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Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America Audiobook, by Sylviane A. Diouf Play Audiobook Sample

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America Audiobook

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Read By: Allyson Johnson Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781515943945

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

19

Longest Chapter Length:

59:28 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

08:29 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

40:26 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda, to Africa, on a bet that he could "bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses." He won the bet.

This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describes their experience of slavery alongside American-born enslaved men and women. After emancipation, the group reunited from various plantations, bought land, and founded their own settlement, known as African Town. They ruled it according to customary African laws, spoke their own regional language and, when giving interviews, insisted that writers use their African names so that their families would know that they were still alive.

The last survivor of the Clotilda died in 1935, but African Town is still home to a community of Clotilda descendants. The original publication of Dreams of Africa in Alabama marked the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

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About Allyson Johnson

Allyson Johnson is an actress and singer who began performing at age twelve as coanchor of Bubble Gum Digest, for which she won an Emmy. After earning a degree in psychology from Brown University, she moved to New York where she became a social worker before shifting to a career in television and radio. Johnson has recorded countless commercials, promos, audiobooks, narrations, and animation series.