Charles Waters

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African TownPaperback, 24 January 2023

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Reading Age
Ages: 12
Grade Levels
7
Print Length
464 pages
Language
English
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Date Published
24 Jan 2023
ISBN-10
0593322908
ISBN-13
9780593322901

Description

Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse.

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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.

Product Details

Audience:
Ages: 12
Authors:
Charles WatersIrene Latham
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
24 January 2023
Dimensions:
20.8 x 13.79 x 3 cm
Educational Level:
Grade Levels: 7
Genre:
African American
ISBN-10:
0593322908
ISBN-13:
9780593322901
Language:
English
Pages:
464
Weight:
399.16 gm

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