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Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Hannah Durkin reconstructs the lives of people kidnapped from Africa aboard the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring captives to the United States. Working from archival and oral histories, she follows the survivors after their arrival in Alabama and the community they built after emancipation. Their accounts reveal the lasting human history of the Atlantic slave trade.

Publisher: William Collins
Publication date: 2024-04-11
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780008446512

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