by Joycelyn M. Davis -- Home is where the story is -- Dreams and schemes -- Life interrupted -- Ouidah -- Voyage to America -- Mobile swamplands -- Enslaved -- When war comes to town -- The truth about freedom -- African Town -- Life is but a dream -- Author's note -- Voices -- More about the characters -- Africatown today -- Selected time line -- Glossary -- Poetry forms/styles -- Learn more about the shipmates, the Clotilda, and African Town. 001558719 520__ $$aChronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860. 001558719 520__ $$a1859. 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 001558719 520__ $$aIn 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 out to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which they'd been delivered. At the end of the Civil War, the survivors created a community for themselves they called African Town, which still exists to this day. 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