Alabama In Africa
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Alabama In Africa
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Author : Andrew Zimmerman
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-27
Alabama In Africa written by Andrew Zimmerman and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-27 with History categories.
This work recounts an expedition sent by Tuskegee Institute to transform the German colony of Togo, West Africa, into a cotton economy like the American South. This book reveals a transnational politics of labour, sexuality, and race invisible to earlier national, imperial, and comparative historical perspectives.
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)
A Scholarly Analysis Of Andrew Zimmerman S Alabama In Africa A Major Work In Transnational History
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Author : Robert Jefferson Norrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
A Scholarly Analysis Of Andrew Zimmerman S Alabama In Africa A Major Work In Transnational History written by Robert Jefferson Norrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Germany categories.
This book examines "Alabama in Africa" with a critical analysis contending that Zimmerman is wrong on virtually all his major claims and often relies on shallow or tendentious argument.
African Town
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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.
Dreams Of Africa In Alabama
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Author : Sylviane Anna Diouf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Dreams Of Africa In Alabama written by Sylviane Anna Diouf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Enslaved persons categories.
Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, this book brings to light a little-known yet vitally important element to this troubled aspect of US history.
The Last Slave Ship
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Author : Ben Raines
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-01-24
The Last Slave Ship written by Ben Raines and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-24 with History categories.
The “enlightening” (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors’ founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains. Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution. Despite numerous efforts to find the sunken wreck, Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160 years. But in 2019, journalist Ben Raines made international news when he successfully concluded his obsessive quest through the swamps of Alabama to uncover one of our nation’s most important historical artifacts. Traveling from Alabama to the ancient African kingdom of Dahomey in modern-day Benin, Raines recounts the ship’s perilous journey, the story of its rediscovery, and its complex legacy. Against all odds, Africatown, the Alabama community founded by the captives of the Clotilda, prospered in the Jim Crow South. Zora Neale Hurston visited in 1927 to interview Cudjo Lewis, telling the story of his enslavement in the New York Times bestseller Barracoon. And yet the haunting memory of bondage has been passed on through generations. Clotilda is a ghost haunting three communities—the descendants of those transported into slavery, the descendants of their fellow Africans who sold them, and the descendants of their fellow American enslavers. This connection binds these groups together to this day. At the turn of the century, descendants of the captain who financed the Clotilda’s journey lived nearby—where, as significant players in the local real estate market, they disenfranchised and impoverished residents of Africatown. From these parallel stories emerges a profound depiction of America as it struggles to grapple with the traumatic past of slavery and the ways in which racial oppression continues to this day. And yet, at its heart, The Last Slave Ship remains optimistic—an epic tale of one community’s triumphs over great adversity and a celebration of the power of human curiosity to uncover the truth about our past and heal its wounds.
Crosscurrents Of Culture
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Author : Manuel Jordán
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Crosscurrents Of Culture written by Manuel Jordán and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Art categories.
The Alabama Knights Of Pythias Of North America South America Europe Asia Africa And Australia
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Author : Marilyn T. Peebles
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2012-08-16
The Alabama Knights Of Pythias Of North America South America Europe Asia Africa And Australia written by Marilyn T. Peebles and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-16 with History categories.
The Knights of Pythias fraternal organization was founded in 1865 by an Act of Congress. When African American men were denied membership, they created their own organization in Vicksburg, MS, in 1880. Its founder, Thomas Stringer, believed that fraternal organizations could provide the black community with business networks, economic safety nets, and political experience at a time when Jim Crow laws were being constructed all around them. In Birmingham, Alabama, these Pythians became the cornerstone of an African American business community that included the first black-owned and operated bank in the state. They provided burial, life, and disability insurance for members and became a source of civic pride and racial solidarity. When their right to exist was challenged, they took the case to the Supreme Court in 1912 and won. This strategy would be used decades later in Brown v. Board of Education.
We Found Africa In Alabama
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Author : MR Cleon Joseph Jones M Ed
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-12-24
We Found Africa In Alabama written by MR Cleon Joseph Jones M Ed and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-24 with categories.
This book is an exciting take of how Ancient Africans from the Malian Empire traveled to the Gulf Coast of America in 1312 to find long lost relatives. This is based on true events according to most historians. This story is a great education tool of imagination that emphasizes learning, history, peace, and unity.
Beyond The Diversity
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Author : André EKAMA
language : en
Publisher: BookRix
Release Date : 2014-08-15
Beyond The Diversity written by André EKAMA and has been published by BookRix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with Fiction categories.
Is there really a difference in the cultures of black African and black American? This is the question that comes to mind when you go through "Beyond the Diversity ". The main characters, Kediro;an African,and Biountya; a black American, met and fell in love. Each of them wanted to make use of the relationship to know the culture and tradition of the other. If Kediro finally fulfils his dream of getting to America, it is thanks to Biountya. She also would love to visit Africa and engage deeply in the traditions of her ancestors. The two of them live in Germany precisely in kumental where Biountya is an American military nurse and kediro is struggling in between jobs for survival. For him, he saw America as a land of glory where he would love to reside in and he became happier when he meets someone from there who could use her influence to open the doors of his dream to him. They get married in Alabama in America where she originates but she still plans on getting back to kumental. Is one part of kediro's dreams shattered? Biountya' s family also wanted to create ties with kediro's family in Africa. They really longed to travel one day to Africa to meet their in- laws. This obligation on their relationship, will permit the black American family to go and visit Africa where they have their ancestral roots. This is a mission that Kediro has to accomplish, but he has not been home for quite a long time and at times sees it as full of insecurity. Will he present the realities of his homeland to them or will he have a complex and show only the beautiful places? Biountya has no problem, she only wants to love the culture and country of his husband ....