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

Authors

Eric Love

ISBN

9780195311044

Price

$30.00 hardcover

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Abstract

The Illicit Slave Trade

The last Africans brought to the United States as slaves, Sylviane Diouf tells us, arrived in July 1860, on the eve of the Civil War and fifty-two years after the United States Congress prohibited their legal importation. This mission was the brainchild of Timothy M....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.9.4.6

Recommended Citation

Love, Eric (2007) "Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 9 : Iss. 4 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.9.4.6
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol9/iss4/6