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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clotilda (Ship).

Enslaved persons--Alabama--History--19th century.

Enslaved persons.

West Africans--Alabama--History--19th century.

West Africans.

Enslaved persons--Alabama--Biography.

West Africans--Alabama--Biography.

Slavery--Alabama--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Slave trade--Alabama--Mobile--History--19th century.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--United States--History--19th century.

Mobile (Ala.)--Social conditions--19th century.

Mobile (Ala.).

Mobile (Ala.)--Race relations--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Other Title:

Slave ship Clotilda and the story of the last Africans brought to America /

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, this book brings to light a little-known yet vitally important element to this troubled aspect of US history.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Known Africans Deported to Mobile on the Clotilda; 1 Mobile and the Slave Trades; 2 West African Origins; 3 Ouidah; 4 Arrival in Mobile; 5 Slavery; 6 Freedom; 7 African Town; 8 Between Two Worlds; 9 Going Back Home; Epilogue; Appendix: The Numbers of the Illegal Slave Trade; An Essay on Sources; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771267-3

0-19-972398-2

1-281-16363-5

9786611163631

0-19-534554-1

1-4294-8702-X

OCLC:

437093284

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06705 hdl