Dreams of Africa in Alabama
Book by Sylviane A. Diouf
In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last... Google Books
Originally published: 2007
Author: Sylviane A. Diouf
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It traces their brutal capture and imprisonment, the Americans who planned the illegal journey and purchase, the Middle Passage, their conditions while enslaved ...
An amazing story! Diouf shows how the African captives on the last American slave ship not only survived slavery, the civil war, and reconstruction in Alabama, ...
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This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describes their experience of ...
$32.99
This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describes their experience of ...
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This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describes their experience of ...
In contrast, Diouf's Dreams of Africa in Alabama only briefly explores the. Clotilda captives' West African origins, their forced migration to the coast at.
It demonstrates eloquently that the shipmates' secluded town inscribed in the Southern landscape their undying connection to Africa and irrepressible will to ...
Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860 under cover of night, ...
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Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860 under cover of night, ...
Dreams of Africa in Alabama is an excellent attempt to explain the founding of a New World society via Old World cultural inheritance. Diouf's model of ...