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The “enlightening” (The Guardian) 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.Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution. Despite numerous efforts to find the sunken wreck, Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160 years. But in 2019, journalist Ben Raines made international news when he successfully concluded his obsessive quest through the swamps of Alabama to uncover one of our nation’s most important historical artifacts. Traveling from Alabama to the ancient African kingdom of Dahomey in modern-day Benin, Raines recounts the ship’s perilous journey, the story of its rediscovery, and its complex legacy. Against all odds, Africatown, the Alabama community founded by the captives of the Clotilda, prospered in the Jim Crow South. Zora Neale Hurston visited in 1927 to interview Cudjo Lewis, telling the story of his enslavement in the New York Times bestseller Barracoon. And yet the haunting memory of bondage has been passed on through generations. Clotilda is a ghost haunting three communities—the descendants of those transported into slavery, the descendants of their fellow Africans who sold them, and the descendants of their fellow American enslavers. This connection binds these groups together to this day. At the turn of the century, descendants of the captain who financed the Clotilda’s journey lived nearby—where, as significant players in the local real estate market, they disenfranchised and impoverished residents of Africatown. From these parallel stories emerges a profound depiction of America as it struggles to grapple with the traumatic past of slavery and the ways in which racial oppression continues to this day. And yet, at its heart, The Last Slave Ship remains optimistic—an epic tale of one community’s triumphs over great adversity and a celebration of the power of human curiosity to uncover the truth about our past and heal its wounds.

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Author : Ben Raines
★★★★☆ 4.6 from 5 stars (754 Reviews)
Langue : English
ISBN-10 : 1982136154
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This book is a must read for all students of African American history and everyone interested in the passage of African slaves and their final voyage to the America. Only by reading this book, we can fully understand the role of the Africans and the Slave transporters and traders played in this human tragedy of America's slave past. This book illustrate the need for this story to required reading for all. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning Online eBook livre online I don’t know how I ever missed this in the news. It’s a riveting, important story, and it gave me a much fuller understanding of slavery’s genesis and impacts. I also liked the author’s last chapter(s) focusing on reconciliation as the way to heal both in Africa and in this country. Well-done. PDF The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning download online free So the book is somewhat roughly written, but the story and history shine through and make the people live again. It was very moving and emotional...as the decendant of Mississippi slave owners who freed their slaves, long before the Civil War, I grew up with stories from both sides of that event, but never really thought about how many people were affected by both the slavery AND the freeing. This story has really made me start to think and wonder what happened, after my ancestors moved west, to the ones left behind.Thank you. ePUB The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning ebook gratuito I found this book to bring a mix of emotions. What an incredible story and great research in sharing what could have been complete loss of history. Thank you for the work to get this story brought back to life... (PDF) Downloads The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning I had never heard of the Clotulda, but am so grateful to have read its story. I loved the reconciliations at the end, of descents of slaves meeting with a Descendent of the boat's captain. Now I am anxious to watch the documentary, Descendent, on Netflix