The Last Voyage Of The Clotilda The True Story Of The Last Slave Ship Voyage 1914
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The Last Voyage Of The Clotilda The True Story Of The Last Slave Ship Voyage 1914
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Author : Emma Langdon Roche
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-29
The Last Voyage Of The Clotilda The True Story Of The Last Slave Ship Voyage 1914 written by Emma Langdon Roche and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-29 with categories.
"Roche published the first account of the last slave ship to enter the United States....She was the artist/writer daughter of a prominent white family here. She spent a great deal of time interviewing the people who had been illegally brought into South Alabama to be the slaves of several local men." -Michael Thomason, PhD, Lagniappe Weekly In 1914 Emma Langdon Roche (1878-1945) published the book "Historic Sketches of the South," which book included several chapters on the last voyage of the schooner Clotilda which was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States. It is these chapters on the Clotilda, comprising about 25 pages, which have been republished here for the convenience of the interested reader. In July 1860, the schooner Clotilda, under the command of Captain William Foster and carrying a cargo of 110 enslaved Africans, arrived in Mobile Bay. Captain Foster was working for Timothy Meaher, a wealthy Mobile shipyard owner and steamboat captain, who had built Clotilda in 1856 for the lumber trade. Meaher was said to have wagered some "Northern gentlemen" from New England, who likely provided the financing for the illegal venture, that he could successfully smuggle slaves into the US despite the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. Regarding the slaves comprising the cargo, Roche notes: "THE slaves who constituted the Clotilde's cargo and who have become historic by being the last brought into the United States were captured by Dahomey's warriors and Amazons on one of their cruel excursions. For many years the tribe of Dahomey had been a scourge to the weaker and more peaceable tribes whose domains lay near the Gold Coast or in the interior away from the coast of Guinea."
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.
Clotilda
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Author : James P. Delgado
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2023-03-07
Clotilda written by James P. Delgado and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-07 with History categories.
"The book documents the maritime history and the 2018/2019 archaeological fieldwork and laboratory and historical research to identify the wreck of notorious schooner Clotilda in Mobile Bay. Clotilda was owned by Alabama businessman Thomas Meaher, who, on a dare, equipped it to carry captured Africans from what is now Benin and bring them to Alabama in 1860, some fifty years after the import of the enslaved was banned. The boat carried perhaps 110 Africans, and, on approaching Mobile Bay, the captives were unloaded and dispersed by river steamer/s to plantations upriver. To hide the evidence, Clotilda was set afire and sunk. Apparently, the site of the wreck was an open secret but lost from memory for a time. Various surveys through the years failed to locate the ship. In 2018, Al.com reporter Ben Raines identified a shipwreck near Twelvemile Island, and the story attracted international attention. Researcher partners, including Delgado and coauthors in the crew, determined that this was not the Clotilda. In 2019, on another investigative mission to locate the Clotilda, Delgado and crew compared the remains of a schooner and determined that it was the Clotilda. The Alabama Historical Commission and the descendent community of Africatown, where survivors of the Clotilda made their lives post-Emancipation, are making plans for commemoration of the site and the remains of the ship, if it is possible to salvage and preserve out of water. The book takes two tacks. First it serves as a nautical biography of Clotilda. After reviewing the maritime trade in and out of Mobile Bay, it places the Clotilda within the larger landscape of American and Gulf of Mexico schooners and covers its career before being used as a slave ship. Delgado et al. reconstruct Clotilda's likely appearance and characteristics. The second tack is the archaeological assessment of the wreck. The book also places the wreck within the context of a ship's graveyard in a "back water" of the Mobile River. Delgado et al. discuss the various searches for Clotilda. Detailing of the forensic and other analyses shows how those involved concluded that this wreck was indeed the Clotilda"--
The Last Voyage Of The Lusitania
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Author : Adolph A. Hoehling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
The Last Voyage Of The Lusitania written by Adolph A. Hoehling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
The Wanderer
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Author : Erik Calonius
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2007-04-01
The Wanderer written by Erik Calonius and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with History categories.
