Africatown America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created by Nick Tabor
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Africatown America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created by Nick Tabor | 13.33 MB
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Title: Africatown
Author: Nick Tabor
Year: N/A
Description:
An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution.
In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon.
That community, Africatown, has endured to the present day, and many of the community residents are the shipmates' direct descendants. After many decades of neglect and a Jim Crow legal system that targeted the area for...
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An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution.
In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon.
That community, Africatown, has endured to the present day, and many of the community residents are the shipmates' direct descendants. After many decades of neglect and a Jim Crow legal system that targeted the area for...
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/dade941c5d87c7b469ad5f7ab3d029d7/Africatown__America's_Last_Slave_Ship_and_the_Community_It_Created_by_Nick_Tabor_.rar
https://uploadgig.com/file/download/5B2e96E14a696959/Africatown__America%27s_Last_Slave_Ship_and_the_Community_It_Created_by_Nick_Tabor_.rar
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