By Sylviane A. Diouf
This booklet reconstructs the lives of the folks in West Africa, recounts their catch and passage within the slave pen in Ouidah, and describes their event of slavery along American-born enslaved women and men. After emancipation, the crowd reunited from quite a few plantations, obtained land, and based their very own cost, referred to as African city. They governed it based on accepted African legislation, spoke their very own neighborhood language and, while giving interviews, insisted that writers use their African names in order that their households might recognize that they have been nonetheless alive.
The final survivor of the Clotilda died in 1935, yet African city remains to be domestic to a neighborhood of Clotilda descendants. The booklet of Dreams of Africa in Alabama marks the 2 hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the yankee historic organization (2007)
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