| Description |
1 online resource (x, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Contents |
Known Africans deported to Mobile on the Clotilda -- Mobile and the slave trades -- West African origins -- Ouidah -- Arrival in Mobile -- Slavery -- Freedom -- African towns -- Between two worlds -- Going back home |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-328) and index |
| Notes |
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 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Clotilda (Ship)
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Clotilda (Ship) fast |
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Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
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West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
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Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Biography
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West Africans -- Alabama -- Biography
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Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
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Slave trade -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century
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Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
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Race relations
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Slave trade
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Slavery
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Enslaved persons
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Social conditions
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West Africans
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Mobile (Ala.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Mobile (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
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Alabama
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Alabama -- Mobile
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United States
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195345544 |
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0195345541 |
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9780195311044 |
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0195311043 |
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0199723982 |
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9780199723980 |
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1281163635 |
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9781281163639 |
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9786611163631 |
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6611163638 |
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142948702X |
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9781429487023 |
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