Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created ~ SIGNED FIRST/FIRST
by Tabor, Nick
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1250766540
- ISBN 13
- 9781250766540
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Daphne, Alabama, United States
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FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally signed by the author directly to the full title page. Not a tip in. Not a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request.
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 industrialization, the community is struggling to survive. Many community members believe the pollution from the heavy industry surrounding their homes has caused a cancer epidemic among residents, and companies are eyeing even more land for development.
At the same time, after the discovery of the remains of the Clotilda in the riverbed nearby, a renewed effort is underway to create a living memorial to the community and the lives of the slaves who founded it.
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- Title
- Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created ~ SIGNED FIRST/FIRST
- Author
- Tabor, Nick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Hardcover Signed
- ISBN 10
- 1250766540
- ISBN 13
- 9781250766540
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- signed; collectible; autographed, US History, slave trade, african american voices, racial equity, alabama, Jim Crow, Clotilda
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