Dreams of Africa in Alabama : the slave ship Clotilda and the story of the last Africans brought to America /

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Author / Creator:	Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952- author.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Language:	English
Series:	ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject:	Clotilda (Ship) Clotilda (Ship) Slaves -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century. West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century. Slaves -- Alabama -- Biography. West Africans -- Alabama -- Biography. Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century. Slave trade -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century. Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Race relations. Slave trade. Slavery. Slaves. Social conditions West Africans. Mobile (Ala.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Mobile (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century. Alabama. Alabama -- Mobile. United States. Electronic books. Biographies. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11154738

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ISBN:	9780195345544 0195345541 9780195311044 0195311043 0199723982 9780199723980 1281163635 9781281163639 9786611163631 6611163638 142948702X 9781429487023
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-328) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary:	In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda, to Africa, on a bet that he could ""bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses."" He won the bet. This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts t.
Other form:	Print version: Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952- Dreams of Africa in Alabama. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780195311044

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