| Title | : | The Last Slave Ship |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Zora Neale Hurston |
| Release | : | 2023-04-18 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Social Science, Books, Nonfiction, History |
| Size | : | 266581 |
| At low tide the hull of the Clotilde can be seen a little even now, in the marsh of Bayou Corne, in Alabama, where she was scuttled and sunk. She was the last ship to bring a cargo of “black ivory” to the United States—stealing into Mobile Bay on a sultry night in August, 1859, only two years before Abraham Lincoln was elected and only five years before Emancipation. The progeny of those last-minute slaves today still live in Alabama, mostly in the untidy clapboard village of Plateau, long also known as African Town. |
