African Town
Latham, Irene2022
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In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved labourers, 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. Told in 14 distinct voices, including that of the ship that brought them to the American shores and the founder of African Town, this historical novel-in-verse recreates a pivotal moment in US and world history.
Main title:
African Town / Irene Latham & Charles Waters.
Author:
Latham, Irene, authorWaters, Charles, 1973-, author
Imprint:
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2022.
Collation:
448 pages ; 21 cm
Audience:
Adolescent.
ISBN:
9780593322888 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
LC class:
PZ7.5.L39
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3057123