{"product_id":"9781567207668","title":"Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of Africatown, USA: Spirit of Our Ancestors","description":"Debates on reparations for slavery have emerged on national and international levels. However, much of the discourse centers on the \"legitimate\" slave trade. Few people are cognizant of the fact that the transatlantic slave trade consisted of both a \"legal\" trade and an illegal trade that began after January 1, 1808. Despite statutory prohibitions against slave smuggling, American citizens continued to smuggle African captives into the United States up and beyond the threshold of the Civil War. \u003ci\u003eThe Slave Ship\u003c\/i\u003e Clotilda \u003ci\u003eand the Making of AfricaTown, USA\u003c\/i\u003e is the only well-documented work of serious nonfiction that chronicles the transatlantic smuggling expedition of the slaver \u003ci\u003eClotilda\u003c\/i\u003e during the slave trade's illegal period, dramatizing the plight of her captives from the point of capture in the West African interior to the point of disembarkation in Mobile, Alabama in 1860, and tracing the specific means by which the captives triumphed over their tragedy.     \u003cp\u003eThirty members of that fateful cargo established AfricaTown in Alabama, where many of their descendants still live. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston interviewed Cudjo Kazoola, the last survivor of the \u003ci\u003eClotilda\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eThe Slave Ship\u003c\/i\u003e Clotilda \u003ci\u003eand the Making of AfricaTown, USA\u003c\/i\u003e Natalie S. Robertson uses ethnography, cartography, linguistics, and oral history to connect the story of the \u003ci\u003eClotilda\u003c\/i\u003e captives to their origins in Africa, through their ordeals on the middle passage, all the way to the issue of reparations in the present day. She incorporates indigenous African perspectives, Hurston's interviews, and sources such as the \u003ci\u003eClotilda's\u003c\/i\u003e log, meshing diverse voices into a narrative that reveals the centrality of slavery, Africanisms, and resistance in American culture even today.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ABC-CLIO, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174766002416,"sku":"9781567207668","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781567207668_p0.jpg?v=1763767651","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781567207668","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}