
Book
African Town
(based on Goodreads ratings)Audience Teens 14-17 years
Published [2022] by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
ISBN 9780593322888
Bib Id 1158940
Copyright 2022
Description 438 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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cam a22 8i 4500
LCCN
2021-041737
ISBN
9780593322888 (hardcover) $19.00
0593322886
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YA Latham
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Title
African Town
Publication Information
[2022] by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York :
Copyright Date
©2022
Description
438 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435).
Summary
In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled out to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which they'd been delivered. At the end of the Civil War, the survivors created a community for themselves they called African Town, which still exists to this day. Told in 14 distinct voices, including that of the ship that brought them to the American shores and the founder of African Town, this powerfully affecting historical novel-in-verse recreates a pivotal moment in US and world history, the impacts of which we still feel today.
Audience
Ages 12+.
Grades 7-9.
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Genre/Form
Historical fiction.
Novels in verse
Novels in verse
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