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Author : Deborah Escobar
Release : 2001
Genre : Key West Region (Fla.)
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Book Synopsis A Slave Ship Speaks by : Deborah Escobar
Download or read book A Slave Ship Speaks written by Deborah Escobar. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael H. Cottman
Release : 1999
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie by : Michael H. Cottman
Download or read book The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie written by Michael H. Cottman. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers an account of the slave ship Henrietta Marie and its role in his ancestors' history.
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Release : 1995
Genre : Key West Region (Fla.)
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Author : Michael Cottman
Release : 2017-01-03
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Synopsis Shackles From the Deep by : Michael Cottman
Download or read book Shackles From the Deep written by Michael Cottman. This book was released on 2017-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pile of lime-encrusted shackles discovered on the seafloor in the remains of a ship called the Henrietta Marie, lands Michael Cottman, a Washington, D.C.-based journalist and avid scuba diver, in the middle of an amazing journey that stretches across three continents, from foundries and tombs in England, to slave ports on the shores of West Africa, to present-day Caribbean plantations. This is more than just the story of one ship – it's the untold story of millions of people taken as captives to the New World. Told from the author's perspective, this book introduces young readers to the wonders of diving, detective work, and discovery, while shedding light on the history of slavery.
Author : Ben Raines
Release : 2023-01-24
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Last Slave Ship by : Ben Raines
Download or read book The Last Slave Ship written by Ben Raines. This book was released on 2023-01-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “enlightening” (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors’ founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains. Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution. Despite numerous efforts to find the sunken wreck, Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160 years. But in 2019, journalist Ben Raines made international news when he successfully concluded his obsessive quest through the swamps of Alabama to uncover one of our nation’s most important historical artifacts. Traveling from Alabama to the ancient African kingdom of Dahomey in modern-day Benin, Raines recounts the ship’s perilous journey, the story of its rediscovery, and its complex legacy. Against all odds, Africatown, the Alabama community founded by the captives of the Clotilda, prospered in the Jim Crow South. Zora Neale Hurston visited in 1927 to interview Cudjo Lewis, telling the story of his enslavement in the New York Times bestseller Barracoon. And yet the haunting memory of bondage has been passed on through generations. Clotilda is a ghost haunting three communities—the descendants of those transported into slavery, the descendants of their fellow Africans who sold them, and the descendants of their fellow American enslavers. This connection binds these groups together to this day. At the turn of the century, descendants of the captain who financed the Clotilda’s journey lived nearby—where, as significant players in the local real estate market, they disenfranchised and impoverished residents of Africatown. From these parallel stories emerges a profound depiction of America as it struggles to grapple with the traumatic past of slavery and the ways in which racial oppression continues to this day. And yet, at its heart, The Last Slave Ship remains optimistic—an epic tale of one community’s triumphs over great adversity and a celebration of the power of human curiosity to uncover the truth about our past and heal its wounds.