On Nov. 28, 1858, a ship called the Wanderer slipped silently into a coastal channel and unloaded its cargo of over 400 African slaves onto Jekyll Island, Georgia, thirty eight years after the African slave trade had been made illegal. It was the last ship ever to bring a cargo of African slaves to American soil. Built in 1856, the Wanderer began life as a luxury racing yacht, flying the pennant of the New York Yacht Club and cited as the successor to the famous yacht America. But within a year of its creation, the Wanderer was secretly converted into a slave ship, and, with the New York Yacht Club pennant still flying above as a diversion, sailed off to Africa. The Wanderer's mission was meant to be more than a slaving venture, however. It was designed by its radical conspirators to defy the federal government and speed the nation's descent into civil war. The New York Times first reported the story as a hoax; however, as groups of Africans began to appear in the small towns surrounding Savannah, the story of the Wanderer began to leak out; igniting a fire of protest and debate that made headlines throughout the nation and across the Atlantic. As the story shifts between Savannah, Jekyll Island, the Congo River, London, and New York City, the Wanderer's tale is played out in heated Southern courtrooms, the offices of the New York Times, The White House, the slave markets of Africa and some of the most charming homes Southern royalty had to offer. In a gripping account of the high seas and the high life in New York and Savannah, Erik Calonius brings to light one of the most important and little remembered stories of the Civil War period.
Summary Of John Harris S The Last Slave Ships
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Author : Milkyway Media
language : en
Publisher: Milkyway Media
Release Date : 2022-05-04
Summary Of John Harris S The Last Slave Ships written by Milkyway Media and has been published by Milkyway Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-04 with History categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The illegal slave trade was banned by every major power in the mid1800s. But some countries, including the United States, had strong interests in permitting the trade to continue, despite its illegality. #2 The United States and the traffickers who would come to operate from its ports were intimately connected to a much broader Atlantic story that would shape America’s engagement in the trade in years to come. #3 The British were the first to permanently end their trade in 1807, and they were the main force behind a network of international slave trade courts known as Courts of Mixed Commission, which were established to adjudicate violations of slave trading treaties. #4 The United States was also a young republic when it took action against the slave trade. In 1787, the U. S. Constitution permitted the importation of slaves for another twenty years, after which Congress would have the authority to end the traffic completely if it wished.
Cudjo S Own Story Of The Last African Slaver
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Author : Zora Neale Hurston
language : en
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Release Date : 2022-11-03
Cudjo S Own Story Of The Last African Slaver written by Zora Neale Hurston and has been published by Martino Fine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
2022 Hardcover Reprint of the 1927 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Roughly 60 years after the abolition of slavery, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made an incredible connection: She located one of the last surviving captives of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States. Hurston, a known figure of the Harlem Renaissance who would later write the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, conducted interviews with the survivor but struggled to publish them as a book in the early 1930s. In fact, they were only released to the public in a book called Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" that came out on May 8, 2018. Reprinted here is the original article outlining Hurston's discovery. It is also, perhaps, Hurston's first published work. Originally published in The Journal of Negro History, Volume 12, Number 4 October 1, 1927.
Survivors The Lost Stories Of The Last Captives Of The Atlantic Slave Trade
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Author : Hannah Durkin
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2024-01-18
Survivors The Lost Stories Of The Last Captives Of The Atlantic Slave Trade written by Hannah Durkin and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-18 with Social Science categories.
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Summary Of John Harris S The Last Slave Ships
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-03-22T22:59:00Z
Summary Of John Harris S The Last Slave Ships written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-22T22:59:00Z with History categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The illegal slave trade was banned by every major power in the mid-1800s. But some countries, including the United States, had strong interests in permitting the trade to continue, despite its illegality. #2 The United States and the traffickers who would come to operate from its ports were intimately connected to a much broader Atlantic story that would shape America’s engagement in the trade in years to come. #3 The British were the first to permanently end their trade in 1807, and they were the main force behind a network of international slave trade courts known as Courts of Mixed Commission, which were established to adjudicate violations of slave trading treaties. #4 The United States was also a young republic when it took action against the slave trade. In 1787, the U. S. Constitution permitted the importation of slaves for another twenty years, after which Congress would have the authority to end the traffic completely if it wished.
The Slave Ship Fredensborg
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Author : Leif Svalesen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Slave Ship Fredensborg written by Leif Svalesen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Shipwrecks categories.
"This is an illustrated story of a typical slave ship and its last voyage on the triangular trade between Denmark-Norway, the Gold Coast in Africa, and the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix. The wreck of the Fredensborg was discovered off the coast of Norway in 1974, more than 200 years after it sank in 1768. By examining the wreckage and surviving written sources (including the ship captain's log), Svalesen, diver and author, has reconstructed the Fredensborg's journey in detail.