Dreams of Africa in Alabama; The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
Sylviane A. Diouf, 2007
Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association (2007)
Description
In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slavery trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as enslaved.