Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

Title: Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade Author: Hannah Durkin ISBN: 9780063072992 Publisher: Amistad Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1580437 Publisher Description: Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors--the last documented survivors of any slave ship--whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways. The Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on American soil, docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860--more than half a century after the passage of a federal law banning the importation of captive Africans, and nine months