African Town
This book is a remainder. It is brand new and unread but the cover may have stickers from other retailers or a small line or dot on the outside, indicating that the book was returned unsold from a store to the publisher and sold to us from a remainder list. Remainder opportunities allow us to make terrific titles available to you at especially deep discounts, increasing our ability to provide a wide array of books at the lowest possible cost.
Inspired by the true story of the last enslaved Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse.
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 included 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.
| SKU | 133513 |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9780593322888 |
| Language | English |
| Page Count | 448 |
| Product Type | Hardcover Books |
| Book Type | Young Adult Novels |
| Additional Contributor | Irene Latham |
| Primary Contributor | Charles Waters |
| Age Groups | Ages 13 to 15, Ages 16 to 18 |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers |