{"product_id":"survivors-the-lost-stories-of-the-last-captives-of-the-atlantic-slave-trade-9780008446536","title":"Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hannah Durkin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWATERSTONES: JANUARY’S BEST BOOKS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBBC: BOOK HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'GRIPPING' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eClotilda\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eClotilda\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860 – more than half a century after the passage of a federal law banning the importation of captive Africans, and nine months before the beginning of the Civil War. The last of its survivors lived well into the twentieth century. They were the last witnesses to the final act of a terrible and significant period in world history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this epic work, Dr. Hannah Durkin tells the stories of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eClotilda’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 110 captives, drawing on her intensive archival, historical, and sociological research. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSurvivors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows their lives from their kidnappings in what is modern-day Nigeria through a terrifying 45-day journey across the Middle Passage; from the subsequent sale of the ship’s 103 surviving children and young people into slavery across Alabama to the dawn of the Civil Rights movement in Selma; from the foundation of an all-Black African Town (later Africatown) in Northern Mobile – an inspiration for writers of the Harlem Renaissance, including Zora Neale Hurston – to the foundation of the quilting community of Gee’s Bend – a Black artistic circle whose cultural influence remains enormous.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn astonishing, deeply compelling tapestry of history, biography and social commentary, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSurvivors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a tour de force that deepens our knowledge and understanding of the Atlantic slave trade and its far-reaching influence on life today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45848529240215,"sku":"9780008446536","price":1307.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780008446536.webp?v=1769298141","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/survivors-the-lost-stories-of-the-last-captives-of-the-atlantic-slave-trade-9780008446536","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}