Sylviane A Diouf

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1) Dreams of Africa in Alabama: the slave ship Clotilda and the story of the last Africans brought to America

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Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860 under cover of night, recounting their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describing 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....

2) Growing up in slavery

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Diouf, Sylviane A

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[2001]

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Examines what life was like for children who grew up as slaves in the United States, describing the conditions in which they lived, the work they did, how they were educated, and their efforts to obtain freedom.