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Author : Charles Waters
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-01-04
African Town written by Charles Waters and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-04 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse. Cover may vary. 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.
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Author : Fiona MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Spectacular Visual Guides
Release Date : 2015-09-03
African Town written by Fiona MacDonald and has been published by Spectacular Visual Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-03 with Africa categories.
Take an incredible tour through an African Town, exploring its relevance to the people who built it and the lives that they lead. Stunning cut-away illustrations and a clear, concise writing style help lead the reader through the often complex social and historical context
Dreams Of Africa In Alabama
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Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-02-18
Dreams Of Africa In Alabama written by Sylviane A. Diouf and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-18 with Social Science categories.
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 recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda , to Africa, on a bet that he could "bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses." He won the bet. 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 slavery alongside American-born enslaved men and women. After emancipation, the group reunited from various plantations, bought land, and founded their own settlement, known as African Town. They ruled it according to customary African laws, spoke their own regional language and, when giving interviews, insisted that writers use their African names so that their families would know that they were still alive. The last survivor of the Clotilda died in 1935, but African Town is still home to a community of Clotilda descendants. The publication of Dreams of Africa in Alabama marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association (2007)
An Ancient African Town
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Author : Fiona MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Release Date : 1999-03-01
An Ancient African Town written by Fiona MacDonald and has been published by Franklin Watts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A tour of Benin City, a West African town and capital of the Edo Empire, located in present-day Nigeria.
The Story Of An African City
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Author : Joseph Forsyth Ingram
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Story Of An African City written by Joseph Forsyth Ingram and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Pietermaritzburg categories.
On the rise and progress of Maritzburg.
The African City
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Author : Bill Freund
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-05
The African City written by Bill Freund and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-05 with History categories.
This book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from factual information and rich description material culled from many sources, it looks at many issues from why urban life emerged in the first place to how present-day African cities cope in difficult times. Instead of seeing towns and cities as somehow extraneous to the real Africa, it views them as an inherent part of developing Africa, indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial and emphasizes the extent to which the future of African society and African culture will likely be played out mostly in cities. The book is written to appeal to students of history but equally to geographers, planners, sociologists and development specialists interested in urban problems.
Popular Government In An African Town Kita Mali
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Author : Nicholas S. Hopkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Popular Government In An African Town Kita Mali written by Nicholas S. Hopkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Kita (Kayes, Mali) categories.
Nourishing Life
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Author : Arianna Huhn
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2020-09-10
Nourishing Life written by Arianna Huhn and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-10 with Cooking categories.
In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations. Embedded within central themes in the study of Africa south of the Sahara, the volume combines insights from philosophy and food studies to find textured layers of meaning in a seemingly simple cuisine.
Slavery And The Birth Of An African City
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Author : Kristin Mann
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2007-09-26
Slavery And The Birth Of An African City written by Kristin Mann and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-26 with History categories.
As the slave trade entered its last, illegal phase in the 19th century, the town of Lagos on West Africa's Bight of Benin became one of the most important port cities north of the equator. Slavery and the Birth of an African City explores the reasons for Lagos's sudden rise to power. By linking the histories of international slave markets to those of the regional suppliers and slave traders, Kristin Mann shows how the African slave trade forever altered the destiny of the tiny kingdom of Lagos. This magisterial work uncovers the relationship between African slavery and the growth of one of Africa's most vibrant cities.
Women And Islamic Revival In A West African Town
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Author : Adeline Masquelier
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-02
Women And Islamic Revival In A West African Town written by Adeline Masquelier and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-02 with Religion categories.
In the small town of Dogondoutchi, Niger, Malam Awal, a charismatic Sufi preacher, was recruited by local Muslim leaders to denounce the practices of reformist Muslims. Malam Awal's message has been viewed as a mixed blessing by Muslim women who have seen new definitions of Islam and Muslim practice impact their place and role in society. This study follows the career of Malam Awal and documents the engagement of women in the religious debates that are refashioning their everyday lives. Adeline Masquelier reveals how these women have had to define Islam on their own terms, especially as a practice that governs education, participation in prayer, domestic activities, wedding customs, and who wears the veil and how. Masquelier's richly detailed narrative presents new understandings of what it means to be a Muslim woman in Africa today.