African Town
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African Town

By Latham, Irene, author.
Waters, Charles, 1973- author.

Genre Historical fiction.

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
Call #
YA Latham
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.
Genre/Form
Historical fiction.
Novels in verse

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